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1 | Labs or Groups by researcher name [lead] added when individuals have research staff | Email / Chip | Lead / PI name(s) and bio link | School / College | Department / Subunit | Focus of Research | Program Area(s) | Video(s) | Experts@Minnesota | Additional Links | MCC Leadership Link (if applicable) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Adamala (Kate) Lab - Prototyping Biology | Kate Adamala | Kate Adamala, PhD | Biological Sciences | Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development | Building semi-synthetic minimal cells | Genetic Mechanisms | adama009@umn.edu | https://experts.umn.edu/en/persons/kate-adamala | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Advanced Research and Diagnostics Laboratory (ARDL, primary group) | Anna Prizment Bharat Thyagarajan | Anna Prizment, PhD Bharat Thyagarajan, MD, PhD, MPH | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | AP: chronic disease epidemiologist who studies blood, tissue, and genetic biomarkers in cancer, dementia and other age-related diseases BT: genetic susceptibility to breast cancer. I am also interested in studying the role of DNA repair pathways in determining outcomes after chemotherapy and hematopoietic cell transplants | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship", Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Aihara (Hideki) [lead] | aihar001@umn.edu | Hideki Aihara, PhD | Biological Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics | how cancer-causing mutations are introduced by the APOBEC3B cytosine deaminase. Our approach is to use x-ray cyrstallography and elucidate three-dimensional structure of the enzyme and enzyme-DNA complexes | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Aksan (Alptekin) BioGelLabs | aaksan@umn.edu | Alptekin Aksan, PhD | Science and Engineering | Mechanical Engineering | capabilities of biologicals with synthetic materials to make new reactive materials with novel properties | Cellular Mechanisms | Alptekin Aksan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Alam (Amer) Structural Biology of Membrane Transport | aalam@umn.edu | Amer Alam, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | membrane transport proteins whose dysfunction leads to aberrant peroxisomal functioning and biogenesis and its subsequent effect on cancer progression through aberrant metabolic functions and evasion immune response | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Aliota (Matthew) Lab | mtaliota@umn.edu | Matthew Aliota, PhD | Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences | ways that viruses evolve within individual hosts, and during transmission to new hosts, to do things like evade detection from innate and adaptive immunity or acquire the ability to infect new cell, tissue, and host types | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Allen (Sharon) [lead] | allen001@umn.edu | Sharon Allen, MD, PhD | Medical School | Family Medicine and Community Health | Tobacco cessation research; with specific interest in effects of menopause and menstrual cycle on smoking cessation in women, additional interest in smokeless tobacco cessation and CV risk | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Allred (Jeremy) Lab | allred@umn.edu | Jeremy Allred, MD | Medical School | Medicine | Immunology of Cancer, Bone Marrow Transplant and Cellular Therapy, Immune Therapy, Stem Cell Biology, Developmental Hematopoiesis | Transplant and Cellular Therapy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Analytical Biochemistry Shared Resource | villa001@umn.edu | Peter Villalta, PhD | Office of Academic Clinical Affairs | Cancer Center | mass spectrometric measurement of trace constituents of biological fluids and tissues. My research interests involve using this expertise to measure levels of various compounds upon exposure of the body to carcinogens | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Arriaga (Edgar) Organelle Research Group | Edgar Arriaga | Edgar Arriaga, PhD | Science and Engineering | Chemistry | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Artinger (Kristin) lab | kartinge@umn.edu | Kristin Artinger, PhD | Dentistry | Research and Discovery | molecular and genetic mechanisms involved in the development of the neural crest | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Asakura (Atsushi) Lab | asakura@umn.edu | Atsushi Asakura, PhD | Medical School | Neurology | molecular mechanisms controlling muscle satellite cell (muscle stem cell) self-renewal and differentiation, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and rhabdomyosarcomas | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Aslanidi (George) Molecular Bioengineering and Cancer Vaccine | gaslanid@umn.edu | George Aslanidi, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | Viral vectors, AAV, gene therapy, cancer vaccine | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Azarin (Samira) Research Group | azarin@umn.edu | Samira Azarin, PhD | Science and Engineering | Chemical Engineering and Materials Science | stem cell engineering and development of systems to study and control breast cancer progression and metastasis. I am interested in elucidating mechanisms of dormancy and activation in disseminated breast cancer cells | Immunology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Bailey (Zinzi) [lead] | zbailey@umn.edu | Zinzi Bailey, ScD, MSPH | Public Health | Epidemiology and Community Health | lung and gynecological