Our Faculty
Our Faculty
Nancy Zeleznik-Le, PhD
Chair; Professor
Cancer Biology; Medicine
Research Interests:
- MLL leukemias
- Hematopoiesis
- Chromatin-mediated gene regulation and epigenetics
Maurizio Bocchetta, PhD
Associate Professor
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- OTUD6B deubiquitinase
- MYC oncogene
- Lung adenocarcinoma
Mitchell F. Denning, PhD
Associate Dean for Graduate Education;
Professor Cancer Biology;
Molecular Pharmacology & Neuroscience
Research Interests:
- Keratinocyte and melanocyte biology
- Ultraviolet radiation induced skin carcinogenesis
- Protein kinase C signaling
Sean W. Fanning, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Breast cancer
- Nuclear receptors
- Drug resistance
- Structure-based drug discovery
Kimberly E. Foreman, PhD
Associate Professor
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Research training
- Medical education
- Education outcomes
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Irida Kastrati, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Breast cancer
- Selenoproteins
- Racial disparity
- Therapy targets in therapy resistance and recurrence
- Drug development
Steven Kregel, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Prostate cancer and urologic research
- Androgen receptor signaling
- Hormone therapies and resistance
- Tumor immune microenvironment
Phong T. Le, PhD
Professor
Microbiology & Immunology; Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- T-cell Development
- Thymic epithelial cell biology
- Exosomes
Michael Nishimura, PhD
Professor, Surgical Research; Cancer Biology
Associate Director, Cancer Center Translational Research
Program Director, Immunologic Therapeutics
Research Interests:
- Cancer immunology
- T cell receptor genetics, structure and function
- Chimeric antigen receptor functions
Clodia Osipo, PhD
Professor
Cancer Biology; Microbiology & Immunology
Research Interests:
- Breast cancer
- Cancer stem cells
- Notch signaling
Wei Qiu, PhD
Professor
Cancer Biology; Surgical Research
Research Interests:
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Tumor cell signaling pathways
- Mechanisms of therapeutic resistance in HCC
- Alcoholic liver disease
Jonathan Rennhack, PhD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Tumor Metastasis
- Tumor Microenvironment
- Early Onset Disease
Nan Sethakorn, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Hematology/Oncology; Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Non-small cell lung cancer
- Bone metastases
- Tumor microenvironment
- Resistance to targeted therapies
Ali Vaziri-Gohar, PHD
Assistant Professor
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- Pancreatic cancer
- Metabolic vulnerabilities in tumor microenvironment
- Metabolic regulation of redox homeostasis
- Metabolic dependencies of gene regulation
- Development of novel targeted therapies
- Drug resistance
Derek Wainwright, PhD
Associate Professor, Depts. of Cancer Biology (Primary) and Neurological Surgery (Adjunct)
Scientific Director, Brain Tumor Research
Program Leader, Cancer Biology & Therapeutics, Cardinal Berrnadin Cancer Center
Research Interests:
- Glioblastoma
- Cancer immunology and immunotherapy
- Aging and cancer
- Neuroimmunology
- Mechanisms of resistance to therapy for cancer
Jiwang Zhang, MD, PhD
Professor
Cancer Biology: Radiation Oncology
Research Interests:
- Hematopoiesis
- Stem cell self-renewal
- Bone marrow microenvironment
- Cell signaling
Manuel Diaz MD
Professor Emeritus
Cancer Biology
Research Interests:
- MLL and MLL fusion proteins
- Leukemogenesis