Faculty
Diversity is no stranger to the Department of Experimental Therapeutics and the broad range of research interests that motivate our faculty. The opportunity to discover hypothesis-driven, innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer patients is what inspires our basic scientists to continue their research in the areas of target discovery and validation, drug design and development and pre-clinical and clinical testing.
From cell signaling and signaling pathways to pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics, from toxicity and pharmacology to drug resistance and chemoprevention and from molecular targets to targeted therapies, these are just a few of the areas that our researchers investigate every day in their determination to cure cancer.
Primary
- Varsha V. Gandhi, Ph.D.
Professor
Chair Ad Interim, Department of Experimental Therapeutics
Director Ad Interim, Center for Targeted Therapy
Ruby E. Rutherford Distinguished Professorship - Bharat B. Aggarwal, Ph.D.
Professor - Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D.
Professor - William Bornmann, Ph.D.
Professor - George A. Calin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor - Zhen Fan, M.D.
Professor - David Farquhar, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - Walter N. Hittelman, Ph.D.
Professor - DahHsi Ho, Ph.D.
Professor Emerita - Jian Kuang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Chang-gong Liu, Ph.D.
Professor
- Xiuping Liu, M.D.
Associate Professor - Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D.
Professor - John S. McMurray, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Robert A. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - William K. Plunkett, Ph.D.
Professor - Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D.
Professor - Fredika M. Robertson, Ph.D.
Professor - Michael G. Rosenblum, Ph.D.
Professor - Zahid H. Siddik, Ph.D.
Professor - Shuxing Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Leonard Zwelling, M.D., M.B.A.
Professor
Research
- Kumudha Balakrishnan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Geoffrey Bartholomeusz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Lisa Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Rong Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Kirk S. Culotta, Pharm.D.
Assistant Professor - Izabela Fokt, Ph.D.
Instructor - Julie Izzo, M.D.
Associate Professor - Betty Lamothe, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Xiao-Feng "Lawrence" Le, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Warren Liao, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Xiaojun Liu, Ph.D.
Instructor - Khalid Mohamedali, Ph.D.
Instructor - Bulent Ozpolat, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Aloke Sarkar, Ph.D.
Instructor - Christine Stellrecht, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Ryan Watkins, Ph.D.
Instructor - Chuan-Fen Wu, Ph.D.
Instructor
Joint Appointments
- Charles A. Conrad, M.D.
Professor
Department of Neuro-Oncology - Robert Z. Orlowski, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma
Adjunct Faculty
- Daniel Van Hoff, M.D.
Adjunct Professor - Ana Tari, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor - Yinhua Yu, M.D.
Adjunct Professor