cancer disparities across the cancer continuum | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Balbo (Silvia) Research Group | balbo006@umn.edu | Silvia Balbo, PhD | Public Health | Environmental Health Sciences | interaction of DNA and chemicals to investigate how lifestyle and environment exposures cause disease | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Bartolomucci (Alessandro) Laboratory | abartolo@umn.edu | Alessandro Bartolomucci, PhD | Medical School | Integrative Biology and Physiology | integrative approach to animal patho-physiology which combines state-of-the-art in vivo models with cellular models and molecular techniques | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | Animal Models for the Social Dimension of Health and Aging Research Network | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Batchelor (Eric) Lab | ebatchel@umn.edu | Eric Batchelor , PhD | Medical School | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Bazurto (Jannell) Lab | jbazurto@umn.edu | Jannell Bazurto, PhD | Biological Sciences | Plant and Microbial Sciences | formaldehyde-induced cell damage and formaldehyde stress response in a model bacterium with a formaldehyde-centric metabolism where formaldehyde is an obligate central intermediate that is maintained in millimolar concentrations | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Bazzaro (Martina) Lab | mbazzaro@umn.edu | Martina Bazzaro, PhD | Medical School | Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health | targeted therapies based on inhibition of proteolytic pathways in the treatment of both ovarian and cervical cancer | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Beckman (Joan) Lab | beckm092@umn.edu | Joan Beckman, MD, PhD | Medical School | Medicine | mechanisms of bleeding and thrombosis in patients with malignancies | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Belcher (John) Lab | belcher@umn.edu | John Belcher, PhD | Medical School | Medicine | cell signaling pathways promoting innate immune toll-like receptor and complement-mediated signaling and the countervailing anti-inflammatory pathways that oppose innate immune inflammation in hematologic diseases | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Bemis (Lynne) Lab | ltbemis@umn.edu | Lynne Bemis, PhD | Medical School, Duluth Campus | Medical School, Duluth Campus | deep sequencing of urine biomarkers for ovarian cancer, extracellular RNA and exosomes in melanoma, brain tumors and ovarian cancer. | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Biostatistics Shared Resource | J. Sunil Rao | J. Sunil Rao, PhD | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Blaes (Anne) [lead] | Anne Blaes | Anne Blaes, MD | Medical School | Medicine | cancer survivorship, the late effects of cancer therapy, and medical education | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Blazar (Bruce) Laboratory | blaza001@umn.edu | Bruce Blazar, MD | Medical School | Pediatrics | BMT: graft-versus-host disease, graft-versus-leukemia, BMT - mouse/human tumor immunotherapy | Transplant and Cellular Therapy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Blood Bank Laboratory | cscohn@umn.edu | Claudia Cohn, MD, PhD | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | Transmission of infectious disease via donor stem cell product to patients receiving hematopoietic stem cell transplant; the recovering immune system in engrafted transplant patients; mechanisms of tolerance & accommodation in solid organ transplant | Transplant and Cellular Therapy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Bode (Anne) Cancer Biomarkers and Drug Resistance | bodex008@umn.edu | Ann Bode, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | Molecular and cellular biology of cancer development | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Boehnke (Natalie) Research Group | nboehnke@umn.edu | Natalie Boehnke, PhD | Science and Engineering | Chemical Engineering and Materials Science | improving the fundamental understanding of nanoparticle properties and their interactions with the biological environment to rationally address unmet needs in cancer treatment | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Bolan (Patrick) Lab | bola0035@umn.edu | Patrick Bolan, PhD | Medical School | Radiology | techniques for magnetic resonance imaging and spectroscopy of breast cancer, and evaluating their efficacy for diagnosing suspect lesions and monitoring response to chemotherapy | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Boris-Lawrie (Kathleen) Retrovirus and RNA Biology | Kathleen Boris-Lawrie | Kathleen Boris-Lawrie, PhD | Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences | Retroviruses that cause cancer and AIDS; stress-regulated translation control; noncoding RNA and epitranscriptomics; bioinformatic, genomic and proteomic approaches; biophysical, molecular and structural biology tools; transdisciplinary teams | Genetic Mechanisms | Host-Pathogen Interface biology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Bosnakovski (Darko) Lab | darko@umn.edu | Darko Bosnakovski, DVM, PhD | Medical School | Pediatrics | Understanding molecular mechanisms by which oncogenes with pioneer transcription activity induce epigenetic modification, which leads to malignant transformation | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Bushnell (Grace) Oncomaterials Research Group (ORG) | ggb@umn.edu | Grace Bushnell, PhD | Science and Engineering | Biomedical Engineering | breast