Training Grants

MTCR Training Faculty

MTCR Training Faculty:

  • Kay Macleod: Autophagy and mitochondrial dysfunction in cancer progression and metastasis
  • Lev Becker: Macrophage function and therapeutic potential in human disease
  • Jing Chen: Signaling interplay between metabolic and cell signaling networks for a better understanding of cancer metabolism and improved clinical outcome
  • Bryan Dickinson: Synthetic chemistry, protein engineering, and molecular evolution to create molecules that measure and control biological systems
  • Eileen Dolan: Pharmacogenomics of anticancer agents
  • Brandon Faubert: How metabolic reprogramming – alterations of metabolic flux in malignant cells – supports cancer cell survival and growth
  • Tom Gajewski: Regulation of anti-tumor immunity
  • Margaret Gardel: How biophysical properties regulate cell behavior, particularly cell migration and adhesion
  • Geoffrey Greene: Estrogen receptor in breast cancer
  • Yu-Ying He: Genetic and environmental factors regulating skin cell transformation in cancer
  • Jun Huang: Single-cell imaging of immune cell function in cancer
  • Barbara Kee: Transcriptional control of innate and adaptive immune cell function in lymphoma genesis and leukemia
  • Steve Kron: DNA damage responses in cancer etiology and therapy
  • James LaBelle: Exploiting cell death pathways to treat cancer
  • Ernst Lengyel: Ovarian cancer etiology and treatment
  • Mark Lingen: Molecular pathogenesis of oral cancers
  • Yuxuan Phoenix Miao: Intimate dialogues between the barrier tissue stem cells and the immune system during both wound repair and cancer progression
  • Megan McNerney: Genomics and transcriptional control in myeloid malignancies
  • Ray Moellering: Using chemical approaches to monitor and manipulate the cancer cell proteome
  • Alexander Muir: Using metabolomics techniques to discover metabolic adaptations that allow cancer cells to grow and proliferate
  • Scott Oakes: Mammalian cell apoptosis and its relation to cancer and other diseases
  • Funmi Olopade: Molecular genetics of breast cancer and global health initiatives
  • Ilaria Rebay: Signal transduction and cell fate determination in Drosophila development and cancer
  • Marsha Rosner: Signaling cascades in tumor cell growth and metastasis
  • Pete Savage: Cellular and molecular mechanisms regulating immune tolerance and the immune response to cancer
  • Melody Swartz: Understanding the role of lymphangioegenesis and lymphatics in cancer and immunotherapy
  • Russell Szmulewitz: Understanding and treatment of metastatic progression in prostate cancer
  • Xiaoyang Wu: Skin stem and progenitor cell homeostasis and engineering to treat disease
  • Lixing Yang: Computational methodologies to integrate large-scale omics datasets relevant to cancer pathogenesis and treatment
  • Yingming Zhao: Discovery of novel protein modifications and their role in cell function and cancer