Dr. Will Parsons is an instructor in oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a researcher at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.  He completed his residency in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins Hospital and fellowship in pediatric oncology at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins.

Dr. Parsons' long-term goal is to develop as an independent translational investigator in the molecular biology and treatment of brain tumors. He currently is undertaking a large scale genomic approach in collaboration with the Kinzler-Vogelstein lab at Johns Hopkins to sequence more than 15,000 genes from several cases of both glioblastoma multiforme and medulloblastoma.