Faculty Mentors

Research Mentor Website Departmental Area of Research Affiliation Catherine Bollard, Link to website Professor  therapy for viral and malignant M.D. and diseases Molecular Medicine  Improve immunotherapy for lymphoma Alberto Bosque- Link to website Assistant Professor  Mechanisms that control the entry Pardos Ph.D., M.B.A. Microbiology, and exit of HIV into latency Immunology and  Similar approaches may apply to Tropical Medicine therapy Paul Brindley, Ph.D. Link to website Professor  Cancer-inducing infectious agents, Microbiology, including viruses and parasites Immunology and Tropical Medicine Inhee Chung, Ph.D. Link to website Assistant Professor  Study how cancer cells become Anatomy & Cell metastatic Biology Katherine Chiappinelli, Link to website Assistant Professor  Epigenetic regulation of immune Ph.D. Microbiology, signaling in cancer Immunology and  Using epigenetic therapies against Tropical Medicine Conrad Russell Cruz, Link to website Assistant Professor  Immunotherapies to recognize and M.D. Ph.D. Pediatrics destroy tumor cells Emilia Entcheva, Link to website Professor  Engineering approaches to improve Ph.D. Biomedical drug testing, human stem cell Engineering research, and gene therapies  Computational optogenetics Rohan Fernandes, Link to website Assistant Professor  Combining nanotechnology and Ph.D. Pediatrics, immunotherapy to engineer Radiology treatments for cancer and infectious diseases Yanfen Hu, Ph.D. Link to website Professor  Mechanism by which BRCA1 Anatomy & Cell suppresses development of breast Biology and ovarian cancers Norman Lee, Ph.D. Link to website Professor  Examine genetic networks and Pharmacology and pathways underlying cancer progression Rong Li, Ph.D. Link to website Professor  Breast cancer treatment and Biochemistry & prevention Molecular Medicine Research Mentor Website Departmental Area of Research Affiliation Raja Mazumder, Link to website Associate Professor  Use next generation and Ph.D. Biochemistry and data to identify therapeutic targets in Molecular Medicine cancer Lopa Mishra, M.D. Link to website Professor  Genetic studies in liver and Biochemistry and gastrointestinal cancer Molecular Medicine  Developing therapeutics for liver and GI cancers Edward Seto, Ph.D. Link to website Professor  Molecular mechanisms of gene Biochemistry and expression in cancer Molecular Medicine  Develop drugs to manipulate enzymes expressing high levels in cancer Maho Shibata, Ph.D. Link to website Assistant Professor  Study of androgens in Anatomy & Cell prostate cancer to improve Biology androgen deprivation therapies Eduardo Sotomayor, Link to website Professor  Immunobiology and immunotherapy M.D. Director of GW of B-cell malignancies Cancer Center  Mantle cell lymphoma Alexandros Tzatsos, Link to website Assistant Professor  Genetic and epigenetic mechanisms M.D., Ph.D. Anatomy & Cell that drive pancreatic and Biology hematologic cancers Alejandro Villagra, Link to website Assistant Professor  Immunoepigenetics: combining Ph.D. Biochemistry and epigenetics and immunotherapy Molecular Medicine  Train the immune system to kill invading cancer cells Ray-Chang Wu, Ph.D. Link to website Assistant Professor  Determine molecular mechanisms Biochemistry & of SRC-3/AIB1 oncogene to Molecular Medicine improve anti-cancer therapy Xiaoyan Zheng, Ph.D. Link to website Assistant Professor  Identify target genes for cancer Anatomy & Cell drugs and therapies Biology  Hedgehog signaling pathway Wenge Zhu, Ph.D. Link to website Associate Professor  Mechanisms of genome stability, Biochemistry & because genome instability Molecular Medicine contributes to cancer  Identify new drugs for cancer treatment