Cancer Biology
The following labs within the Biomedical and Translational Sciences department have a research area of focus in cancer biology:
Marc Antonyak, PhD
Associate Research Professor
Cerione Lab
cell signaling, extracellular vesicles, cancer metabolism, tumor microenvironment, and senescence
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
Assistant Professor
Dongre Lab
immune checkpoint blockade therapy, tumor microenvironment, epithelial-mesenchymal plasticity, cancer immunology, breast cancer
Gerald Duhamel, DVM, PhD, DACVP
Professor of Anatomic Pathology
comparative pathology, digestive system pathophysiology, gastroenterology, intestinal lymphatic disorders
Jacquelyn Evans, PhD
Assistant Professor
Evans Lab
comparative genetics, canine, gastric cancer, hereditary disease, genomics of complex traits
Andrea Flesken-Nikitin, PhD
Assistant Research Professor
Nikitin Lab
stem cell niches, tissue microenvironment, ovarian cancer initiation, mouse models
Saki Ichikawa, PhD
Assistant Professor
Ichikawa Lab
chemical biology, probe development, post-translational modifications, E3 ubiquitin ligases, stress responses
Andrew Miller, DVM, DACVP
Adjunct Associate Professor
veterinary disease, neuropathology, glioma, meningioma, oncopathology
Alexander Nikitin, MD, PhD
Professor of Pathology
Nikitin Lab
cancer, comparative pathology, mouse models, female reproductive tract, stem cells
Richa Sardana, PhD
Assistant Professor
Sardana Lab
protein quality control, protein trafficking, lysosome, protein degradation, membrane protein recycling
John Schimenti, PhD
James Law Professor of Genetics
Schimenti Lab
reproductive genetics, genome maintenance mechanisms, cancer genetics, meiosis, infertility and reproductive aging
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., PhD
Assistant Professor
Simmons Lab
cancer, immunometabolism, lipid, bioprinting, microenvironment
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
Professor of Molecular Genetics
Senior Associate Dean, Graduate School
Weiss Lab
DNA damage, genomic instability, meiosis, cancer metabolism, mouse models of cancer
Andrew White, PhD
Associate Professor
White Lab
melanoma, melanocyte, tumor microenvironment, stem cell
Andrew Yen, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Yen Lab
leukemia, retinoic acid, signaling, cell cycle, cell differentiation
