Medical Instructor
Duke Univeristy
Pete Hendrickson, MD, PhD is a medical instructor at Duke University in the Department of Radiation Oncology. He obtained his MD and PhD degrees from the University of Utah and completed his graduate school work in Brad Carins’ lab studying the role of chromatin structure and remodeling in embryonic development and cancer. Following an internship in Internal Medicine, Pete completed residency in Radiation Oncology at Duke University in 2024. As a resident, Pete was elected to the ABR Leonard B. Holman Pathway during which he started a post-doctoral fellowship under Dr. David Kirsch and Dr. Kris Wood. His research is focused on rare subtypes of pediatric fusion-gene driven sarcomas which are highly understudied and largely inaccessible. In addition to developing novel genetically engineered mouse models of these cancers, his works uses CRISPR/Cas9 screens and high-throughput sequencing to identify, mechanistically dissect, and then translate novel genetic vulnerabilities into precision cancer therapies.
