David Potter, MD, PhD

David A. Potter, M.D., Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine.  After undergraduate studies in biology at M.I.T., he received the M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University.  He trained in Internal Medicine at Stanford University Medical Center, and in Hematology and Oncology at Tufts-New England Medical Center.  He performed post-doctoral studies at the M.I.T. Center for Cancer Research.  He was on the faculty at Tufts University, the Indiana University Cancer Center and moved to The University of Minnesota in 2006, where he is a member of the Breast Cancer Program at the University of Minnesota Cancer Center.

Dr. Potter’s research interests include: the roles of calpain proteases in cancer, the roles of heat shock protein 90 in breast cancer, and translational breast cancer clinical trials.