Molecular and Experimental Therapeutic Research in Oncology (METRO) Program
Program Leaders
Program Overview
The mission of the Molecular Oncology and Experimental Therapeutic Research Program is to bring together investigators to:
- Identify and validate pathways critical to the initiation, progression, maintenance and metastasis of cancer;
- Reduce the cancer burden through preclinical and early clinical drug development;
- Determine optimal treatment approaches, combinations and sequences; and
- Identify prognostic, predictive and surrogate markers of efficacy and resistance for active agents.
METRO program members focus on three specific aims:
Aim 1
Identifying pathways and molecular targets in cancer.
Aim 2
Understanding and exploiting the crosstalk between cancer cells, the tumor microenvironment and the immune system.
Aim 3
Evaluating cancer genomics and epigenetics.
A primary goal of the METRO Program is to match clinical research with lab research to facilitate a translational pipeline that brings a better understanding of cancer biology and new cancer therapies from bench to bedside.
Join the Program
Several tenure track positions with Georgetown Lombardi are available. See details here.
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Full Members
- Chris Albanese, PhD, Professor, Oncology, Pathology/GU
- Michael Atkins, MD, Deputy Director, Lombardi, Professor, Oncology, Medicine/GU, MGUH
- Maria Laura Avantaggiati, MD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- Noa Biran, MD, Attending Physician, Medicine/JTCC
- Stephen W. Byers, PhD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Amrita Cheema, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Fung-Lung Chung, PhD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Karen Creswell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Siva Dakshanamurthy, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Michele Donato, MD, Professor, Oncology, BMCB/GU, Medicine/JTCC
- Anatoly Dritschilo, MD, Professor/Chair Radiation Medicine, Radiation Medicine, Oncology/GU, MGUH
- Albert J. Fornace, MD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Eric Glasgow, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology, Surgery/GU
- Andre Goy, MD, Professor/Director JTCC, Oncology/GU, Medicine/JTCC
- Cecil Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology
- Brent Harris, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology, Pathology/GU
- Aiwu Ruth He, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine, Oncology/GU,MGUH
- Jacqueline Jonklaas, MD, Professor, Medicine /GU, MGUH
- Joanna Kitlinska, PhD, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Physiology/GU
- Robert Korngold, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU, Research/JTCC
- Jan LaRocque, PhD, Associate Professor, Human Science/GU
- Stephen Liu, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/GU, MGUH
- Subha Madhavan, PhD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- John Marshall, MD, Professor, Medicine, Oncology/GU, MGUH
- Andrew Pecora, MD, Professor, Oncology/GU, Medicine/JTCC
- David Perlin, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU, Research/JTCC
- Dean Rosenthal, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Scott Rowley, MD, Professor, Oncology/GU, MGUH, Medicine/JTCC
- Rabindra Roy, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Richard C. Schlegel, MD, PhD, Professor, Pathology, Oncology/GU
- David Siegel, MD, Professor, Oncology/GU, Medicine /JTCC
- Jill Smith, MD, Professor, Medicine/GU, MGUH
- Ming Tan, PhD, Professor/Chair, Dept. of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Biomathematics/GU
- Jeffrey Toretsky, MD, Program Leader, Professor, Oncology, Pediatrics/GU
- Benjamin Tycko, MD, PhD Program Leader, Professor, Research/JTCC, Oncology/GU
- Keith Unger, MD, Associate Professor, Radiation Medicine/GU, MGUH
- Aykut Uren, MD, Professor, Oncology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Todd Waldman, MD, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Louis M. Weiner, MD, Director, Lombardi and MGCI, Professor/Chair Oncology, Oncology, Medicine/GU, MGUH
- Anton Wellstein, MD, PhD, Professor/AD Basic and Translational Research/Program Leader, Oncology, Pharmacology and Physiology, Medicine/GU
- Chungling Yi, PhD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU
- Jenny Zilberberg, PhD, Associate Professor, Oncology/GU, Research/JTCC
Associate Members
- Peter Ahn, MD, Associate Professor, Radiation Medicine/GU
