Ramon Jin, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
- Phone: 314-273-3073
- Fax: 314-362-7086
- Email: jinr@nospam.wustl.edu
Address:
Division of Oncology
Mail Stop 8124-0086-09
Washington University
660 South Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110
9th Floor Clinical Science Research Building (office)
Admin:
Chad Benson
bchad@wustl.edu
- Gastroesophageal Cancers
- Barrett’s esophagus
- Upper GI metaplasias
- Cancer initiation
- Transcription factors
- Organoids
- Developmental Biology
I am an oncologist who treats gastroesophageal cancer patients in the clinic, and studies gastroesophageal cancers in the research lab. Specifically, I am interested in precursor conditions or metaplasias in the stomach and esophagus (i.e Barrett’s esophagus) as these lesions are key to understanding the formation of gastroesophageal adenocarcinomas. These precancerous lesions oftentimes reflect an aberrant developmental process with loss of normal upper GI transcriptional programming and a switch to an intestinal differentiation process. My research utilizes novel genetic mouse models, human patient derived organoids, and an integrative multi-omics approach to elucidate the critical molecular steps that occur during upper GI metaplasia development. I believe that if we better understand why and how these precancerous conditions develop, then we can possibly reverse these conditions to prevent them from ever progressing to cancers. I am committed to not only understanding the basic science of gastroesophageal cancers, but also, and more importantly, taking new discoveries and translating them into real improvements in the way we treat gastroesophageal cancer patients.
Biosketch
Education
- 2015-2006: MD, PhD (MSTP), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
- 2006-2002: BS, Biology (Summa cum laude), Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Post-Graduate Training
- 2021-2017: Hematology-Oncology Fellowship (PSTP), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
- 2017-2015: Internal Medicine Residency (PSTP), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Academic Positions
- present-2024: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Section of Medical Oncology, St. Louis, MO
- 2024-2021: Instructor of Medicine, Section of Hematology/Oncology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
Board Certification
- present-2021: ABIM Medical Oncology Board Certified
- present-2018: ABIM Board Certified
Honors & Awards
- 2029-2024: 1K08DK139376-01, NIH Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career Development Award
- 2024-2021: Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program (PRCRP) award, US Department of Defense
- 2023: Pilot/Feasibility Program Award, Texas Medical Center Digestive Diseases Center
- 2023: Chao Physician-Scientist Award, Baylor College of Medicine
- 2023: Eastern Alliance DDRCC Exchange Program at Johns Hopkins DDRCC, Eastern Alliance DDRCC
- 2022-2019: Developmental Research Program Award, Barrett’s Esophagus Translational Research Network (BETRNet)
- 2021: Conquer Cancer Arnoldus Goudsmit Endowed Young Investigator Award, Conquer Cancer, the ASCO Foundation
- 2021: Poster of Distinction 05/2021 Digestive Disease Week 2021, AGA
- 2020: Scholarship Award, Keystone Symposia Tissue Plasticity: Preservation and Alteration of Cellular Identity
- 2020: COVID-19 Rapid Response Research Award, AGA Research Foundation
- 2020: Pilot & Feasibility Program Award, Washington University Digestive Disease Research Core Center
- 2020: Conquer Cancer Merit Award, Page 2 of 5 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
- 2019: Knowlton Incentive for Excellence Award, Barnes-Jewish Hospital
- 2019: Selected Attendee, AACR Molecular Biology in Clinical Oncology Workshop
- 2012: Travel Award, ASCI/AAP/APSA Annual Meeting
- 2009: Travel Award, FASEB GI Tract XII: The Molecular and Integrative Basis for GI Development, Homeostasis and Disease
- 2006-2002: Trustees’ Scholarship Award, Case Western Reserve University