Cancer Biology Research
Faculty in this focus group study molecular mechanisms of cellular transformation and tumorigenesis, genetic susceptibility to cancers, and cancer therapeutics.
Faculty in Cancer Biology
Susan
M. Bailey
Assistant Professor (Environmental &
Radiology
Health Sciences); Ph.D. New
Mexico 2000. Potential role of dysfunctional (uncapped)
telomeres
in tumorigenesis studied with fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).
James
R. Bamburg
Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology);
Ph.D.
Wisconsin 1969. Regulation of the cytoskeleton in neuronal growth and
pathfinding;
signal transduction pathways regulating actin dynamics; abnormalities
in actin behavior in neurodegenative diseases.
Joel S. Bedford
Professor (Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D. Oxford 1966. Cellular radiation biology; radiation cytogenetics.
Debbie C. Crans
Professor (Chemistry); Ph.D. Harvard 1985. Biological chemistry; vanadium and transition metal chemistry relating to insulin mimetic effects; vanadium compounds with bone stimulating activities; enzyme mechanisms; phosphorus metabolism.
William
S. Dernell
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D. D.V.M., Illinois,
1985. Preclinical testing of anticancer and antimicrobial
chemotherapy agents.
Stephen W. Dow
Associate Professor (Microbiology, Immunology & Pathology and Clinical Sciences); Ph.D.; Colorado State University, 1992. Innate immunity and the lung; bacterial pathogenesis; cancer immunology; vaccines.
Dawn L. Duval
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D. University of Nevada 1994. Molecular mechanisms of carcinogenesis and metastasis in osteosarcoma and breast cancer models.
Nicole Ehrhart
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); V.M.D. University of Pennsylvania 1990. Limb preservation; musculoskeletal sarcoma; orthopaedic oncology; bone regeneration, and tissue engineering.
Michael H. Fox
Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences) Ph.D. Kansas State 1977. Flow cytometry, hyperthermia, cell cycle, apoptosis; mutagenesis.
Daniel L. Gustafson
Associate Professor (Clinical Sciences); Ph.D., University of Nevada, Reno, 1992. Cancer pharmacology, pharmacokinetics and toxicology.
Charles S. Henry
Assistant Professor (Chemistry); Ph.D., Arkansas, 1998. Bioanalytical chemistry; chemical separations and chemical nature of disease.
Susan M. LaRue
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); D.V.M., Georgia; Ph.D., ColoradoState 1992. Experimental therapeutics; hyperthermia; tumor physiology; tumor cytogenetics.
Paul J. Laybourn
Professor (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology); Ph.D. California (Davis) 1989. The mechanism of transcription regulation in a chromatin context.
Marie M. Legare
Assistant Professor (Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D., Texas A&M, 1995. Genetic and molecular approaches to studying neurotoxicology.
Howard L. Liber
Professor (Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1980. Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis in human cell.
Jennifer K. Nyborg
Professor (Biochemistry & Molecular Biology); Ph.D. California (Riverside) 1986. The mechanism of transcriptional deregulation by the human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-I) tax protein.
Douglas H. Thamm
Assistant Professor (Clinical Sciences); V.M.D. University of Pennsylvania 1995. Signal transduction and its inhibition in comparative cancer models.
Henry J. Thompson
Professor (Horticulture & Landscape Architecture and Head of the Cancer Prevention Laboratory); Ph.D. Rutgers 1975. Biochemical and molecular approaches to cancer prevention; preclinical models and clinical investigations.
Robert L. Ullrich
Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); PhD.University of Rochester 1975. Carcinogenesis and genetic modifiers of susceptibility.
Michael M. Weil
Associate Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin 1987. Genetic susceptibility to radiation-induced cancers.
Stephen J. Withrow
University Distinguished Professor (Clinical Sciences) and Director (Animal Cancer Center); Ph.D. Tennessee 1972. Comparative pet animal models for cancer, with an emphasis on sarcomas and limb-sparing techniques using a multidisciplinary approach.
Raymond S.H. Yang
Professor (Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences); Ph.D.North Carolina State 1970. Molecular and cellular aspects of chemical carcinogenesis; integration of mathematical modeling and biomedical experimentation.