Our Faculty
Our faculty bring deep expertise and a commitment to discovery that shapes breakthrough research and supports the growth of future scientists. Their drive to advance knowledge strengthens every part of our department.
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Thibaut 'Tim' Barnoud, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: The role of p53 variants in cancer risk and response to therapy; targeting heat shock proteins for the treatment of cancer.
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Annamarie C. Dalton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Molecular mechanisms of epithelial to mesenchymal transition effectors in cell-based and murine models of metastatic breast cancer and breast cancer recurrence in conjunction with Dr. Philip Howe.
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Joseph Delaney, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Biogenesis and pathology of copy-number alterations in cancer, particularly serous ovarian cancer.
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Raymond N. Dubois, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: The molecular, genetic, and cellular basis for colorectal cancer.
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Vamsi K. Gangaraju, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Epigenetic regulation by Piwi-piRNA pathway; biogenesis and biological functions of piRNAs; environmental epigenetics; drosophila models of human diseases.
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Saverio Gentile, Ph.D.
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Lu Han, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Epithelial-mesenchymal tissue interactions during pancreatic homeostasis and tumorigenesis.
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Jessica H. Hartman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Individual differences in metabolism arising from genetic factors (e.g. xenobiotic metabolizing enzymes) and lifestyle factors (exercise and diet) that impact response to environmental exposures, especially mitochondrial function/dysfunction and ER stress.
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Aaron Hobbs, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Judit Jimenez Sainz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor |
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David T. Long, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: The mechanistic role of BRCA1 in DNA repair and cancer predisposition.
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Lalima K. Madan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Protein-Phosphorylation based signaling
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John P. O'Bryan, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Pathways regulating cell growth, development, differentiation and proliferation in response to growth factor receptor signaling.
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Besim Ogretmen, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Roles of sphingolipid metabolism in cancer pathogenesis, chemotherapy-induced cell death, and drug resistance.
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Michael C. Ostrowski, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Interactions between signaling pathways in cancer cell progression and normal cellular differentiation.
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Jian Ouyang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: RNA-mediated genome maintenance and the transcriptional stress-induced genomic instability in normal and cancer cells, and targeting the underlying molecular mechanisms to develop novel cancer therapies.
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Ozgur Sahin, Ph.D.
Professor
Focus: Mechanisms of cancer therapeutics, drug resistance and metastasis; drug discovery; systems biomedicine.
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Natalie Saini, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Determining the causes underlying genome instability in healthy humans, diseases with increased DNA damage and in cancers.
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Judit J. Sainz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor |
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Russell Spencer-Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Uncovering new vulnerabilities in the RAS-MAPK pathway through the study of rare disease-associated mutations.
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Daniel Sprague, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Neglected tropical diseases, cancer, and pain and depression. Utilizing techniques from various disciplines including synthetic and medicinal chemistry, pharmacology, and cell biology, we are interested in uncovering mechanisms of biased signaling in GPCRs and other receptors, studying epigenetic processes in both humans and parasites, and developing new ligands in un(der)drugged signaling pathways.
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Jennifer Stancill, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Focus: Determining the mechanisms by which pancreatic beta-cells protect themselves from reactive oxygen species and inflammation and how these mechanisms can be leveraged to prevent or treat diabetes.
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Timothy L. Stemmler, Ph.D.
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Christina Voekel-Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Focus: Cell death, sphingolipids, oxidative stress, gene delivery.
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Noel A. Warfel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor |
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Huimin Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor |
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Research Faculty
Aiping Bai, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Bo Cen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Breege V. Howley, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sajish Mathew, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Patrick Nasarre, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Natalia V. Oleinik, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Sudarshana Sharma, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Zdzislaw Szulc, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Dingzhi Wang, Ph.D.
Professor
Jie Wei, MS
Associate Professor
Xingjun B. Wu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Emeritus Faculty
Erika Büllesbach, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Emeritus
Focus: Hormones of insulin-like structure; chemical syntheses and structure-function relations.
Julie Chao, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Focus: Serine proteinase structure-function relationship; purification, molecular cloning, expression, and function of proteinases and proteinase inhibitors; serpin regulation of gene expression
Daniel Fernandes, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Focus: Molecular mechanisms of drug-induced gene amplification. Interactions of anticancer drugs with nuclear matrix proteins, especially DNA topoisomerase II.
Paula Traktman Ph.D.
Hirschmann Endowed Professor Emeritus
Focus: Vaccinia virus genome replication and virion morphogenesis. The role(s) of the cellular VRK1 protein kinase and BANF1 protein in normal cell function and cancer.
Gregory W. Warr, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Focus: Information Theory and its constraints on discrete systems in biology.
