Membership
Gavin P. Robertson, Ph.D., Director
Professor of Pharmacology, Pathology, Dermatology and Surgery, Director, Melanoma Therapeutics Program, Director, Foreman Foundation Melanoma Research Laboratory
Area(s) of interest: Experimental Therapeutics Agent development for treatment of Melanoma, Apoptosis, Metastasis, Nanotechnologies/Liposomes and RNAi.
Rogerio I. Neves, M.D., Ph.D., Deputy Director
Associate Professor of Surgery, Dermatology, Pharmacology and Medicine
Director, Cutaneous Oncology Program, Clinical Science Leader, Melanoma Therapeutics Program
Area(s) of interest: Cutaneous oncology, including prevention, diagnosis, treatment and research of melanoma, cutaneous sarcomas and other skin cancers.
Joseph Drabick, M.D., Associate Director for Translational Oncology
Professor of Medicine
Area(s) of interest: Melanoma and Clinical trials.
Bryan Anderson, M.D., Associate Director of Oncologic Dermatology
Associate Professor of Dermatology
Area (s) of interest: Contact Dermatitis, Psoriasis, Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma and melanoma.
Edward Fox, M.D., Associate Director for Bone and Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Associate Professor
Area(s) of interest: Orthopaedic Surgery Musculoskeletal Oncology.
Heath Mackley, M.D., Associate Director for Radiation Oncology
Assistant Professor of Radiology/Radiation Oncology
Area(s) of interest: Head and Neck malignancies, Gastrointestinal malignancies, Gynecologic malignancies, Cutaneous malignancies, Sarcomas, Population research, Advanced Radiation Technologies, Radio-surgery.
Loren Clarke, M.D., Associate Director for Pathology
Associate Professor of Anatomic Pathology & Dermatology
Area(s) of interest: Melanomas and other tumors of the skin, sarcomas of the soft tissue and skin as well as cutaneous lymphomas.
Genevieve Ann (Ambrose) Andrews, M.D., Associate Director for Surgical Oncology
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Areas of interest: Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery.
Klaus Helm, M.D., Associate Director of Dermatopathology
Professor of Dermatology
Area(s) of interest: Dermatopathology.
Professor of Material Sciences
Area(s) of interest: Material Sciences.
Professor of Pathology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Pharmacology
Area(s) of interest: Fundamental genetic and molecular mechanisms that cause cancer, basic mechanisms underlying the relationship between human skin pigmentation and cancer.
Gary Clawson, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Pathology
Area(s) of interest: Early changes in Carcinogenesis.
James Connor, Ph.D
Professor of Neurosurgery
Area(s) of interest: Regulation of Expression of Iron Binding Proteins in the Nervous system.
Cheng Dong, Ph.D.
Professor of Bioengineering
Area(s) of interest: Tumor Micro-environment leukocytes and endothelial immune functions which effect Cancer Metastasis. Micro-hemodynamics, cell adhesion and signaling.
Wafik S. El-Deiry, M.D., Ph.D.
Rose Dunlap Division Chair in Hematology/Oncology, Associate Director for Translational Research, Cancer Institute
Area (s) of interest: Cancer signalling and therapeutic agent development.
Associate Professor, Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences
Area(s) of interest: Molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways that regulate progression of squamous tumors from a benign to malignant phenotype. He also works on analysis of the tumor suppressor and oncogenic roles of Transforming Growth Factor Beta in multistage skin carcinogenesis using novel transgenic and knockout mouse models.
Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics
Area(s) of interest: Cell and Developmental Biology, Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Neuroscience.
Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Area(s) of interest: Immunology and microbiology
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology
Area(s) of interest: Melanoma Targets, Drugs and Delivery System.
Changagalu D. Raghavendragowda, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow
Area(s) of interest: Melanoma Targets, Drugs and Delivery System.
Director: Bio-behavioral Health
Lois High Berstler Professor of Pharmacology
Area(s) of interest: Understanding the fundamental mechanisms that control apoptosis and autophagy in the context of oncogenesis.
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Area(s) of interest: Epigenetic histone modifications in cell differentiation and cancer.
Associate Professor of Radiology
Area(s) of interest:Brain mapping with functional MRI, In vivo pathological evaluation of Alzheimer's disease with quantitative MRI.
Jiyue Zhu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology
Area(s) of interest: Molecular mechanisms of cellular immortalization and cancers