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Jeff Boyd, Ph.D. Jeff Boyd, Ph.D., is the director of the Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute* at Memorial University Medical Center. He also oversees the development and operation of the laboratory and clinical research programs. He came to Savannah in 2006 from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. Dr. Boyd was a tenured member of the center and attending biologist in the departments of surgery and medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering. He also served as director of the gynecology and breast research laboratory (department of surgery) and director of the diagnostic molecular genetics laboratory (department of medicine). An internationally known and respected scientist in molecular cancer research, Dr. Boyd is one of the world’s top scientists in the study of the alterations in genes that influence the development of uterine, ovarian, and breast cancers. He pioneered the analysis of flaws in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes that are involved in hereditary ovarian and breast cancers. He is a member of numerous professional committees and has delivered more than 120 lectures at major academic medical centers throughout the world. Dr. Boyd has published more than 150 articles and serves as an ad hoc reviewer for 32 scientific journals. Dr. Boyd holds an undergraduate degree from Duke University, a Ph.D. in toxicology and biochemistry from North Carolina State University, and completed postdoctoral fellowships in environmental pathology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and molecular carcinogenesis at the National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. *The Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson Cancer Institute at Memorial University Medical Center is not affiliated with the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
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