Cancer Genetics, Biochemistry & Cell Biology Program Members
Richard Ashmun, PhD
Department of Tumor Cell Biology
Research interests: applications of flow cytometry and cell separation
Don Bashford, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interests: Computational molecular biophysics
Mark Bix, PhD
Department of Immunology
Research interests: cytokine gene regulation in T-cell differentiation
Paul Brindle, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interests: gene regulation by transcriptional coactivators
Alessandra d'Azzo, PhD
Department of Genetics
Research interests: intracellular degradation in development and disease
Eric J. Enemark, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interests: Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication
Douglas Green, PhD
Department of Immunology
Research interests: apoptosis, autophage and mitochondria
Gerard Grosveld, PhD
Department of Genetics
Research interests: the role of chromosome translocations in cancer
Linda Hendershot, PhD
Department of Tumor Cell Biology
Research interests: ER quality control in development and disease
James Ihle, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interests: cytokine binding, signaling and cellular responses
Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti, PhD
Department of Immunology
Research interests: mechanisms of host defense and inflammation
Richard Kriwacki, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interests: structural basis of tumor suppressor function
Richard E. Lee, PhD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: Development of new chemotherapeutic agents
Shannon McKinney-Freeman, PhD
Department of Hematology
Research interests: directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells and hematopoietic stem cell specification
Tanja Mittag, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interest: structure/function relationship of dynamic and disordered protein complexes in signal transduction
Peter Murray, PhD
Department of Infectious Diseases
Research interests: control of inflammatory responses
Arthur Nienhuis, MD
Department of Hematology
Research interests: genetic therapy of hematological diseases
Leta Nutt, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interests: metabolic regulation of apoptosis; calcium homeostasis during apoptosis; metabolic regulation of ER stress
Stacey Ogden, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interest: mechanisms of Hedgehog signal transduction in development and disease
Joseph Opferman, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interests: regulation of cell death during hematopoiesis
Janet Partridge, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interests: chromosome segregation, heterochromatin assembly
Asha Pillai, MD
Department of Oncology
Research interests: immunoregulatory cell networks; prevention of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD); immune mechanisms of separation of GVT from GVHD
Charles Rock, PhD
Department of Infectious Diseases
Research interests: membrane phospholipid metabolism
Martine Roussel, PhD
Department of Tumor Cell Biology
Research interests: genes and microRNAs in brain tumors
Brenda Schulman, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interests: cellular regulation by ubiquitin-like proteins
Anang A. Shelat, PhD
Department of Chemical Biology & Therapeutics
Research interests: Multi-scale modeling of biological and chemical data
Charles Sherr, MD, PhD
Department of Tumor Cell Biology
Research interests: tumor suppressor-dependent signaling networks
Brian Sorrentino, MD
Department of Hematology
Research interests: gene therapy and hematopoietic stem cell biology
Dario Vignali, PhD
Department of Immunology
Research interests: regulatory T cells and T-cell signaling
Stephen White, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interests: structural analysis of catalysis and DNA repair
Gerard Zambetti, PhD
Department of Biochemistry
Research interests: p53 function in tumor suppression and tumorigenesis
Jinghui Zhang, PhD
Department of computational Biology
Research interests: computational methods for cancer genomics
Jie Zheng, PhD
Department of Structural Biology
Research interests: protein NMR and structure-based drug discovery