CANCER BIOLOGY

Faculty Research Interests

Cell Adhesion and Motility      Viral Genes in Cancer

Signal transduction Pathways in Cancer      Gene Regulation in Cancer

  
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    Cell adhesion and motility
Raymond Bergan, MD Therapeutic modulation of adhesion and motility in human prostate cells
Rex Chisholm, PhD Cell motility; cell movement during morphogenesis; myosin; dynein; molecular motors and disease
Yuanyi Feng, MD, PhD The role of scaffold proteins in embryonic morphogenesis and cancer
Vladimir Gelfand, PhD Cytoskeleton, microtubules, and intracellular transport
Robert Goldman, PhD Cell motility; structure and function of cytoplasmic filament systems
Cara Gottardi, PhD Roles for catenins and cadherins in cell adhesion
Kathleen Green, PhD Intercellular adhesion in differentiation, cancer, skin and heart disease
Sui Huang, PhD Function of perinucleolar compartment in cancer cells
Jonathan Jones, PhD Functional analyses of cell-matrix interactions
Geoffrey Kansas, PhD Molecular biology of leukocyte adhesion and migration
Brian Mitchell, PhD Basal body duplication and the generation of cilia planar polarity
Hidayatullah Munshi, MD Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) in metastasizing tumor cells
H. William Schnaper, MD Cell signal transduction in atherosclerosis and fibrogenesis
Ming Zhang, PhD Molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis and cancer metastasis
    Viral genes in cancer
Lou Laimins, PhD Human papillomaviruses and cervical cancer
Richard Longnecker, PhD Epstein-Barr virus transformation, latency, and entry
    Signal transduction pathways
Terry Barrett, MD Beta catenin signaling in intestinal stem cells
Markus Bredel, MD, PhD Human Brain Tumors: Unraveling Disease and Resistance Biology
Irina V. Budunova, MD, PhD Cell signaling and intercellular communications in skin tumorigenesis and development
Serdar Bulun, MD Estrogen metabolism in breast cancer, endometriosis, and uterine fibroids
Anjen Chenn, MD, PhD Regulation of Cell Fate and Proliferation in Mammalian CNS
Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD Molecular endocrinology of the prolactin receptor in breast cancer
Seth Corey, MD, MPH Role of Src family protein kinases in proliferation and cytoskeletal reorganization
Vincent Cryns, MD Caspase Signaling in Apoptosis
Ann Harris, PhD Chromatin Structure and the Regulation of Gene Expression; Pancreas Cancer
Xiaolin He, PhD Structural mechanisms of transmembrane signaling events in cancer
Jacqueline S. Jeruss, MD, PhD Signaling in Breast Cancer: Disease Development and Progression
William Karpus, PhD The role of chemokines and cytokines in autoimmunity
Khashayarsha Khazaie, PhD, DSc Immune Evasion and Inflammation in Cancer
Michael Klüppel, PhD Chondroitin sulfate in growth factor signaling, development and cancer
Jing Liu, PhD Signaling by JNK and NF-kB in cell death, inflammation and tumorigenesis
Nick Lu, PhD Glucocorticoid receptor in asthma, inflammation, and cancer
Puneet Opal, MD, PhD Cellular basis of neurodegeneration
Jill C. Pelling, PhD Chemoprevention; signal transduction in UV response; hypoxia in carcinogenesis
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD Signal transduction in malignant cells
Steven Rosen, MD Biologic therapies of cancer
Linda Van Eldik, PhD Brain inflammation, molecular glial biology, and neurodegenerative disorders
Olga Volpert, PhD Mechanism of angiogenesis inhibitors
D. Martin Watterson, PhD Signal Transduction, Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery
Teresa Woodruff, PhD Ovarian Follicle Growth during the Mammalian Reproductive Cycles
    Gene expression in normal and malignant cells
Debabrata Chakravarti, PhD Transcriptional regulation of tumor development and metastasis
Navdeep Chandel, PhD Tumor Cell Responses to Oxygen Deprivation
Chonghui Cheng, MD, PhD Alternative splicing in cancer development
John Crispino, PhD Transcriptional regulation of normal and malignant blood cell development
Elizabeth Eklund, MD Molecular biology of late myeloid differentiation
J. Julie Kim, PhD Molecular events in the endometrium during early pregnancy, endometriosis and endometrial cancer
Hiroaki Kiyokawa, MD, PhD Roles of cell cycle-regulatory proteins in differentiation, senescence and apoptosis
Steven Kosak, PhD Nuclear Form and Function during Cellular Differentiation and Disease
Jonathan Licht, MD Transcription factors disrupted in human cancer - Mechanism of action and targets
Yong-Chao Ma, PhD Cancer Stem Cells
Thomas McGarry, MD, PhD Unstable regulatory proteins
Alex Minella, MD Cell cycle control mechanisms in cancer
Christopher Payne, PhD Gene regulation in the male germline stem cell
Janardan Reddy, MD Molecular mechanisms of peroxisome nuclear receptor co-activators
Paul Schumacker, PhD Oxygen sensing and hypoxia in tumor angiogenesis
Hank Seifert, PhD Mechanisms of gene recombination in bacteria
Marcelo Soares, PhD Genomic instability, aberrant transcription and splicing in cancer
Warren Tourtellotte, MD, PhD Immediate early gene regulation and oncogenesis
Jindan Yu, MD, PhD Genetic and epigenetic pathways to prostate cancer

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