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Barbara Fingleton, Ph.D.

Director, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
Associate Professor, Pharmacology
Associate Professor, Surgery


Barbara Fingleton Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Surgery, serves as Director of the Vanderbilt IGP.  Dr. Fingleton obtained her Ph.D. from Dublin City University in Ireland. She moved to the United States to do post-doctoral research at Vanderbilt, starting in 1997.  She now runs an active research program focused on understanding the process of metastasis in various cancers with the goal of developing new therapeutic targets.