Brynn B. Duncan, M.D.

After completing her undergraduate studies at Gettysburg College, Dr. Duncan spent two years as a post-baccalaureate researcher in the Pediatric Oncology Branch under the mentorship of Dr. Terry Fry, where she was first introduced to CAR T cells. She received her M.D. from Georgetown University School of Medicine in 2016 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Virginia in 2019. Dr. Duncan trained in pediatric hematology/oncology through the combined National Cancer Institute – Johns Hopkins University fellowship program and was Chief Fellow 2021-2022. During fellowship, she worked in the laboratory of Dr. Cynthia Dunbar in the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute studying CAR T cell biology with a focus on CAR T cell trafficking using the sodium-iodide symporter to allow for PET-based localization of CAR T cells in a nonhuman primate model. She was also an associate investigator in a clinical trial of eltrombopag for treatment of Diamond-Blackfan Anemia. She joined the Hematologic Malignancies Section in the Pediatric Oncology Branch as an Assistant Research Physician in early 2024.