Brenda Weigel, MD, MSc

Brenda Weigel is the Division Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Weigel is a professor cross appointed at the Masonic Cancer Center, UMN and Department of Pediatrics. As a pediatric oncologist, Brenda Weigel develops new therapies for children with cancer in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Minnesota, nationally and internationally. She chairs the Children's Oncology Groups Developmental Therapeutics Committee and the National Cancer Institute's supported Pediatric Experimental Therapeutic Clinical Trial Network. She specializes in seeing children for neuroblastoma, pediatric leukemia, pediatric osteosarcoma, pediatric solid tumors, soft tissue sarcoma and vascular birthmarks. She has been named a “Top Doctor” by Minnesota Monthly Magazine and Mpls. St. Paul Magazine multiple times. Dr. Weigel holds the Lehman/CCRF Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cancer.