His research focuses on cancer genetics.Dr. Bunz serves as the director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Cell Imaging Core Facility and the co-director for the Laboratory Training Program in Radiation Oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.His team is engaged in studying the signaling molecules and pathways that are activated by DNA damage. The goal of this work is to better understand how current therapies work, and to develop new and improved cancer treatments.Dr. Bunz earned his M.D. and Ph.D. in the Medical Scientist Training Program at State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook. He completed postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins and Howard Hughes Medical Institution.