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Principal Investigator

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc

Professor

Focus: Cancer Drug Development

Tew Lab

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Investigators

Lalima (Ahuja) Madan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Peggi Angel, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor 

Focus: Systems-based Approaches to Heart Valve Development and Disease 

Angel Lab

Gavin Yong Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Lead Researcher
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Haizhen Wang, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor

Focus: Cell cycle proteins in cancer progression

Wang Lab

Pilot Projects

Kyu-Ho Lee, M.D., Ph.D.

Center Manager - Digestive Disease Research Core Center
leekh@musc.edu
843-792-0307

Shikhar Mehrotra, Ph.D.

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Professor of Surgery
College of Medicine

Academic Focus: Targeting T-cell signaling and metabolic pathways to improve adoptive T-cell therapy for cancer

Core Directors

Danyelle Townsend, Ph.D.

Interim Research Co-Chair, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences - College of Pharmacy
Professor, College of Pharmacy
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John Lemasters, Ph.D., M.D.

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Professor

Lauren E. Ball, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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Focus: Role of O-GlcNAc Glycosylation in the Regulation of Insulin/IGF-1 Receptor Signal Transduction Pathways

Expertise:
PTMs
LC-MS/MS
Quantitative Proteomics
O-GlcNAc modification

Mentors

Richard R. Drake, Ph.D.

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Professor

Focus: Glycoprotein Biomarkers of Cancer and Mass Spectrometry Imaging

Drake Lab

Scott T. Eblen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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Associate Professor

Focus: Signal Transduction in Cancer Biology

Eblen Lab

Anand S. Mehta, Ph.D.

Senior Associate Dean, Research - College of Medicine
Endowed Chair, SmartState Chair - Proteomic Biomarkers
Professor, College of Medicine
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Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc

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Professor

Focus: Cancer Drug Development

Tew Lab

Danyelle Townsend, Ph.D.

Interim Research Co-Chair, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences - College of Pharmacy
Professor, College of Pharmacy
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Administrative Staff

Deza Finn
Administrative Manager

Niki Turner
Administrative Coordinator

Andrew King
Fiscal Technician

Caitlin Myers Hernandez
Grants Coordinator

Graduates

 

Eduardo N. Maldonado, DVM, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor

Danyelle Townsend, Ph.D.

Interim Research Co-Chair, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences - College of Pharmacy
Professor, College of Pharmacy
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COBRE Internal Advisory Board

Kathleen T. Brady, M.D., Ph.D.
Distinguished University Professor
Associate Dean for Clinical Research

Alan Diehl, Ph.D.
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Endowed Chair Lipidomics & Pathology

Phil Howe, Ph.D.
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Endowed Chair for Clinical Oncology

Keith Kirkwood, D.D.S., Ph.D.
Professor
Associate Dean of Research
College of Dental Medicine

Igor Roninson, Ph.D.
Professor
SCCP Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences -USC Campus

COBRE External Advisory Board

Kenneth D. Tew, Ph.D., DSc

Professor

Focus: Cancer Drug Development

Tew Lab

Franklin Berger, Ph.D.

Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, Ph.D.

Dean P. Jones, Ph.D.

Garth Powis, DPhil