Cancer Biology
The track leaders, along with their contact information, are:
| Sue Naylor | naylor@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-3842 |
| James Freeman | freemanjw@uthscsa.edu | 210-567-5298 |
AGUIAR, Ricardo, Biochemistry - Leukemia and lymphoma, molecular basis of clinical heterogeneity.
AMMANAMANCHI, Sudhakar, Hematology/Medical Oncology - Growth factor receptors, oncogenes, tumor suppressor genes.
BISHOP, Alex, C&S Biology & GCCRI - Cancer genetics and Genomics, DNA damage/Genomic instability, Animal model systems.
BOYER, Thomas, Molecular Medicine - Role of oncoproteins and tumor suppressor proteins in transcription regulation and DNA repair.
CHATTERJEE, Bandana, Molecular Medicine - Nuclear receptors and metabolic regulation; androgen receptor in prostate cancer and gene regulation.
CHEN, Shuo, Pediatric Dentistry - Androgen receptor and prostate cancer development.
CHEN, Yumay, Medicine (Nephrology) - Cell cycle regulation, apoptosis and DNA repair/ genome instability.
CURIEL, Tyler, San Antonio Cancer Institute - Cancer immunology, translational research, signal transduction, metastasis, tumor Microenvironment.
DAHIA, Patricia, C&S Biology & Hematology/Medical Oncology - Biologcal signatures, pheochromocytomas, mitochondria, hypoxia, genomics of cancer.
DEGRAFFENRIED, Linda, Hematology/Medical Oncology - Signal transduction, molecular therapeutics and mechanisms of resistance.
FOWLER, Larry J., Pathology - Anatomic pathology, proteomics, breast, lung and endocrine cancer.
FREEMAN, James, Hematology/Medical Oncology - Cell signaling, experimental therapeutics.
GACZYNSKA, Maria, Molecular Medicine - Role of controlled proteolysis in cancer, molecular medicine.
GAO, Shou-Jiang, GCCRI - Cancer biology, tumor virology, signaling, AIDS/cancer.
GAZITT, Yair, Hematology/Medical Oncology - Drug resistance, multiple myeloma, hematopoietic stem cell biology and clinical application.
GHOSH, Rita, Urology - Carcinogenesis mechanisms, prevention and therapy.
GHOSH-CHOUDHURY, Nandini, Pathology - Cancer growth, apoptosis, metastasis.
HASKINS, William E., Biochemistry - Stem cell pluripotency factors, DNA-binding transcription factors, and posttranslational modifications of these factors in mouse embryonic stem cells and pediatric germ cell tumors.
HERMAN, Brian, C&S Biology - Apoptosis, animal models, aging, imaging.
HINCK, Andrew, Biochemistry - TGF beta interactions, solution NMR spectroscopy.
HORNSBY, Peter, Physiology - Role of telomeres in tumorigenesis.
HU, Yanfen, Molecular Medicine - Mechanism of BRCA1 in tumor suppression.
IZUMI, Kenneth M., Microbiology - Epstein Barr virus, B-lymphocyte transformation, LMP1.
JOHNSON-PAIS, Teresa, Pediatrics - Metastasis, arrays - cancer cell biology.
KELLER, Charles, C&S Biology & GCCRI - Conditional mouse genetics; imaging tumor progression.
KUMAR, A. Pratap, Urology - Nutritional intervention of carcinogenesis.
LEACH, Robin, C&S Biology - Cancer genetic, epidemiolog, tumor suppressor genes.
LEE, Sang, Molecular Medicine - Molecular genetics of DNA damage response.
LI, Rong, Molecular Medicine - The molecular basis of breast cancer.
LIU, Feng, Pharmamcology - Signal transduction.
MARCINIAK, Robert, C&S Biology & Hematology/Medical Oncology - Cancer, telomere maintenance.
MCEWEN, Donald, GCCRI - Cell signaling, Experimental genetics.
NAYLOR, Sue, C&S Biology - Tumor suppressor genes, angiogenesis, biomarkers.
NICHOLSON, Bruce, Biochemistry - Structure and function of gap junctions; gap junctions as tumor suppressors.
OSMULSKI, Pawel A., Molecular Medicine - Role of controlled proteolysis in cancer, molecular medicine.
OYAJOBI, Babatunde, C&S Biology - Myeloma bone disease, breast cancer, experimental therapeutics.
PADALECKI, Susan, C&S Biology & Urology - Bone metastases, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, animal models and breast cancer.
PENALVA, Luiz, C&S Biology & GCCRI - Post-transcriptional regulation, RBPs.
PEREIRA-SMITH,Olivia, C&S Biology - Cell senescence, chromatin remodeling, regulation of genes and cell growth.
RAO, Manjeet, C&S Biology & GCCRI - MicroRNAs and RNA interference in cancer.
REBEL, Vivienne, C&S Biology & GCCRI - Molecular mechanisms of stem cell regulation.
ROBETORYE, Ryan S., Pathology - Non-Hodgkins lymphoma development and progression, cancer genomics, mouse Models.
SAIKUMAR, Pothana, Pathology - Oncogenes and cell death.
SHARP, Z. Dave, Molecular Medicine - Gene regulation in development; cell growth control in cancer and aging.
SLAGA, Thomas J., Pharmacology - Carcinogenesis, prevention and therapy.
STEFFENSEN, Bjorn, Periodontics - Structure and function of matrix metalloproteinases, extracellular matrix, cancer.
SUN, LuZhe, C&S Biology - Cancer biology, signal transduction, cell cycle, cell senescence,experimental therapeutics.
TEKMAL, Rajeshwar, OB-GYN - Breast/ovary/cervical cancers, hormonal carcinogenesis/steroid hormone research.
TROYER, Dean A., Pathology - Pathology and biology of cancer, urological cancers.
VADLAMUDI, Ratna K., OB-GYN - Signal transduction, nuclear receptors, coregulators, Tg/KO mouse models.
VOGEL, Kristine, C&S Biology - NFI, animal models for nervous system cancers, DNA damage/repair.
WALASZEK, Margaret Hanausek, Pharmacology - Cancer prevention.
WALASZEK, Zbigniew, Pharmamcology - Cancer prevention.
WALTER, Chris, C&S Biology - DNA repair in development, aging and cancer.
YEW, P. Renee, Molecular Medicine - Cell cycle regulation in vertebrates and the role of ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis in cancer.
ZHANG, Wei, Pharmacology - Gene therapy.
