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Cancer Cell Biology Program
Recent Program News
Program Overview
Mission Statement
To leverage mechanistic studies at Georgetown Lombardi to harness therapies for patients in our catchment area.
Specific Aims
Cancer Cell Biology Program members focus on two specific aims:
- Aim 1: Understand therapeutic vulnerabilities within cancer-related genetic, epigenetic, and DNA damage response mechanisms
- Aim 2: Elucidate druggable steps within cancer signal transduction networks
Program Leaders
CCB Steering Committee
Program Leadership
IIT Liaison
Drug Development Liaison
Program Resources
Full Members
- Stella Alimperti, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Nagi Ayad, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Robert A. Beckman, MD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics/GU
- Noa Biran, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine/Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
- Esther Braselmann, PhD, Assistant Professor, Chemistry/GU
- Tinatin Brelidze, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology/GU
- Stephen W. Byers, PhD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Siva Dakshanamurthy, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Piero Dalerba, MD, Associate Member/CDI
- Kimberly Doucette, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/GU
- Albert J. Fornace, MD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Martin Gutierrez, MD, Professor, Oncology/GU, Professor, Oncology/Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
- Cecil Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology
- Derek Hanson, MD, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics/CDI
- Claudine Isaacs, MD, Professor, Medicine, Oncology/GU, MGUH
- Joanna Kitlinska, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology/GU
- Gary Kupfer, MD, Program Leader, Professor, Oncology, Pediatrics/GU
- Evagelia Laiakis, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, GU
- Olivier Loudig, PhD, Associate Professor, Research/JTCC, Oncology/GU
- Alvin Makoham-Moore, PhD, Assistant Professor/Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
- John Marshall, MD, Professor, Medicine, Oncology/GU, MGUH
- Reetu Mukherji, MD, Assistant Professor, Hematology, Oncology/GU
- Sreejith Nair, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Marcus Noel, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine/GU, Medical Oncologist/MGUH
- Vicente Notario, PhD, Professor, Radiation Medicine/GU
- Huadong Pei, PhD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- Anna Tate Riegel, PhD, Professor, Oncology, Pharmacology & Physiology/GU
- Rebecca Riggins, PhD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- David J. Robbins, PhD, Program Leader, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Rabindra Roy, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Byungwoo Ryu, PhD, Associate Professor/Hackensack Meridian Medical School
- Stefan Schieke, MD, Associate Professor, Dermatology/GU
- Ji-Yeon Shin, PhD, Assistant Member/CDI
- Sandra Swain, MD, Professor, Medicine/GU
- Ming Tan, PhD, Professor/Chair, Biostatistics/Dept. of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics/GU
- Kevin Tong, PhD, Assistant Professor/Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine
- Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, Professor, Oncology, Pediatrics/GU
- Benjamin Tycko, MD, PhD, Program Leader, Professor, Research/JTCC, Oncology/GU
- Keith Unger, MD, Professor, Radiation Medicine/GU
- Todd Waldman, MD, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Elaine Walsh, MB BCh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Hematology, Oncology/GU
- Chunling Yi, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
Affiliate Members
- Seema Agarwal, PhD
- Peter Ahn, MD
- Chris Albanese, PhD
- Shaymaa Bahnassy, PhD
- Partha Banerjee, PhD
- Claire Carter, PhD
- Esther Harford Chang, PhD
- Elliott Crooke, PhD
- Bruce Davidson, MD
- Nancy Dawson, MD
- Daniel Djakiew, PhD
- Anatoly Dritschilo, MD
- Ruzong Fan, PhD
- Eric Glasgow, PhD
- Robert Glazer, PhD
- Brent Harris, MD, PhD
- Chukwuemeka Ihemelandu, MD
- Michael Johnson, PhD
- Jessica Jones, PhD
- Timothy Jorgensen, PhD
- Mira Jung, PhD
- Usha Kasid, PhD
- Craig Kessler, MD
- Puja Gaur Khaitan, MD
- Valeriy Korstyshevskiy, PhD
- Jan LaRocque, PhD
- Paul Leger, MD, MPH
- Junfeng Ma, PhD
- Ryan McAllister, PhD
- Steven Metallo, PhD
- Philip Miller, PhD
- Hiroshi Nakai, PhD
- Kathleen Pirollo, PhD
- Olga Rodriguez, MD, PhD
- Richard C. Schlegel, MD, PhD
- Ayesha Shajahan-Haq, PhD
- Steven Singer, PhD
- Aykut Üren, MD
- Matthew Witek, MD