Adam Lerner, MD

Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Lerner is a Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine (BUSM) and a medical oncologist at Boston Medical Center (BMC). He received his MD from Yale School of Medicine, followed by an internal medicine residency at Boston City Hospital. He did his fellowship in Medical Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, and subsequently remained there while carrying out research in the cellular and molecular biology of T lymphocytes. In 1996, he joined the Hematology/Oncology Section at Boston Medical Center. His laboratory research has focused in two areas: 1) The therapeutic potential of cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase inhibitors in lymphoid malignancies; 2) The mechanism by which a novel adapter protein (BCAR3/ AND-34) modulates focal adhesion complex signaling in mesenchymal, epithelial and hematopoietic cells. Clinically, Dr. Lerner cares for patients with hematologic malignancies, cutaneous malignancies and sarcomas.

Expertise includes: CLL; Leukemia; Lymphoid malignancies; Sarcoma; Breast cancer; cAMP signaling.

Publications

  • Published 9/16/2025

    Parekh A, Lerner A, Thomasson RR, Sloan JM. Incidence of Typical Neutrophil Count With Fy(a-b-) Status Among Hematology Referrals for Neutropenia at an Urban Safety-Net Hospital. Adv Hematol. 2025; 2025:2488148. PMID: 40994727.

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  • Published 9/3/2025

    Ferri GM, Frank A, Li D, Anand P, Abdallah M, Avalone V, Mark Sloan J, Sanchorawala V, Lerner A, Szalat RE, Petrocca F, Edwards CV, Bell BN. When ICAN(S) Becomes ICAN'T: Clinician and Staff Perspectives on In-Hospital Neurotoxicity Grading. Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk. 2025 Sep 03. PMID: 41015712.

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  • Published 12/10/2024

    Abdallah M, Arters F, Patel J, Edwards C, Lerner A, Petrocca F, Dockerty M, Fuller B, Godfrey A, Staron A, Sanchorawala V, Sloan JM, Bertrand K, Szalat R. Febrile neutropenia in patients with Duffy-null-associated neutrophil counts and multiple myeloma or AL amyloidosis. Blood Adv. 2024 Dec 10; 8(23):5935-5938. PMID: 39348709.

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  • Published 6/6/2023

    Halpin M, Lerner A, Sagar M, Govender P, Shah B, Weinberg J, Sarosiek S, Sloan JM. A prospective, single-center, randomized phase 2 trial of etoposide in severe COVID-19. medRxiv. 2023 Jun 06. PMID: 37333402.

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  • Published 10/17/2022

    Ravina K, Windermere SA, Zhao Q, Lerner A, Dyer M, Upadhyay U, Jha RT. Primary intracranial extraosseous Ewing's sarcoma of the skull base in an elderly adult: illustrative case. J Neurosurg Case Lessons. 2022 Oct 17; 4(16). PMID: 36254353.

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Other Positions

  • Professor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
  • Member, BU-BMC Cancer Center
    Boston University
  • Member, Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
    Boston University
  • Member, Genome Science Institute
    Boston University
  • Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
    Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences

Websites

Education

  • Yale University School of Medicine, MD
  • Amherst College, AB

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