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Bowden, |
Molecular mechanisms of physical and chemical carcinogenesis; cellular oncogene activation and differential gene expression during tumor progression |
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Alberts, |
Identification of chemoprevention and treatment strategies for breast, colon, ovary, and skin cancers. |
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Bernstein, |
DNA damage and apoptosis in colon cancer |
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Bosco, |
Developmental regulation of the cell cycle; DNA replication; Drosophila as a cancer model |
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Briehl, |
Relationship between oxidative stress and disease processes, particularly cancer |
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Chambers, |
Inhibition of CSF-1 and/or c-fms function; decrease bone metastasis from breast cancer and help alleviate bone pain |
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Chen, |
Molecular mechanisms of oxidative stress and pharmacological agents of cytoprotection |
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Cress, |
Regulation of normal and cancer cell responses to environmental signals |
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Dieckmann, |
Organelle biogenesis |
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Doetschman, |
TGFB in T-cell homeostasis and tolerance |
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Dorr, |
Toxicology systems and mechanisms of action of cytotoxic anticancer agents; the pharmacology of cancer chemopreventive agents |
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Dvorak, Katerina, PhD |
Role of bile acids and gastric acids in the development of Barrett's esophagus and esophageal adenocarcinoma |
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Fares, |
Membrane trafficking in C. elegans |
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Futscher, |
Cancer epigenetics and epigenomics |
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Gerner, |
Signaling pathways influencing growth and apoptosis in carcinogenesis; polyamine metabolism |
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Ghosh, Sourav, PhD |
Regulation of cell polarity in development and disease |
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Goodrum, Felicia, PhD |
Human cytomegalovirus (CMV) latency |
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Gregorio, |
Identification of the molecular components and signaling mechanisms that regulate cytoskeletal protein interactions during striated muscle development |
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Gunatilaka, |
Natural products and medicinal chemistry including isolation, characterization and partial synthesis of anticancer agents and their mechanisms of action |
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Hastings, Karen MD, PhD |
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Heimark, |
Molecular mechanisms of angiogenesis and prostate carcinoma epithelial-mesenchymal transformation; regulation of cadherins in vascular morphogenesis |
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Hurley, |
Discovery and development of novel anticancer drugs; telomeres; telomerase; transcriptional control; topoisomerases as drug targets |
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Ignatenko, |
Study of the molecular changes in gaA leading to malignancy for the purpose of identification of molecular markers for detection or prevention of gastrointestinal cancer |
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Katsanis, |
Mechanisms of tumor-induced immunosuppression; promotion of anti-tumor immunity |
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Kim, |
Cancer biology and tumor suppressors |
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Lance, |
Cancer prevention and control; mechanisms of regulating sialyltransferase genes in colorectal cancer and metastasis; fibroblast biology |
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Lang, |
Breast cancer translational research |
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Larmonier, |
Mechanisms of tumor-induced immunosuppression; promotion of anti-tumor immunity |
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Christine Laukaitis, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Clinical Medicine |
Gene copy number variation in cancer |
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Limesand, |
Radiation-induced salivary gland dysfunction; mechanisms of damage, clinical prevention measures, and restoration therapies |
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Mahadevan, |
Rational drug design utilizing molecular modeling and identifying new drugs for further applications in cell culture and animal model systems |
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Martinez, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
Mechanisms of colon cancer chemoprevention |
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Martinez, |
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 |
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McDermott, Kimberly, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
The role of cilia in mammary gland biology |
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Meuillet, |
Regulation of PTEN in cancer cells; development of novel anti-cancer agents; modulation of receptor tyrosine kinases via membrane lipid and cholesterol content |
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Montfort, |
Determine the atomic structures of proteins and seek to understand how protein structure gives rise to protein function - both in vitro and in living cells |
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Nagle, |
Prostate cancer progression |
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Nelson, |
Molecular mechanisms of physical and chemical carcinogenesis; biochemical and molecular pharmacology of cancer chemopreventive drugs |
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Mark "Marty" Pagel, PhD, Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering |
MRI methods to evaluate anti-cancer therapies; develop contrast agents for optical imaging and photoacoustic imaging. |
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Parker, |
mRNA decay in yeast, emphasizing molecular genetics to understand both the mechanisms and regulation of mRNA turnover |
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Rimsza, Lisa, MD, Professor, Pathology |
development of new molecular methods, including gene expression profiling in frozen and paraffin embedded tissues, for lymphoma diagnosis and prognosis |
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Rogers, Greg, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
characterizing a particular pathway (the Plk4 pathway) to control the biogenesis of centrosomes |
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Romagnolo, |
Cellular and molecular mechanisms in mammary function; gene expression in cell proliferation and differentiation |
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Schmelz, Monika, PhD |
Stem cells within the human prostate gland |
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Schroeder, Joyce, PhD, Associate Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology |
Breast cancer progression and invasion |
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Smith, Catharine, PhD Associate Profesor, Pharmacology and Toxicology |
Epigenetic mechanisms of gene expression, particularly their regulation through signaling pathways and their modulation by anti-cancer drugs. |
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Sun, Daekyu, PhD, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology |
Angiogenesis; understanding the chemical and biological mechanisms of the antineoplastic, DNA-damaging natural product leinamycin; understanding inducible resistant mechanisms in human cancer cells to DNA-damaging anticancer drugs |
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Thompson Carino, |
Biomarker identification and validation for disease risk assessment and early detection; discovery of protein markers in nipple aspirate fluid |
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Tran, Nhan, PhD Research Assistant Professor, UA Phoenix College of Medicine |
Development of therapeutic targets for invasive glioma cells: development of novel therapies. |
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Weinert, |
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 |
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Wilson, Jean, PhD, Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine |
Epithelial cells and neurons:regulation of development and polarity |
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Wondrak, |
Development of novel molecular agents for skin cancer chemoprevention and chemotherapy |
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Yang, |
Interaction of camptothecin anticancer drugs with DNA and topoisomerase I; Novel DNA quadruplex interacting compounds |
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Assistant Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology |
Cancer pathways using quantitative systems biology |
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Zhang, |
Nrf2/Keap1 signaling pathway |