Steering committee
Larry H. Matherly, Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Professor of Oncology and Pharmacology
Principal Investigator, T32 CA009531
Research Interests: Basic biology of membrane transporters; drug discovery; translational studies and chemotherapy response and resistance; biology and therapeutic applications of folates and related analogs.
George S. Brush, Ph.D.
Associate Director and Graduate Officer, Cancer Biology Graduate Program
Associate Professor of Oncology
Research Interests: DNA damage and recombination checkpoints, Regulation of pre-meiotic DNA replication, Transcription mechanisms in early meiosis
Julie Boerner, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Oncology
Research Interests: N/A
Heather Gibson, Ph.D.
Director of Cancer Biology Graduate Admissions
Associate Professor of Oncology
Research Interests: Cancer immunology and immunotherapy, resistance mechanisms
Hasan Korkaya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Oncology
Research Interests: N/A
Izabela Podgorski, Ph.D.
Co-leader, Prostate Cancer Research Program
Professor of Pharmacology
Research Interests: Biology of metastatic prostate and kidney cancers; Molecular mechanisms linking marrow adiposity with metastatic progression; Mechanisms of tumor-induced bone disease; Lipid metabolism and chemoresistance; ER stress and Unfolded Protein Response in bone metastasis.
Kristen Purrington, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: N/A
Malathy Shekhar, Ph.D.
Curriculum Director
Professor of Oncology and Pathology
Research Interests: Breast cancer research; Rad6 and postreplication DNA repair pathway: drug sensitivity/resistance mechanisms, gene regulation, and stabilization/activation of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling; stromal-epithelial interactions and its role in hormonal sensitivity/resistance.
Youming Xie, Ph.D.
Director, Cancer Biology MS Program
Associate Professor of Oncology
Research Interests: N/A
Michael R. Wilson, Ph.D.
Co-Director of Cancer Biology Graduate Admissions
Assistant Professor of Oncology
Research Interests: N/A