Adam Palmer

Adam Palmer is an Assistant Professor of Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research combines laboratory experiments, data analysis, and computer modeling to understand how combinations of cancer medicines work together, particularly curative treatments for aggressive lymphomas. Dr Palmer has developed computer models that predict the clinical effectiveness of drug combinations from how well the individual drugs work, and is now applying these methods to make combination therapies for blood cancers more effective and tolerable. Previously he completed undergraduate training in biochemistry, chemistry, and physics at the University of Adelaide, Australia, earned his PhD in Systems Biology from Harvard University studying antibiotic resistance, and conducted postdoctoral research on cancer pharmacology at Harvard Medical School.