Dr. Giannakis received his Honors Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Toronto and his M.D./Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics and Genomics at Washington University School of Medicine in Saint Louis. He was a medical resident at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a postdoctoral researcher at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and hematology-oncology fellow at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dr. Giannakis is a physician-scientist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Dr. Giannakis has an active clinic caring for patients with gastrointestinal cancers and his laboratory studies the genomics, immunogenomics, molecular epidemiology and tumor microenvironment of colorectal cancer using patient-derived biospecimens and pre-clinical models towards novel preventive and therapeutic approaches for patients with this disease.