Dr. Jason Ross is a physician-scientist in the Department of Radiation Oncology at Stanford University. He received his BS in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, where he conducted research in normal and cancer stem cell biology. He obtained his MD from Weill Cornell Medical College and his PhD from The Rockefeller University, where he studied breast cancer metastasis, as a member of the Tri-Institutional MD-PhD Program in New York City. He conducted postdoctoral research as a Kaplan Research Fellow with co-advisors Dr. Irving Weissman and Dr. Maximilian Diehn at Stanford University, where he studied hematopoietic stem cells and the influence of radiotherapy on the tumor-immune micro-environment. His laboratory studies normal, dysfunctional, and malignant stem cells in the context aging, cancer, and chronic disease.