Cancer Biology

The following faculty members perform research in the area of cancer biology:

Christine BeckChristine Beck

Research: Investigating the mechanisms and consequences of repetitive element-mediated genomic rearrangements.

Areas of Research:
Cancer Biology
Computation and Modeling

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Irina BezsonovaIrina Bezsonova

Research: Structural biology of proteins.

Areas of Research:
Structural Biology and Biophysics
Cancer Biology

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Steven Chou

Steven Chou

Research: Structural basis of actin-based cell motility, cytokinesis, and transmembrane signaling.

Areas of Research:
Cancer Biology
Structural Biology and Biophysics
Cellular Pathways

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Bing HaoBing Hao

Research: Cell cycle regulation by ubiquitin-mediated proteolysis using x-ray crystallography as a primary tool.

Areas of Research:
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Structural Biology and Biophysics
Cancer Biology

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Christopher Heinen

Research: Biochemical and cellular defects of the DNA mismatch repair pathway during tumorigenesis.

Areas of Research:
Cancer Biology

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Dmitry KorzhnevDmitry Korzhnev

Research: Structural biology of proteins.

Areas of Research:
Structural Biology and Biophysics
Cancer Biology

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Julia Oh

Research: Our central goal is to develop microbiome therapeutics to treat human disease. We use diverse tools like genomics and synthetic biology to investigate our microbiome’s role in our health and engineer therapeutics.

Areas of Research:

Cancer Biology
Computation and Modeling
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

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Rebecca Page

Research: Our groups studies cell signaling, focusing on the chemical language that directs how extracellular and intracellular signals are communicated to and within the cell in both space and time.

Areas of Research:
Cancer Biology
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Structural Biology and Biophysics
Cellular Pathways

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Suzy TortiSuzy Torti

Research: Regulation of iron metabolism and the relationship between iron and cancer.

Areas of Research:
Cancer Biology

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