Training Grants

Basic Medical Research Training Oncology Training Faculty

Basic Medical Research Training in Oncology Training Faculty

  • Olopade, Olufunmilayo: Breast cancer; cancer risk assessment; cancer prevention
  • Ahsan, Habibul: Understanding of environmental and genetic factors and their interplay in cancer
  • Applebaum, Mark: Gene regulation and therapeutic targets in neuroblastoma
  • Arora, Vineet: Understanding and improving the learning environment for medical trainees and the quality and safety of care delivered to hospitalized patients
  • Aschebrook-Kilfoy, Briseis: Environmental lifestyle, and genetic factors in the development of cancer and chronic disease
  • Becker, Lev: Using multi-disease approach to develop a comprehensive understanding of macrophage biology, and translating this mechanistic understanding to develop therapeutics across a spectrum of human disease.
  • Beyer, Eric: Cell and molecular biology of intercellular communication, specifically the direct exchange of ions and small molecules between cells through connexins channels.
  • Bishop, Michael: Hematologic malignancies
  • Bissonnette, Mark: Chemoprevention of colon cancer
  • Brady, Matthew: Adipocyte biology, energy metabolism and insulin sensitivity
  • Chen, Jing: Translational research of human cancers, with a particular focus on signaling basis underlying cancer metabolism
  • Chen, Mengjie: Statistical methods to address the challenges those technologies have posed for data analysis and interpretation
  • Chiu, Brian: Causes and outcomes of lymphoma and multiple myeloma in racial/ethnic and geographic diverse population 
  • Clark, Marcus: Arthritis and autoimmune diseases
  • Cohn, Susan: Pediatric Cancers
  • DeJong, Jill: Hematopoietic stem cells and genetic risks for hematologic malignancy
  • Dignam, James: Biostatistics
  • Dolan, M. Eileen: Drug Development
  • Gajewski, Thomas: Studying basic aspects of T cell activation and regulation, toward preclinical models of anti-tumor immunity for clinical trials for patients with melanoma
  • Gao, Gumin: Biostatistics and Cancer Risk
  • Gilad, Yoav: Genomic research, developing and applying the latest technology and protocols to the study of regulatory evolution in humans and other primates
  • Glick, Benjamin: Understanding the processes that generate compartments of the secretory pathway, including ER exit sites and the cisternae of the Golgi apparatus 
  • Greene, Geoffrey: To understand the nature and function of steroid receptors, but also their measurement and utility in breast cancer
  • Grossman, Robert : Data science, machine learning, data intensive computing, cancer genomics, and bioinformatics
  • Hahn, Olwen: Treatment of breast and genitourinary malignancies
  • He, Chuan: Chemical biology, nucleic acid chemistry and biology, epigenetics, and bioinorganic chemistry
  • Hedeker, Donald: Advanced statistical models, longitudinal data analysis
  • Huo, Dezheng: Etiology and outcome of cancer, in particular breast cancer Genetic Epidemiology Health Disparities
  • Izumchenko, Evgeny: Defining the drivers underlying the premalignant progression and early immune evasion
  • Jabri, Bana: Investigating the mechanisms underlying the development of complex inflammatory disorders 
  • Jakubowiak, Andrzej: Multiple myeloma
  • Karczmar, Gregory: Functional and anatomic magnetic resonance imaging
  • Kee, Barbara: Mechanisms of lymphocyte development
  • Kindler, Hedy: GI Stromal Tumors​
  • Kline, Justin: Immunology
  • Kron, Stephen: Dissecting DNA Damage Response In Cancer and Normal Tissue as a Route to Enhancing the Efficacy of Genotoxic Therapy
  • Kupfer, Sonia: Genomics, GI cancers and health disparities
  • Lengyel, Ernst: Gynecologic malignancies specifically, ovarian, cervical and endometrial cancers
  • Lindau, Stacy: Female sexual function in the context of aging, cancer
  • Macleod, Kay: Regulation of Cell Cycle Checkpoints and Cell Death by the RB Tumor Suppressor in Response to Oxidative Stress and DNA Damage
  • McNerney, Megan: Understanding the underlying genomic abnormalities in high-risk myeloid neoplasms to identify new treatment avenues
  • Meltzer, David: Health economics and outcomes research
  • Moellering, Raymond: Application of chemical biology, synthetic chemistry, and proteomics to solve challenging problems in biology and human health
  • Mutlu, Gokhan: Lung injury, inflammation, repair and fibrosis
  • Nanda, Rita: Novel treatment of breast cancer​
  • Oakes, Scott: Mechanistically understanding and drugging key cell stress pathways in cancer, cell degeneration, and inflammatory diseases
  • Odenike, Olatoyosi: Developing novel therapeutic agents for acute and chronic leukemias and chronic myeloproliferative diseases
  • O'Donnell, Peter: Genitourinary malignancies; Discovery and implementation of pharmacogenomic determinants governing drug response and toxicity, especially in bladder cancer
  • Odunsi, Adekunle: Immunotherapy and vaccine therapy for cancer
  • Pamer, Eric: Investigating intestinal microbiota-mediated defense against infections caused by Vancomycin-resistance Enterococcus faecium (VRE), Clostridioides difficile and Klebsiella pneumoniae
  • Pan, Tao: Functional genomics of biology of tRNA, and the dynamic epitranscriptome of RNA modifications
  • Patnaik, Akash: Genitourinary Oncology
  • Pearson, Alexander: Machine learning for prognostic subset creation in cancer data; mathematical systems biology for combination cancer treatment optimization
  • Pierce, Brandon: Factors in cancer risk and prognosis
  • Rosner, Marsha: To understand fundamental signaling mechanisms leading to the generation of tumor cells and their progression to metastatic disease, particularly in triple-negative breast cancer that lacks targeted therapies
  • Roux, Benoit: Understanding the structure and function of ion channels
  • Savage, Peter: To understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating immune tolerance and the immune response to cancer
  • Schreiber, Hans: Tumor Immunology; Tumor Progression, Tumor -Specific T -cell Clones; Characterization of Tumor Variants; Molecular Genetics of Tumor Antigens
  • Shogan, Benjamin: Understanding how intestinal bacteria, influenced by surgery can effect surgical and oncological outcomes
  • Smith, Sonali: Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma
  • Solway, Julian: Asthma, Lung Diseases
  • Stadler, Walter: GU Oncology
  • Stock, Wendy: Leukemia
  • Sweis, Randy: Modulating the tumor microenvironment to facilitate anti-tumor immune responses
  • Thirman, Michael: Role of MLL and ELL in the development of acute leukemia
  • Vokes, Everett: Head and Neck Cancer
  • Volchenboum, Samuel: Biomedical informatics
  • Weichselbaum, Ralph: Head and Neck Cancer
  • Yamini, Bakhtiar: Neuro Oncology