Vivienne Rebel joined the Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute in November of 2005 with major faculty responsibilities as a Principal Investigator in Hematologic Malignancies and Assistant Professor in the Department of Cellular and Structural Biology. She received her medical degree at the Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She completed her doctoral degree from Free University and the Terry Fox Laboratory in Vancouver, Canada. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Medical School at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she received the David Abraham Fellowship. She is currently an Instructor in the Department of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and the Department of Cancer Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Dr. Rebel’s research focuses on elucidating the molecular mechanisms that govern stem cell regulation in vivo. Knowledge about stem cell regulation may also benefit our understanding of cancer cell development.