Molecular Medicine Graduate Program
Mentors in Molecular Basis of Disease
Cancer

Last Name Index (A - Z ) B D G H K L M P S T W 
Amy  H.  Bouton,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Signaling Pathways that Regulate Tumor Growth, Metastasis, and Response to Anticancer Agents; Adhesion Signaling In Macrophages; Bacteria-Host Cell Interactions
David  L.  Brautigan,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Protein Ser/Thr Phosphatases in Cell Signaling and Cell Cycle
John  H.  Bushweller,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Research Interests:
Structural and Functional Basis for Oncogenesis; Targeted Drug Development; Structural Studies of Membrane Proteins
Anindya  Dutta,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests:
DNA Replication and Genomic Instability in Cancer Cells
Barry  M.  Gumbiner,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor and Chair of Cell Biology
Research Interests:
Cell Adhesion and Morphogenesis; Wnt Signaling; Cadherins and Catenins; Development and Cancer
Isa  M.  Hussaini,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:
The Roles of PKC-eta and LRP in Glioblastoma Invasive Growth
Andrei  Khokhlatchev,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:
Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Suppression by NORE1A family of Proteins
Deborah  A.  Lannigan,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Kinases, Drugs and Breast Cancer
Ulrike  M.  Lorenz,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Involvement of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 in signal transduction pathways
Ian  G.  Macara,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Mammary Gland Morphogenesis, Stem Cells, and Breast Cancer; Mechanisms of Cell Polarity; Polarity Proteins as Tumor Suppressors; Protein Methylation.
James  W.  Mandell,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:
Mechanisms of Brain Astroglial Activation in Neural Injury
Marty  W.  Mayo,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Research Interests:
Transcriptional Regulation by NFKB
Christopher  A.  Moskaluk,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Pathology
Research Interests:
Molecular pathogenesis and genomic analysis of human cancers
Sarah (Sally)  J.  Parsons,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Molecular mechanisms of Src family tyrosine kinases in mitogenesis, tumorigenesis, and neuronal activity.
Martin  A.  Schwartz,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Integrin Signaling and Its Relevance to Mechanotransduction, Cancer and Vascular Disease
Margaret  A.  Shupnik,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism
Research Interests:
Hypothalamic peptide and steroid regulation of pituitary gene transcription; Estrogen action in neuroendocrine and reproductive tissues; Estrogen action in breast cancer
Avril  V.  Somlyo,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Research Interests:
Signaling pathways that regulate contractility in smooth muscle tissues and migrating cells in normal and disease states such an coronary artery disease, asthma and hypertension. Structure function studies of the intercalated disk in the heart.
Lukas  K.  Tamm,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics
Research Interests:
Biomembrane Structure and Function; Membrane Fusion in Viral Cell Entry and Exocytosis; Lipid-Protein Interactions
Dennis  J.  Templeton,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor and Chair of Pathology
Research Interests:
Cell Death in Cancer Progression; Stress-Mediated Signal Transduction; Cancer Chemoprevention; Stress Inhibitors in Inflammatory Diseases
Dan  Theodorescu,  M.D., Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Urology
Research Interests:
Cell Signaling in Tumor Invasion and Metastasis, Metastasis Suppressor genes, Biomarkers, Translational Research in Prostate and Bladder Cancer.
Michael  J.  Weber,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Professor of Microbiology
Research Interests:
Signal Transducing Kinases in Cancer
Mark  B.  Williams,  Ph.D.    [more information]
Associate Professor of Radiology
Research Interests:
Design, Development and Optimization of Medical Imaging Technologies