Faculty Mentors
Research Mentor Website Departmental Area of Research Affiliation Catherine Bollard, Link to website Professor Cell therapy for viral and malignant M.D. Biochemistry 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 cancer 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 cancers 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 Physiology 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 proteomics 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 function 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