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Walden Ai  PhD   Assistant Professor
Transcriptional factor Kruppel-like factor 4, a C2H2 zinc-finger-containing nuclear factor implicated in the control of cell proliferation and differentiation

Franklin G. Berger PhD   Director of The Center for Colon Cancer Research
Professor  

Anti-metabolite resistance in colon tumor cells

Sondra Berger PhD   Associate Professor
Cancer Chemotherapy: Computer-assisted Drug Design

Hexin Chen PhD    Assistant Professor
The role of HOX genes in mammary gland development and breast tumorigenesis

Kim Creek PhD   Professor
the cellular and molecular changes initiated by human papillomavirus type 16

Dan A. Dixon PhD   Assistant Professor
Colon Carcinogenesis, Inflammation, Post-Transcriptional Gene Regulation

Lorne Hofseth PhD  Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of inflammatory-mediated carcinogenesis through the identification of key cancer proteins and pathways. Chemopreventive strategies using neutraceuticals to decrease the cancer burden


Lydia Matesic PhD   Assistant Professor
The Role of C2-WW-HECT Ubiquitin Ligases in Disease and Development

Campbell McInnes PhD  Assistant Professor
The use of protein structures in the design of targeted anti-cancer therapeutics

Mitzi Nagarkatti PhD   Professor
Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy

Prakash Nagarkatti PhD   Associate Dean for Basic Science
Professor

Immunotoxicity of dioxin and other endocrine disruptors. Cannabinoid-induced immunosuppression and use of cannabinoids in cancer therapy. CD44 in endothelial cell injury and antitumor immunity

Marj Pena, PhD   Research Assistant Professor
Bone marrow transplantation. Colon Cancer


Rekha Patel PhD   Associate Professor
Regulation of cell proliferation and apoptosis

Lucia Pirisi-Creek MD   Professor
Role of the EGF receptor in HPV16-mediated human cell carcinogenesis. Gene expression profiling of HPV-mediated transformation

Doug Pittman PhD  Associate Professor
The maintenance of chromosome stability by homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair mechanisms

Swappan Ray PhD   Professor
The cellular and molecular mechanisms of pathogenesis of malignant diseases such as glioblastoma, neuroblastoma, and Ewing's sarcoma and also neurodegenerative disorders

David Reisman PhD   Associate Professor
Regulation of expression of the p53 tumor suppressor

Deanna Smith PhD   Assistant Professor
The regulation of cytoplasmic dynein by Lis1 and Nudel in development and disease

Theresa Smith PhD  Assistant Professor
Identification of components in the diet which modulate carcinogenesis and understanding their mechanism of action

Alan S. Waldman PhD   Professor
Homologous Recombination in Mammalian Cells, Molecular Genetics, Gene Targeting, DNA Repair

Barbara C. Waldman PhD   Research Associate Professor
Regulation of Glycosylation in Mammalian Cells; Golgi Apparatus; Posttranslational Modifications of Proteins; Protein Trafficking

Yuxun Wang PhD   Assistant Professor
The fundamental mechanisms for genetic instability and the deregulated pathways in cancer using in vitro and in vivo model systems deficient in DNA repair functions

Mike Wyatt PhD  Associate Professor
Chemical/mechanistic approaches to understand biological systems that have a direct impact on human health and disease. Understanding the Base Excision Repair pathway, which is responsible for correcting a wide variety of incorrect or damaged bases
 

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