Vincent Cryns
Position title: Professor of Medicine
Email: vlcryns@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-262-4786
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Education
Harvard Medical School - MD
Massachusetts General Hospital School - Internship in Internal Medicine
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Hanover, New Hampshire - Residency in Internal Medicine
Massachusetts General Hospital School - Clinical Fellowship in Medicine, Endocrine
Harvard Medical School - Research Fellow in Medicine
PubMed Publications
Departmental Website
Research Focus
Dr. Cryns’ research focuses on understanding the connections between metabolic stress and breast cancer in order to develop better diagnostic approaches and treatments for this disease. It has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Department of Defense, the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Susan G. Komen, and other foundations and agencies. Dr. Vincent Cryns is chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism within the Department of Medicine, the Marian A. and Rodney P. Burgenske Chair in Diabetes Research, and the co-leader of the Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP).
Dr. Cryns is a member of the Endocrine Society, the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and the American Association for Cancer Research. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and has received Best Doctors in America recognition. His work has been featured on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered,” O, the Oprah Magazine, ESPN, and Nature and Nature Reviews Cancer.
Trainees
Current MET students
- Noah Carrillo
- Trevor Wolfe
- Emma Pellegrino
- Dawn Gilyard
Past MET students
- Joni (Baker) Sedillo
- Brandon Bocanegra