Faculty

Christopher Albanese
Assistant Professor
Role of oncogenes, tumor suppressor proteins and cyclin D1 in theinitiation and progression of prostate and breast cancers.

Maria Laura Avantaggiati
Associate Professor
Role of the p53 tumor suppressor and of deacetylases in metabolic pathways that confer cancer protection.

Milton Brown
Associate Professor & Director, Georgetown University Drug Discovery Program
Anti-cancer drug discovery and the role of voltage gated sodium channels in the etiology and progression of prostate cancer.

Stephen Byers
Professor & Associate Director for Shared Resources
Gene environment interactions focused on vitamins A and D and wnt signaling in breast and colorectal cancer.

Esther Chang
Professor
Tumor-targeting nanodelivery platform for the improvement of cancer therapy and diagnosis.

Fung-Lung Chung
Professor
Mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis with an emphasis on the DNA damage caused by environmental and endogenous chemicals.

Robert Clarke
Professor & Interim Director, BGRO
Studies hormones (endogenous and exogenous) and related factors affect breast cancer, and how breast cancers become resistant to endocrine and cytotoxic chemotherapies.

Elliott Crooke
Chair and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Control of chromosomal replication; role ofpolyphosphates in cellular responses to environmental stresses.

Albert Fornace
Professor
Oncogenic and genotoxic stress signaling, including application of systems biology approaches to stress signaling in cancer.

Priscilla A Furth
Professor & Leader Growth Regulation of Cancer Program
Cancer progression and regression, hormonal signaling pathways and cell survival and differentiation.

Robert I Glazer
Professor
PDK1 in mammary epithelial cell transformation and metastasis; PPAR-gamma in chemoprevention and stem cell self-renewal.

Radoslav (Rado) Goldman
Assistant Professor
Studies of progression of chronic hepatitis viral infection tohepatocellular carcinoma, identification of markers for earlydetection of cancer.

Leena A Hilakivi-Clarke
Professor
Fetal, pubertal and pregnancy dietary exposures to different types of fats, plant-derived bioactive components and alcohol, and risk of breast and other endocrine cancers.

Carolyn Hurley
Professor & Research Director, CW Bill Young Marrow Donor Recruitment and Research Program
Role of genetic diversity in human immune response with focus on hematopoietic stem cell transplantation

Michael D Johnson
Assistant Professor
Role of proteases in the invasion, progression and metastasis of breast cancer.

Usha N Kasid
Professor
Raf-1/Erk signaling; new molecular targets; tumor growth, metastasis, and radiation resistance; antisense and siRNA; liposomal delivery systems; breast, prostate, and pancreatic cancer.

Christopher Loffredo
Associate Professor & Leader, Cancer Genetics & Epidemiology Program
Role of infectious diseases, environmental exposures, and genetic susceptibility to cancers of childhood and adulthood.

Mary Beth Martin
Professor
Role of estrogen and the estrogen receptor in etiology and progression of breast cancer.

Susette C Mueller
Professor & Director of Microscopy and Imaging Share Resource
Role of tyrosine kinases in regulating breast cancer cell invasion and the role of invadopodia.

Vicente Notario
Professor & Leader, Radiation Biology & DNA Repair Program
Role of oncogenes in mechanisms of human carcinogenesis and the cellular stress response, with emphasis on molecular targets and pathways for chemo- and radiosensitization.

Anna Tate Riegel
Professor & Associate Director for Cancer Research Education
Mechanisms of cross talk between hormone and growth factor signaling in human breast and pancreatic cancer.

Eliot M Rosen
Professor & Leader, Radiation Biology & DNA Repair Program
Role of the breast cancer susceptibility gene (BRCA1) in signaling and prevention in breast, prostate and brain cancer.

Rabindra Roy
Assistant Professor
Role of Repair mechanisms of Oxidative and Alkylation DNA damage inmutations, cancer and chemoprevention.

C. Richard Schlegel
Academic Chair & Professor of Pathology
Molecular and immunological studies of the human papillomaviruses and their role in neoplasia.

Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch
Chair & Professor of Biostatistics
Studies bioinformatics for genomics and proteomics. Invesitigates statistical methodology for analysis of molecular genetic data, 2D gels and protein profiles related to cancer progression.

Peter G Shields
Professor & Deputy Director for Lombardi
Molecular epidemiology and carcinogenesis for breast and lung cancer.

Careen K Tang
Associate Professor
Role of ErbB receptors and CXCR4 in human cancer progression and metastasis

Jeffery A Toretsky
Associate Professor
Development of novel childhood cancer therapeutics using chemical genomics

Aykut Uren
Assistant Professor
Role of Wnt/beta-catenin signaling in cancer pathogenesis.

Todd A Waldman
Associate Professor
Functional analysis of the PTEN tumor suppressor gene and genetic analysis of glioblastoma pathogenesis.

Anton Wellstein
Professor& Associate Director for Basic Science
The role of growth factors in the cancer cell / stroma interaction.