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CANCER  BIOLOGY

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

Troy A Baudino PhD    Assistant Professor

Role of Myc Oncoproteins in Development and Tumor Angiogenesis

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

Phillip J  Buckhaults PhD   Assistant Professor
The molecular events associated with the progression of colon cancer, with particular focus on changes in gene expression

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

William Hrushesky MD
Effect of biologic rhythms upon host cancer balance, tumor biology, and the efficacy and toxicity of cytotoxic drugs and growth factors used in hematology and oncology

Xiongbin Lu PhD   Assistant Professor
DNA Damage Checkpoint and p53 Signaling Pathways In Human Tumorigenesis

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

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

Paul Thompson PhD   Assistant Professor
Cell signaling pathways controlling human gene transcription


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

Patricia Wood, MD  PhD
Effect of biologic rhythms upon host cancer balance, tumor biology, and the efficacy and toxicity of cytotoxic drugs and growth factors used in hematology and oncology

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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