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Cancer Biology

The following labs within the Biomedical and Translational Sciences department have a research area of focus in cancer biology:

Marc Antonyak

Marc Antonyak, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Cerione Lab

cell signaling, extracellular vesicles, cancer metabolism, tumor microenvironment, and senescence

Richard Cerione

Richard Cerione, PhD
Distinguished Professor of Arts and Science in Chemistry
Cerione Lab

cancer biology, embryonic stem cells, signal transduction, structural biology, and chemical biology

Anushka Dongre, PhD

Anushka Dongre, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dongre Lab

immune checkpoint blockade therapy, tumor microenvironment, epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity, cancer immunology, breast cancer

Gerald Duhamel

Gerald Duhamel, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor of Anatomic Pathology

comparative pathology, digestive system pathophysiology, gastroenterology, intestinal lymphatic disorders

Jacquelyn Evans, PhD

Jacquelyn Evans, PhD
Assistant Professor
Evans Lab

comparative genetics, canine, gastric cancer, hereditary disease, genomics of complex traits

Andrea Flesken-Nikitin

Andrea Flesken-Nikitin, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Nikitin Lab

stem cell niches, tissue microenvironment, ovarian cancer initiation, mouse models

Saki Ichikawat

Saki Ichikawa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ichikawa Lab

chemical biology, probe development, post-translational modifications, E3 ubiquitin ligases, stress responses

Andrew Miller

Andrew Miller, DVM, DACVP
Adjunct Associate Professor

veterinary disease, neuropathology, glioma, meningioma, oncopathology

Alexander Nikitin

Alexander Nikitin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Nikitin Lab

cancer, comparative pathology, mouse models, female reproductive tract, stem cells

Richa Sardana

Richa Sardana, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sardana Lab

protein quality control, protein trafficking, lysosome, protein degradation, membrane protein recycling

John Schimenti

John Schimenti, PhD
James Law Professor of Genetics
Schimenti Lab

reproductive genetics, genome maintenance mechanisms, cancer genetics, meiosis, infertility and reproductive aging

Praveen Sethupathy

Praveen Sethupathy, PhD
Professor of Physiological Genomics
Chair
Sethupathy Lab

comparative intestinal physiology and disease, fibrolamellar carcinoma, gene regulation, microRNAs, functional genomics

Glenn Simmons Jr.

Glenn Simmons Jr., PhD
Assistant Professor
Simmons Lab

cancer, immunometabolism, lipid, bioprinting, microenvironment

Meng Wang, PhD

Meng Wang, MD, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Wang Lab

metabolism, oxidative and aldehyde-DNA damage, childhood leukemia syndromes, DNA damage-based cancer therapies

Robert Weiss, PhD

Robert Weiss, PhD
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate School
Weiss Lab

DNA damage, genomic instability, meiosis, cancer metabolism, mouse models of cancer

Andrew White

Andrew White, PhD
Associate Professor
White Lab

melanoma, melanocyte, tumor microenvironment, stem cell

Andrew Yen

Andrew Yen, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Yen Lab

leukemia, retinoic acid, signaling, cell cycle, cell differentiation