Faculty & Staff
Diversity is no stranger to the Experimental Therapeutics department 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
- Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair - Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D.
Professor - Zhen Fan, M.D.
Professor - David Farquhar, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - Varsha Gandhi, Ph.D.
Professor
Waun Ki Hong, Distinguished Chair in Translational Oncology - Walter N. Hittelman, Ph.D.
Professor - Jian Kuang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D.
Professor
John Q. Gaines Foundation Professorship for Cancer Research - Robert A. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - William K. Plunkett, Ph.D.
Professor
Barnts Distinguished Chair
Associate Vice President, Research Integrity - Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D.
Professor - Michael G. Rosenblum, Ph.D.
Professor - Zahid H. Siddik, Ph.D.
Professor - Shuxing Zhang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research
- Ana Alvarez de Cienfuegos Suarez, Ph.D.
Instructor
- Paola Amero, Ph.D.
Instructor - Burcu Aslan, Ph.D.
Instructor
- Maria Teresa (Sabrina) Bertilaccio, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Lisa S. Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Rong Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Izabela Fokt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Ya'an Kang, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Zhen Lu, M.D.
Associate Professor - Khalid Mohamedali, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Janice Santiago-O'Farrill, Ph.D.
Instructor - Aloke Sarkar, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Rafal Zielinski, Ph.D.
Instructor
Joint appointments
- Robert Z. Orlowski, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Lymphoma and Myeloma - Elizabeth A. Grimm, Ph.D.
Professor
Melanoma Med Onco - Research
Adjunct faculty
- Daniel Van Hoff, M.D.
Adjunct Professor - Martin Pichler, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor - Madeline Torres-Lugo, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor - Ana Tari, Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor
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