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Name	Research
Akporiaye, Emmanuel, PhD Professor, Immunobiology	Immunology of tumor rejection and gene therapy of cancer
Alberts, David S., MD Professor; Medicine, Pharmacology, Public Health. Director, Arizona Cancer Center	Novel anti-cancer and chemoprevention drug development; chemoprevention of breast, colon, cervix, skin and prostate cancer; development, validation and testing of endpoint biomarkers for chemoprevention with special emphasis on quantitative histopathology using machine vision
Bernstein, Harris, PhD Professor; Cell Biology and Anatomy	DNA damage and apoptosis in colon cancer
Bosco, Giovanni, PhD Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology	Developmental regulation of the cell cycle; DNA replication; Drosophila as a cancer model
Bowden, Timothy G., PhD Chair, Cancer Biology GIDP, Professor; Cell Biology and Anatomy, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Pharmacology and Toxicology, Radiation Oncology	Molecular mechanisms of physical and chemical carcinogenesis; cellular oncogene activation and differential gene expression during tumor progression
Briehl, Margaret, PhD Associate Professor, Pathology	Role of oxidative stress in the mechanism of apoptosis
Canfield, Louise M., PhD Professor; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Public Health	Metabolism and biological functions of carotenoids
Chen, Qin, PhD Associate Professor, Pharmacology	Aging and cancer; role of tumor suppressor genes in cellular senescence and cellular response to oxidants
Cress, Anne E., PhD Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Dieckmann, Carol L., PhD Professor; Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Organelle biogenesis
Dorr, Robert T., PhD Professor, Pharmacology	Toxicology systems and mechanisms of action of cytotoxic anticancer agents; the pharmacology of cancer chemopreventive agents
Doetschman, Thomas, PhD Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy	TGFB in T-cell homeostasis and tolerance
Fares, Hanna (Johnny), PhD Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology	Membrane trafficking in C. elegans
Futscher, Bernard, PhD Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology	Cancer epigenetics and epigenomics
Garewal, Harinder S., PhD, MD Professor, Pharmacology	Biology of preneoplastic lesions
Gerner, Eugene W., PhD Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Signaling pathways influencing growth and apoptosis in carcinogenesis; polyamine metabolism
Gregario, Carol, PhD Professor,Cell Biology and Anatomy	Identification of the molecular components and signaling mechanisms that regulate cytoskeletal protein interactions during striated muscle development
Gunatilaka, Leslie, PhD Professor and Associate Director, Natural Products Chemistry	Natural products and medicinal chemistry including isolation, characterization and partial synthesis of anticancer agents and their mechanisms of action; chemistry of the anticancer drug, Paclitaxel (Taxol®)
Hall, Jennifer, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Mechanism of DNA replication, mutagenesis, repair and recombination in mammalian cells and animal viruses
Heimark, Ronald L., PhD Professor, Surgery, Cell Biology and Anatomy	Molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis and prostate carcinoma epithelial-mesenchymal transformation
Hurley, Laurence H., PhD Professor, Medicinal Chemistry (Pharmacology & Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Sciences)	Discovery and development of novel anticancer drugs; telomeres; telomerase; transcriptional control; topoisomerases as drug targets
Ignatenko, Natalia, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy	Study of molecular changes in gastrointestinal tract leading to malignancy for the purpose of identification of molecular markers for detection or prevention of gastrointestinal cancer
Jacobson, Elaine L., PhD Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology	Optimizing molecular and cellular responses to UV radiation in skin; inhibition of advanced glycation end-products; DNA damage and repair
Jacobson, Myron K., PhD Professor, Pharmacy, Medical Chemistry	Molecular mechanisms involved in maintenance of genomic intensity
Katsanis, Emmanuel, MD Professor, Pediatrics	Regulation and mechanisms of action of dendritic cells in inducing antitumor immunity; chaperone proteins in tumor immunology
Lance, Peter, MD Professor, Medicine	Cancer prevention and control; mechanisms of regulating sialyltransferase genes in colorectal cancer and metastasis; fibroblast biology
Limesand, Kirsten, PhD Assistant Professor, Nutritional Sciences	signaling mechanisms involved in the regulation of apoptosis, radiation-induced DNA damage, secondary side-effects of cancer therapy that diminish patient quality of life
Little, John W., PhD Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Molecular and Cellular Biology	Mechanisms of gene regulation; biochemistry of SOS response in E. coli, behavior and evolution of gene regulatory circuits
Mahadevam, Daruka, MD Assistant Professor, Medicine	Design and development of novel drugs to target oncogenic proteins
Martinez, Maria Elena, PhD Associate Professor of Public Health; Nutrition; Mexican American Studies and Research Center	Dietary Hetrocyclic Amines; Genetic Susceptibility; and Risk of Colorectal Cancer; Four Corners Breast Cancer Study; Colon Cancer Prevention Program Project; Arizona Family Registry for Colorectal Cancer Studies
Martinez, Jesse D., PhD Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy, Genetics	Cancer genetics, colon cancer chemoprevention; tumor suppressor genes; functional analysis of p53; role of bile acids in colon carcinogenesis
McGrath, John, PhD Professor and Chair, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Biomedical engineering
Meuillet, Emmanuelle, PhD Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Regulation of PTEN activity in cancer cells; Novel inhibitors of Akt as anticancer drugs
Miesfeld, Roger L., PhD Professor and Chair, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering	Molecular genetics of steroid-regulated gene expression
Montfort, William, PhD Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	X-ray crystallography of macromolecules
Mount, David W., PhD Professor Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	Bioinformatics, sequence and genome analysis of plants and animals; informatics support for cancer research
Nagle, Raymond B., MD, PhD Professor, Pathology, Cell Biology and Anatomy	Prostate carcinogenesis. Extracellular matrix integrin interactions
Nelson, Mark A., PhD Professor, Pathology	Molecular mechanisms of physical and chemical carcinogenesis; biochemical and molecular pharmacology of cancer chemopreventive drugs
Parker, Roy, PhD Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics	mRNA decay in yeast, emphasizing molecular genetics to understand both the mechanisms and regulation of mRNA turnover
Romagnolo, Donato, PhD Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences	Cellular and molecular mechanisms in mammary function; gene expression in cell proliferation and differentiation
Schmelz, Monika, PhD Research Assistant Professor, Pathology	Stem cells within the human prostate gland
Thompson, Patricia, PhD Assistant Professor, Pathology	Biomarker identification and validation for disease risk assessment and early detection; discovery of protein markers in nipple aspirate fluid
Weinert, Ted, PhD Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology	Control of cell division in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae; use of genetic, physiological and molecular techniques to study how the cell delays entry into mitosis if chromosomes are damaged
Wilson, Jean, PhD Professor, Cell Biology and Anatomy	Membrane traffic: molecular characterization of the composition and biogenesis of endosomal compartments in polarized and non-polarized cells
Wondrak, Georg, PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology	Development of novel molecular agents for skin cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy
Yang, Danzhou, PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Toxicology	Interaction of camptothecin anticancer drugs with DNA and topoisomerase I; Novel DNA quadruplex interacting compounds
Zhang, Donna, PhD Assistant Professor, Pharmacology Toxicology	Nrf2/Keap1 signaling pathway