Sharon Plon
MD, PhDDr. Sharon Plon is a board-certified medical geneticist and a longstanding cancer genetics researcher identifying new cancer susceptibility genes and studying the implementation of genomic testing in medicine.
Dr. Plon holds the Dan L .Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center Professorship at Baylor College of Medicine and serves as principal investigator (PI) with Donald (Will) Parsons and Amy McGuire on the National Human Genome Research Institute/National Cancer Institute (NCI)-funded Texas KidsCanSeq, a multi-institutional trial that studies the incorporation of CLIA clinical genome-scale exome sequencing into the care of childhood cancer patients in the diverse patient populations in Texas.
Since 2013, Dr. Plon has served as a PI of the Clinical Genome (ClinGen) Resource and co-chairs the ClinGen hereditary cancer effort. She also co-chairs the germline reporting effort of the national NCI/Children’s Oncology Group Pediatric MATCH Precision Oncology trial.
Professor
Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, WA
Clinical Fellowship, University of Washington Affiliate Hospitals
Seattle, WA
Residency, University of Washington Affiliate Hospitals
Seattle, WA
MD, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
PhD, Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Clinical Genetics
American Board of Medical Genetics