Research Fellow

Justin Becker, MD, PhD

Justin Becker is a medical oncology fellow at Mass General and Dana-Farber. He completed his MD and PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, where his graduate work with Kenneth Zaret focused on the organization of human heterochromatin and its role in maintaining cell identity. Justin is currently a physician at Mass General, where he completed his internal medicine residency and now sees patients with lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies. He joined the Bernstein lab in 2021 as a research fellow, with focus on the regulation of transposable elements and their dynamic activities in cancer.