Academic Leadership

Office: BEB 101C

Nancy Klauber-DeMore, M.D. is the Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Co-Leader Developmental Cancer Therapeutics, Hollings Cancer Center and the BMW Endowed Chair in Cancer Research at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Klauber-DeMore has extensive research experience in developing new therapies for breast cancer that have led to clinical advances in patient care, particularly for those with metastatic disease. She has been a principal or co-investigator on more than 30 active and completed clinical trials and has contributed to five patents or patents pending. She is also developing novel surgical devices to aid in breast surgery.

Dr. DeMore is also a physician-scientist with extensive research experience in developing new therapies for breast cancer. For more than 25 years, she has investigated tumor angiogenesis. Her lab focuses on discovering novel factors that stimulate the growth of new capillary blood vessels that provide tumors with oxygen and nutrients with a goal of developing new drugs to block these factors, therefore inhibiting tumor growth.

Dr. DeMore received her medical degree from the University of Health Sciences/The Chicago Medical School. She then completed General Surgery Residency at Boston University, followed by a surgical research fellowship at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and a Surgical Oncology Fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.