Program Faculty

Mary Alpaugh, PhD
Biomedical Sciences/Biological & Biomedical Sciences
Inflammatory breast cancer

Kathryn Behling, MD, PhD 
Biomedical Sciences/Pathology
Cannabinoids and rhabdomyosarcomas; genetic biomarkers of genitourinary cancer.

Darren Boehning 
Biomedical Sciences
Cellular signaling pathways regulating oncogenic transformation and tumorigenesis. 

Andrea Bottaro
Biomedical Sciences
Immune responses to melanoma.

Russell J. Buono, PhD 
Biomedical Sciences
Novel therapeutics for glioblastoma.

Gonzalo Carrasco, PhD 
Biomedical Sciences
Cannabinoids and alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma (ARMS) tumor biology.

Xiaoxin Luke Chen 
Biomedical Sciences/Surgery
Targeting oncogenic pathways for cancer therapy.  

Weam Elberzanti, PharmB, MS, PhD
Biomedical Sciences/Surgery
Tumor microenvironment of multiple myeloma. 

Nora Engel
Biomedical Sciences/Coriell
Sex differences in melanoma progression

Khalid Hanafy, MD, PhD 
Biomedical Sciences/Neurology
Tumors of the nervous system.

Jim Holaska
Biomedical Sciences
The role of nuclear envelope proteins in enabling metastatic transformation. 

Jian Huang 
Biomedical Sciences/Coriell
Signaling pathways regulating drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia; hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and differentiation

Jean-Pierre Issa 
Biomedical Sciences/Coriell
Epigenetic changes in aging and cancer. 

Subash Jonnalagadda 
Biomedical Sciences/Chemistry and Biochemistry
Cancer Drug Design and Discovery, Triple Negative Breast Cancer Therapeutics. 

Susy C. Kohout 
Biomedical Sciences/Biomedical Sciences
Electrical and chemical signaling during metastatic migration

Sophia Orbach 
Biomedical Sciences/Biomedical Engineering
Patient variation in adverse drug reactions to immunotherapies.

Manoj Kumar Pandey 
Biomedical Sciences
Inflammatory signaling pathways, tumor microenvironment, and cancer therapeutics.

Rachel Riley
Biomedical Sciences/Biomedical Engineering
Development of nanoparticle-based technologies to treat pediatric leukemia

Shumei Song 
Biomedical Sciences
The Role of Hippo/YAP/TAZ Signaling in Therapy Resistance, Metastasis, and Stroma Remodeling in Gastroesophageal Cancer

Ben Sorum
Biomedical Sciences
Tumors of the nervous system; mechanosensitive ion channels in cellular proliferation.

Penghao Wang
Biomedical Sciences
AI/Machine learning approaches to mining cancer datasets; biostatistics and cancer.