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Cancer Biology

The following labs within the Biomedical Sciences department have a research area of focus in cancer 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, DVM

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

Kelly Hume, DVM, DACVIM
Adjunct Associate Professor

drug repurposing, chemosensitivity, DNA damage response, feline carcinoma and sarcoma, canine cancer

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

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, 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