Faculty & Staff
Variety 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.
Primary Faculty
- Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
The John M. O'Quinn Endowed Chair in Cancer Research - Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D.
Professor
Harry Carothers Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research - Xi Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Simon Eschweiler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Zhen Fan, M.D.
Professor - Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D.
Professor
John Q. Gaines Foundation Professorship for Cancer Research
- Guang Peng, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor - William K. Plunkett, Ph.D.
Professor
Barnts Distinguished Chair
Associate Vice President, Research Integrity - Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D.
Professor - Zahid H. Siddik, Ph.D.
Professor - Hojong Yoon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Sara Zanivan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Faculty
- Paola Amero, Ph.D.
Instructor - Gamze Bildik Elcik, Ph.D.
Instructor - Rong Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Izabela Fokt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Fernanda Grande Kugeratski, Ph.D.
Instructor
- Xue Hao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Zhen Lu, M.D.
Professor - Cristian Rodriguez-Aguayo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Janice Santiago-O'Farrill, Ph.D.
Instructor - Liyong Zeng, Ph.D.
Instructor
Professors Emeriti
- David Farquhar, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - Walter N. Hittelman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
- Robert A. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - Michael G. Rosenblum, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Joint Appointments
- Elizabeth A. Grimm, Ph.D.
Professor
Melanoma Medical Oncology, Research
- Robert Z. Orlowski, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Lymphoma and Myeloma
Adjunct Faculty
- Martin Pichler, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Trainees
- Shravani Barkund
Graduate Research Assistant - Na Ding
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Yiming Fang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Carlos Flores Suarez
Postdoctoral Fellow - Janardan Nanda Gavade
Postdoctoral Fellow - Suyeon Hong
Postdoctoral Fellow - Sieun Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow - Hugo Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow - Chengguo Li
Postdoctoral Fellow - Liping Liao
Postdoctoral Fellow - Xiaojin Luan
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Ayumu Matsuoka
Postdoctoral Fellow - Thi Hong Minh Nguyen
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Hao Nie
Postdoctoral Fellow - Rumeysa Ozyurt
Postdoctoral Fellow - Mahrima Parvin
Postdoctoral Fellow - Marc Pina
Graduate Research Assistant - Cuipeng Qiu
Postdoctoral Fellow - Sherin George Shaji
Postdoctoral Fellow - Shruthi Sriramkumar
Postdoctoral Fellow - Mitsutake Yano
Postdoctoral Fellow - Qingyu Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Tiantian Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Staff
- Yuling Chen
Research Investigator - Xueqian Cheng
Research Scientist - Gwendolyn Corrigan, M.S.N., R.N.
Advanced Practice Registered Nurse - Yao Ding
Research Laboratory Manager - Edward Felix
Mass Spectrometry Specialist - Kristyn Grimes
Coordinator, Clinical Studies
- Guangan He
Research Scientist - Arumugam Jayakumar
Research Scientist - Sharlene Kohring
Database Coordinator
- Jian Kuang
Sr. Research Scientist - Anita Lee
Sr. Research Assistant - Yang Lu
Supervisor, Laboratory & Research - Qin Luo
Research Scientist
- Xiangdong Lyu
Research Scientist - Weiqun Mao
Research Investigator - Van Nguyen
Research Asst II - Songbo Qiu
Research Scientist - Alexandra Sanchez
Coordinator, Clinical Studies - Amari Sockwell
Sr. Research Assistant - Stanislaw Skora
Research Scientist - Oliver Wang
Research Asst II - Ping Xiong
Research Scientist - Longyong Xu
Sr Research Scientist - Hailing Yang
Sr Research Scientist - Xu Zhang
Research Investigator - Rafal Zielinski
Supervisor, Laboratory & Research
Administrative Professionals
- Ingrid O. Abella
Sr Financial Analyst
- Negar Adib
Program Manager - Jennifer L. Bales
Grant Program Manager
- Gina K. Dimiceli
Administrative Director - Bao Huong Hoang
Department Administrator - April D. Holubar
Associate Director, Res Planning & Dev
- Roseann M. Martinez
Operations Manager - Mary L. Patterson
Grant Program Manager - Katherine S. Robinson
Senior Administrative Assistant - Tara Spittler
Senior Administrative Assistant - Grace A. Taupo
Program Manager - DaRonia Taylor
Grant Program Manager
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