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 Chen, Ph.D.
  Assistant 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
• Bulent Ozpolat, M.D., Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
• Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo, Ph.D.
  Instructor
• 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