Faculty with cancer research interest in top American universities.
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Jeffrey Settleman, PhD
Director, Center for Molecular Therapeutics Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Center for Cancer Research
e-mail:
Phone: 617-724-9556
Howe, Louise Rosemary, PhD
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
Phone: (212)-734-0567
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Research area: Understanding the molecular mechanisms that underlie the development and growth of breast cancer.
Brown, Anthony M.C., PhD
Department of Cell and Developmenal Biology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
e-mail:
Phone: (212) 734-0567
Research area: WNT SIGNALING IN TISSUE BIOLOGY AND CANCER. Unraveling the basic mechanisms of Wnt signaling, how altered Wnt signaling contributes to cancer.
Peter H. Duesberg
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Molecular & Cell Biology
e-mail:
Phone: (510) 642-6549
Research Area: Carcinogenesis: Aneuploidy and cancer.
Dr. Thomas D Gilmore
Biology Department, Boston University
Molecular biology, cell biology, virology, signal transduction, cancer
Phone: (617) 353-5444
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Research area: understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which certain genes can transform normal cells into malignant cells, cancer, and the normal control of cellular growth by these genes.
David J. Waxman, PhD
Prof. of Cell and Molecular Biology, Dept of Biology
Prof. of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine
Phone: (617) 353-7402
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Research area: Molecular endocrinology and cell signaling; Cancer gene therapy and pharmacology; Liver genes and transcriptional control; Orphan receptors and responses to foreign chemicals.
Richard Kolodner, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine
Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
University of California at San Diego
Phone: (858)534-7804
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Research area: the mechanism(s) of genetic recombination, DNA repair and checkpoints with a particular emphasis on those pathways, like DNA mismatch repair, that function to prevent genome instability. The genetics of human cancer susceptibility.
Bing Ren, Ph.D.
Ass. Prof. of Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
University of California at San Diego
Phone: (858)534-7820
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Research area: the development of genomics and bioinformatics tools that allow genome wide identification of regulatory targets for transcription factors; and, 2) the application of these tools to the study of transcription factors that play critical roles in cancer.
Cavenne Webster, PhD.
University of California at San Diego
Director, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research
Phone: 858)534-7185
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Research area: Clinical Cancer Genetics, Mammalian Cancer Genetics, Mouse Cancer Genetics, Urologic Cancer
Stefanie S Jeffrey, MD
Associate Prof., Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
Standard University School of Medicine
Phone: (650) 723-5461
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Research area: breast cancer genomics, breast tumor metabolic pathways, molecular differences between invasive ductal and invasive lobular breast carcinomas.
Cancer Research Centers/Institutes/University:
Cancer Research Foundations
Breast Cancer Research Foundations and Funds
Faculty in cancer research and their research focuses
Prostate Cancer Research Centers, Foundations and Support Networks
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