- Waddah Al-Refaie, MD, Professor, Surgery/GU, MGUH
- Partha Banerjee, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Deborah Berry, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Kenneth Burman, MD, Professor, Medicine/MWHC
Jason Butler, PhD, Assistant Professor, JTCC - John Casey, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, GU
- Esther Harford Chang, PhD, Professor, Oncology/Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Sergey Chasovskikh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine, GU
- Brian Collins, MD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine/GU
- Sean Collins, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Radiation Medicine/GU
- Elliott Crooke, PhD, Professor & Chair, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, GU
- Kamal Datta, MD, Assistant Professor, Biology, GU
- Bruce Davidson, MD, Professor, Otolaryngology/GU
- Nancy Dawson, MD, Professor, Oncology/Medicine/GU
- Daniel Djakiew, PhD, Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular & Cellular Biology, GU
- Martin Dym, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/ GU
- Giuseppe Esposito, MD, Associate Professor, Radiology/GU
- Stephen Evans, MD, Professor, Surgery/GU
- Stanley Fricke, PhD, Associate Professor, CNMC, GU
- Ophir Frieder, PhD, Professor, Computer Science/Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics/GU
- G. Ian Gallicano, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Stuart Goldberg, MD, Associate Clinical Professor/JTCC
- Samuel Goldlust, MD, Attending Physician, Neurology/JTCC
- Martin Gutierrez, MD, Attending Physician/JTCC
- K. William Harter, MD, Associate Professor, Radiation Medicine, GU
- Carolyn Hurley, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Jonathan Hwang, MD, Associate Professor, Urology/MWHC
- Sandra Jablonski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology, GU
- Jessica Jones, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology /GU
- Timothy Jorgensen, PhD, Associate Professor, Radiation Medicine/Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, BU
- Mira Jung, PhD, Professor, Radiation Medicine, GU
- Bhaskar Kallakury, MD, Professor, Pathology, GU
- Usha Kasid, PhD, Professor, Radiation Medicine, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- Craig Kessler, MD, Professor, Medicine/Oncology/GU
- Samir Khleif, MD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Chul Kim, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Attending Physician, Heme/Onc/GU, MGUH, MWHC
- Brent Korba, PhD, Professor, Microbiology & Immunology, GU
- Valeriy Korstyshevskiy, PhD, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics/Oncology, GU
- Evagelia Laiakis, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, GU
- Xuefeng Liu, MD, Assistant Professor, Pathology, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology/GU
- John Lynch, MD, Professor, Surgery/Urology, GU
- Vera Malkovska, MD, Attending Physician, Medicine/Hematology, MWHC
- Ryan McAllister, PhD, Assistant Professor, Physics/Oncology, GU
- Steven Metallo, PhD, Associate Professor, Chemistry
- Hiroshi Nakai, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, GU
- Vicente Notario, PhD, Professor, Radiation Medicine/, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, GU
- Ivana Peran, PhD, Instructor/GU
- David Perry, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine, MWHC
- Emanuel Petricoin, PhD, Professor, Molecular/Microbiology, George Mason Univ.
- George Philips, MBBS, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Medicine/Hematology-Oncology/GU
- Kathleen Pirollo, PhD, Professor, Oncology/GU
- Dennis Priebat, MD, Attending Physician, MWHC
- Suthee Rapisuwon, MD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU, MGUH, MWHC
- Olga Rodriguez, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology, GU
- Byungwoo Ryu, PhD, Associate Scientist, Research/JTCC, Oncology/GU
- Narayan Shivapurkar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Oncology/GU
- Steven Singer, PhD, Associate Professor, Biology/GU
- John Vanmeter, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology, GU
- Benjamin Weinberg, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine/GU, MGUH
- Dan Wang, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Medicine, GU
- Christopher Wilcox, MD, Professor, Medicine/GU
- Cathy Wu, PhD, Professor, BMCB, GU
- Johannes Zakrzewski, MD, Associate Scientists, Biomedical Research, JTCC