Faculty Directory – Cancer Biology
Faculty Name | Department | Research Topics |
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Elizaveta Benevolenskaya | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | The role of tumor suppressor pRB in differentiation through epigenetic mechanisms such as regulating histone demethylases. |
Jonathan Coloff | Physiology and Biophysics |
Alan M. Diamond | Pathology | Role of selenium containing proteins in prostate cancer risk and outcome |
Jonna Frasor | Physiology and Biophysics | Endocrinology, hormone receptors, cancer therapeutics, |
Maxim Frolov | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Retinoblastoma and Hippo tumor suppressor pathways, Single cell genomics and Cell Atlas |
Peter H. Gann | Pathology | Intratumoral heterogeneity in breast cancer, Racial disparity in prostate cancer |
Paul Grippo | Gastroenterology and Hepatology | Cell signals, their interplay with fatty acids and overall impact on cancer |
Nissim Hay | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Emphasis on the PI3K/Akt/mTOR signaling and cancer metabolism both at the cellular and organismal levels using mouse models of cancer. |
Nao Ikegaki | Anatomy and Cell Biology | Neuroblastoma pathogenesis, MYC family proteins |
Barbara Jung | Gastroenterology and Hepatology |
Jiyeon Kim | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Investigating correlation between oncogenotypes and metabolic reprogramming, and identifying metabolic vulnerabilities. |
Jan K. Kitajewski | Physiology and Biophysics | Vascular Biology, Angiogenesis, Tumor Microenvironment, |
Shafi Kuchay | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of protein degradation at cellular membranes via ubiquitylation. |
Asrar B Malik | Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology | I study mechanisms of inflammation that underlie cardiovascular diseases . I challenge my trainees is to ask transformational questions. |
Alexandra Naba | Physiology and Biophysics | My lab uses cutting-edge proteomics and bioinformatics to study the role of the extracellular matrix in development, health, and cancer. |
Toru Nakamura | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Regulation of telomere maintenance mechanism |
Natalia Nieto | Pathology | Liver, fibrosis, alcoholic liver disease, cancer |
Larisa Nonn | Pathology | Prostate cancer, vitamin D, microRNA, health disparities |
Ian Papautsky | Bio-Engineering | Advanced Design & Manufacturing of Integrated Microfluidics |
Bellur S. Prabhakar | Microbiology and Immunology | Induction of tolerance to treat autoimmune diseases; Cancer biology; MADD function in Anaplastic Thyroid cancer. |
Ajay Rana | Surgery |
Basabi Rana | Surgery |
Pradip Raychaudhuri | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
Angela Tyner | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | Epithelial cell biology, tyrosine kinase signaling, colon, breast, prostate cancer |
Donald Vander Griend | Pathology | Stem cell and developmental transcription factors involved in prostate development, regeneration, hyperplasia, and prostate cancer. |
Xiaowei Wang | Pharmacology and Regenerative Medicine, Bioengineering | miRNAs are small noncoding RNAs that regulate thousands of genes. We combine computational and experimental methods for integrative analysis of miRNA functions |
Sang-Oh Yoon | Physiology and Biophysics | Regulation and functions of mTOR/Akt and Ras/Raf signaling networks in cancer, anti-cancer drug resistance mechanism and overcoming strategies, mRNA translation. |
Vadim Gaponenko | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics | We are interested in understanding how protein molecules acquire and perform their function. Functional characteristics of protein molecules are encoded in their structure and are revealed in their interactions with other molecules. A multidisciplinary effort to characterize these interactions in living cells and the ways of their modulation through conformational flexibility will allow efficient therapeutic intervention and engineering of novel molecular machines. |