Research and Clinical Research Professors

Research Professors 

Yuan Chang, MD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Area of Research: Discovery and characterization of novel human tumor viruses
Term: 01/01/09 through 12/31/13

Herbert Chen, MD
University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI
Area of Research: Establishment of a MEN2 Thyroid Cancer Research and Training Program
Term: 1/1/2011 through 12/31/2015

John Coffin, PhD
Tufts University, Boston, MA
Area of Research: Molecular biology of retroviruses
(F.M. Kirby Foundation)
Term: 01/01/94 through 4/30/14

Titia De Lange, PhD
The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
Area of Research: The Role of Telomere Dynamics in Human Cancer
Term: 1/1/2010 through 12/31/2014

Wafik El-Deiry, MD, PhD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Area of Research: Molecularly Targeted Therapy for Colon and Liver Cancer
Term: 01/01/09 through 12/31/13

Christine Guthrie, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: mRNA splicing and transport
(Frank and Else Schilling-ACS Research Professor)
Term: 01/01/92 through 12/31/11

Iswar K. Hariharan, MD, PhD
University of California, Berkeley, CA
Area of Research: Regulation of Growth and Regeneration in Drosophila
Term: 1/1/2011 through 12/31/2015

R. Scott Hawley, PhD
Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City, MO
Area of Research: The origins of meiotic and mitotic aneuploidy
Term: 01/1/10 through 12/31/14

Beth Y. Karlan, MD
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Area of Research: Biomarkers for Ovarian Cancer Early Detection/Prognostication and Therapy
Term: 07/1/11 through 06/30/16

Cynthia J. Kenyon, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Genetic Analysis of aging in C elegans
Term: 01/1/10 through 12/31/14

Mary-Claire King, PhD
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA
Area of Research: Breast cancer genetics and epidemiology
(Walt Disney-American Cancer Society Research Professor for Breast Cancer)
Term: 01/1/10 through 12/31/14

Lewis L. Lanier, PhD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Cancer immunology of tumors
Term: 01/1/03 through 12/31/12

Patrick Moore, MD, MPH
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Area of Research: Discovery and characterization of novel human tumor viruses
Term: 01/1/09 through 12/31/13

Terry L. Orr-Weaver, PhD
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Area of Research: Regulation of chromosome segregation and DNA replication
Term: 01/1/07 through 12/31/11

Helen Piwnica-Worms, PhD
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Area of Research: Functionalizing and Translating the Human Breast Cancer Genome
Term: 1/1/2011 through 12/31/2015

Anil K. Rustgi, MD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Area of Research: The Genetics and Biology of Squamous Cell Cancers
Term: 1/1/2010 through 12/31/2014

Leona Samson, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Area of Research: DNA alkylation repair and cancer
(Ellison Foundation-ACS Research Professor)
Term: 01/01/01 through 06/30/11

Kevin Shannon, MD
University of California, San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Kevin M. Shannon - Research Professorship
Term: 7/1/2010 through 6/30/2015

Stewart Shuman, M.D., PhD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
Area of Research: RNA repair
Term: 01/1/10 through 12/31/14

Inder M. Verma, PhD
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA
Area of Research: Network of Nuclear Oncoproteins: Role in Cell Regulation
Term: 1/1/2011 through 12/31/2012

Graham Walker, PhD
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Area of Research: DNA repair and symbiosis
Term: 01/01/02 through 12/31/11

Michael H. Wigler, PhD
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
Area of Research: Control of Cell Proliferation
Term: 1/1/2011 through 8/31/2012

Clinical Research Professors

Kenneth C. Anderson, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA
Area of Research: Development of Novel Myeloma Therapies
Term: 7/1/2010 through 6/30/2015

Carlos L. Arteaga, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN
Area of Research: HER2 and drug resistances 
Term: 07/1/07 through 06/30/12

Arul M. Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
The Regents of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Area of Research: Oncoseq, A Bioinformatics Platform for Nextgen Sequencing in Oncology
07/01/09 through 06/30/14

Graham A. Colditz, MD, DrPH
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Area of Research: Breast cancer epidemiology and prevention
(American Cancer Society Cissy Hornung Clinical Research Professor)
Term: 07/1/03 through 6/30/14

Ethan Dmitrovsky, MD
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Area of Research: Bidirectional Translational Research for Lung Cancer
Term: 07/1/08 through 6/30/13

Charis Eng, MD, PhD
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Area of Research: PTEN Cancer Phenomics
(F.M. Kirby Foundation)
07/01/09 through 06/30/14

James L. Ferrara, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Area of Research: Novel Strategies to Treat Graft Versus Host Disease
Term: 07/01/08 through 06/30/13

Jennifer R. Grandis, MD
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Area of Research: Head and Neck Cancer as a Model for Bedside-to-Bench Research
Term: 07/01/08 through 06/30/13

Jean-Pierre Issa, MD
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX
Area of Research: Epigenetics, DNA methylation 
(F.M. Kirby Foundation)
Term: 07/1/07 through 06/30/12

Ronald Levy, MD
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Area of Research: Immunobiology of human lymphoid malignancy
(Frank and Else Schilling-ACS Clinical Research Professor)
Term: 07/01/87 through 06/30/11

Christine A. Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN
University of California,San Francisco, CA
Area of Research: Clinical Research Professor
Term: 7/1/2010 through 6/30/2015

Olufunmilayo Olopade, MD
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Area of Research: Toward a Primary Prevention of Breast Cancer in the African Diaspora
Term: 7/1/2010 through 6/30/2015

Kenneth J. Pienta, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Area of Research: Treatments targeting prostate cancer
Term: 07/1/03 through 6/30/13

Kurt Stange, MD, PhD
Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Area of Research: Family Medicine Best Practices
Term: 07/01/07 through 06/30/12

Thomas P. Stossel, MD
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Area of Research: Mechanisms of cell motility
(Ellison Foundation-ACS Clinical Research Professor)
Term: 07/01/87 through 06/30/12

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