Faculty Directors of the IDCR Program
David Fruman
Aimee Edinger
IDCR Program Administrators
Krystina Jarema
Program Administrator
Training Faculty in the IDCR Program
Below is a list of participating faculty in the IDCR program, with brief summaries of their research
interests and links to their lab homepage or faculty profile.
Bogi Andersen
Transcriptional regulation in the developmental biology of epidermis and mammary gland
Scott Atwood
Cell fate decisions in skin cancer, skin and hair follicle development, and stem cells
Claudia Benavente
Understanding epigenetic deregulation in pediatric cancer tumorigenesis
Remi Buisson
Genomic instability, DNA repair and mutagenesis in cancer
Daniela Bota
Understanding how chemotherapy induces neurological toxicity
Xing Dai
Skin and mammary stem cells, Wnt signaling, chromatin, transcription
Michael Demetriou
Tumor immunology, glycobiology, T cell regulation
Aimee Edinger
Cancer bioenergetics, growth factor- and nutrient-dependent signaling, autophagy, intracellular trafficking
Angela Fleischman
Myeloproliferative neoplasm
David Fruman
Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in leukemia and lymphoma cells; Targeting the BCL2 pathway
Anand Ganesan
Identify the key molecular regulators of melanin production, melanoma cell survival, and melanoma chemoresistance in human cells
Christopher Halbrook
Understanding the complex tumor microenvironment in pancreatic cancer and the metabolic mechanisms creating barriers to treatment
Klemens Hertel
Regulation of gene expression by alternative splicing
Christopher Hughes
Molecular biology of developmental and tumor angiogenesis
Cholsoon Jang
We investigate how dietary nutrient metabolism causes metabolic diseases, including diabetes, NAFLD, NASH, liver and colon cancers
Peter Kaiser
Cell cycle control; regulation of proteins by ubiquitination
Kai Kessenbrock
Microenvironmental Control of Stem Cells and Cancer
Mei Kong
Stress adaptation in cancer cells
Young Jik Kwon
Cancer-targeted therapeutics, Engineered viral vectors for gene therapy, Cancer Vaccine
Arthur Lander
Mechanisms of growth factor action; extracellular matrix; developmental neurobiology; systems biology
Devon Lawson
Mechanisms of Cancer Metastasis
Gina Lee
Understanding how oncogenic signals and tumor microenvironment control RNA modifications
Wei Li
Computational Epigenomics and Transcriptomics
Charles Limoli
Oxidative stress, Neurogenesis, Stem cells, Transplantation, Chemobrain, Irradiation, Cognitive dysfunction
Selma Masri
Epigenetic control, circadian biology and metabolism
Edward Nelson
Tumor immunology, dendritic cell biology, and anti-tumor immunotherapeutics
Nicholas Pannunzio
Focuses on mechanisms underpinning the large-scale chromosome rearrangements that occur in B cells and result in leukemia and lymphoma
Max Plikus
Stem cells and stem cell niche, Regeneration of tissues and organs, Biological pattern formation, Self-organization, Skin and hair follicles, Adipose tissue, WNT and BMP signaling pathways
Jennifer Prescher
Probing biological systems with chemical tools and noninvasive imaging
Feng Qiao
Telomeres & telomerase and their roles in cancer and stem cell diseases; Structural, biochemical and molecular genetic analyses of nucleoprotein assemblies
Olga Razorenova
Internal (oncogenes/tumor suppressor genes) and external (tumor microenvironment) factors regulating tumor progression and metastasis
Roberto Tinoco
Tumor immunology, checkpoint therapy
Rick Van Etten
Tyrosine kinases and in vivo models of leukemogenesis
Wenqi Wang
Organ size control and its role in tumirogenesis
Marian Waterman
Wnt signaling and LEF-1 gene expression in lymphocytes and cancer
Greg Weiss
Using molecular evolution in a test tube (phage display) to explore the chemistry and biology of cells
Shawn Xiang
Understanding image -guided radiation therapy
Weian Zhao
Bioengineering; Stem cell transplantation, miniaturized devices for disease diagnosis and monitoring
Junior Preceptors* in the program include:
Thomas Burke
Investigating how pathogens subvert immune defenses and we are translating these findings to target innate immunity for cancer immunotherapy
Francesco Marangoni
Studying immune-evasion mechanisms, especially the ones favoring the development of tumors
Thomas Martinez
Focused on the discover and characterization of a newly uncovered class of small proteins.
* Junior Preceptors can serve as co-mentors