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Research We Fund: Extramural Discovery Science

DNA Mechanisms in Cancer (DMC)

Areas Reviewed

  • Gene regulation, transcription, epigenetics, translation, RNA replication, DNA repair, and recombination

  • Mechanisms of signal transduction

  • Hormone receptor signaling

  • Structural biology (DNA and/or other macromolecules)

DMC-PRC Members 

Chair, Jennifer Surtees, PhD, State University of New York, Buffalo

Co-Chair, Ryan Jensen, PhD, Yale University

Community Research Partner, Susan Hirth

Community Research Partner, Alia Manetta

Community Research Partner, Emily Puffett

Community Research Partner, Laura Zubeck

Lata Balakrishnan, PhD, IUPUI

Luis Batista, PhD, Washington University

Matt Bochman, PhD, Indiana University

James Dewar, PhD, Vanderbilt University

Yang Gao, PhD, Rice University

Diana Hargreaves, PhD, Salk Institute

Dirk Hockemeyer, PhD, University of California, Berkley

Yun (Nancy) Huang, PhD, Texas A&M University

Kate Lawrenson, PhD, Cedars Sinai

Eros Lazzerini Denchi, PhD, National Cancer Institute

Justin Leung, PhD, University of Texas, San Antonio

Zack Lewis, PhD, University of Georgia

Rui Lu, PhD, University of Alabama, Birmingham

Weibo Luo, PhD, UTSW Medical Center

Robert McGinty, MD, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kyle Miller, PhD, University of Texas, Austin

Jung-Hyun Min, PhD, Baylor University

JK Nandakumar, PhD, University of Michigan

Hengyao Niu, PhD, Indiana University

Huadong Pei, PhD, Georgetown University

Feng Qiao, PhD, University of California, Irvine

Kunal Rai, PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Eli Rothenberg, PhD, New York University

Lalit Sehgal, PhD, Ohio State University

David Taylor, PhD, University of Texas, Austin