Cancer Biology

Faculty Research Area(s)

Parminder Basran  		Radiation Dosimetry and Treatment Planning; Medical Image Processing and Analysis​; and Medical Physics Training and Education. I have keen interests in machine learning methods in radiation oncology, radiomics, and stereotactic ablative radiation therapies and hypo-fractionation.

Nicolas Buchon 		Host/microbe relationships and control of intestinal stem cell behavior in homeostasis and disease - lab

Margaret Bynoe 		Cellular and molecular medicine; infectious diseases; molecular basis of antigen-induced immune suppression; modulation of innate immune system response in immunity against cancer

James W. Casey 		Molecular virology; retrovirology

Richard A. Cerione 		Signal transduction growth factor receptors; protein structure; drug design and chemical biology; signaling cues that direct cell proliferation, differentiation and development - lab

Paula E. Cohen 		Etiology of spontaneous birth defects in mammals; mechanisms of meiotic recombination; DNA repair proteins in meiosis and recombination; germ cell development; ovarian development - lab

Ruth Collins 		Pharmacology; cancer cell biology; small GTPase regulation of intracellular traffic and cellular growth control - lab

Scott Coonrod 		Reproductive physiology; molecular and cellular physiology; epigenetic reprogramming during the egg-to-embryo transition; mechanisms by which specific histone modifications are dynamically regulated during hormone-dependent gene transcription in breast cancer cells

Brian R. Crane 		Metalloenzyme structure and catalysis; protein electron transfer; nitric oxide enzymology; bacterial chemotaxis; circadian clock photo sensors - lab

Charles Danko 		Medical genetics and genomics and cancer biology research

Matthew DeLisa 		Molecular biotechnology; protein biogenesis and folding pathways; protein engineering - lab

Gerald E. Duhamel 		Mechanisms of infectious diseases with particular emphasis on molecular mechanisms of bacterial infections in animal models of human diseases; host-pathogen relationships

Claudia Fischbach-Teschl 		Tissue-engineered model systems for analysis of microenvironmental conditions fundamental to cancer pathogenesis and therapy - lab

Kelly Hume 

Cancer biology; veterinary oncology; clinical oncology; molecular oncology; DNA damage; chemosensitivity and novel therapeutics

Shaoyi Jiang design and development of functional zwitterionic materials for biomedical and engineering applications

Patricia A. Johnson 		Endocrinology; reproductive biology


Gary Koretzky

Aims to better understand the signal transduction events that occur following engagement of the T cell antigen receptor; study more globally the molecular events important for immune cell development, differentiation and function


Natasza Kurpios 		Tissue morphogenesis; cell shape and architecture; organ development; gut morphogenesis; mammary gland biology; breast cancer - lab

Jan Lammerding 		Cellular biomechanics; mechanotransduction; cell migration; muscular dystrophy and cancer cell biology - lab

Cynthia Leifer 		Understanding innate immunity from the receptors that detect microbes to how innate immune cells react to changes in their environment during inflammatory processes - lab

Maurine Linder 		Regulation of cell signaling by protein lipidation

Sean P. McDonough 		Use of contemporary methods to explore lymphocyte function in spontaneous veterinary disease

Andrew Miller

Anatomic pathology; small and large animal neuropathology; CNS tumorigenesis; disease diagnostics; stem cell pathology - lab


Alexander Nikitin 		Stem cells and cancer; pathogenesis of ovarian and prostate cancers; modeling of human disease in genetically modified mice and human organoids - lab

Robert Oswald 		Ion channel receptor/ligand interactions; NMR and molecular dynamics; molecular neurobiology and biophysics; neurotransmitter receptors and signal transduction
Richa Sardana membrane protein trafficking and quality control mechanisms - lab

Luis Schang 		Role of cellular protein, lipids, and glycans play in viral infection

John Schimenti 		Genetics of reproduction and germ cell development; cancer genetics; meiosis; DNA repair; genome manipulation in mice; functional genomics - lab

Praveen Sethupathy

Functional genomics; gene regulation; molecular genetics; gastrointestinal physiology; stem cell biology; metabolic disease - lab


Carolyn Sevier 		Signaling of cellular oxidative stress; molecular mechanisms used by cellular pathways that sense and signal redox imbalances within the cell - lab
Marcus Smolka Cell signaling and genome maintenance; DNA replication stress; phosphproteomics

Tracy Stokol 		Hematopoietic and hemostatic disorders in animals; mechanisms of cancer metastasis - lab

Tudorita Tumbar 		Basic cellular and molecular mechanisms implicated in cell fate choice and stem cell activity within tissues - lab

Gerlinde Van de Walle 		Veterinary viral pathogenesis; mesenchymal stem cell biology and regenerative medicine; mammary stem cell biology and carcinogenesis - lab

Robert S. Weiss 		Molecular mechanisms for the maintenance of genomic stability; cellular responses to DNA damage; mouse models of human cancer - lab

Andrew C. White 		Cancer biology; stem cell biology; biochemistry and cell biology - lab

Andrew Yen 		Leukemia; cell growth and differentiation; oncogenes/genetics - lab