cancer dormancy, using biomaterials and immune-competent models to explore immune regulation of dormancy and identify therapeutic targets to prevent metastatic recurrence | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Camell (Christina) Lab | ccamell@umn.edu | Christina Camell, PhD | Medical School | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics | inflammation and immunosenescence, using mouse models and a wide range of techniques to investigate the cellular and molecular mechanisms. With Dr. Beshay Zordoky, we have projects investigating chemotherapy-induced immunosenescence | Immunology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Campbell (Colin) Lab | campb034@umn.edu | Colin Campbell, PhD | Medical School | Pharmacology | understanding the repair of DNA damage induced by bifunctional alkylating agents. We are also interested in the molecular etiology of cancer and associated DNA repair defects observed in cells from patients with Fanconi anemia | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Cancer Bioengineering Initiative | Our team | David Odde, PhD and Paolo Provenzano, PhD | various | various | Doubling the success rate of cancer trials through engineering | Cellular Mechanisms | Cancer Bioengineering Initiative | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Cancer Bioinformatics Shared Resource | wangjh@umn.edu | Jinhua Wang, PhD | Office of Academic and Clinical Affairs | BioMedical Health Informatics | Computational analysis of high-throughput cancer genomics data especially as it relates to high-throughput data mining and modeling, heterogeneous genomics data integration, comparative genomics, integrating copy number variation, gene expression profiling, sequence somatic mutations and proteomic data, and novel methods development. | Unaffilliated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Cancer Genomics Shared Resource | hirsc003@umn.edu | Betsy Hirsch, PhD | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | chromosomal instability disorders; inherited conditions which predispose to the development of malignancy (e.g. Fanconi anemia, ataxia telangiectasia, Bloom syndrome) | Unaffilliated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Cancer Genomics Shared Resource | kbeckman@umn.edu | Kenny Beckman, PhD | Genomics Center | Biomedical Genomics | Cancer Genomics Shared Resource Co-Director | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Cancer Informatics Shared Resource | Steve Johnson | Steve Johnson, PhD | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Cancer Research Translational Initiative (CRTI) | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Carlson (Cathy) [lead] | carls099@umn.edu | Cathy Carlson, DVM, PhD, DACVP | Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary Population Medicine | interpretation of neoplastic leasions in animal models | Unaffilliated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Carroll (Dana) [lead] | dcarroll@umn.edu | Dana Carroll, PhD, MPH | Public Health | Environmental Health Sciences | epidemiologist committed to reducing health disparities driven by commercial tobacco use. Recently I have been working with American Indian communities on developing personalized and cultural-tailored approaches to smoking cessation | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Chen (Liam) Neuropathology & IHC Laboratory | llchen@umn.edu | Liam Chen, MD, PhD | Medical School | Neuropathology | CNS tumor, including its neuropathology and molecular pathology aspects | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Clarke (Duncan) Lab | Duncan Clarke | Duncan Clarke, PhD | Biological Sciences | Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development | mechanisms that dictate faithful genome transmission | ​ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Clinical Trials Office (CTO) | Melissa Geller, MD | ​ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (CAIR) | martinm@umn.edu | Martin Michalowski, PhD, FAMIA | Nursing | Population Health and Systems | Information integration, heuristic-based planning, constraint satisfaction problems, and my research brings advanced artificial intelligence methods to clinical decision support at the point of care and to personalized medicine | Transplant and Cellular Therapy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Research Lab (CAIR) | kotly001@umn.edu | Michael Kotlyar, PharmD | Pharmacy | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology | a) how various pharmocotherapies affect smoking behavior b) the relationship between smoking and stress response and c) the effect of psychiatric pharmacotherapy on the physiologic response to mental stress | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Comparative and Molecular Biosciences | (various) | Veterinary Medicine | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Comparative Pathology Shared Resource | dseelig@umn.edu | Davis Seelig, DVM, PhD, ACVP | Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary Clinical Sciences | Comparative neuropathology with interest in brain bystander effects of cancer treatment (principally radiation). | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Coordinating Centers for Biometric Research (CCBR) | reill017@umn.edu | Cavan Reilly, PhD | Public Health | Biostatistics and Health Data Science | genetic transmission of cancer risk | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Data Science and AI Hub (DSAI Hub) | Genevieve Melton-Meaux | Genevieve Melton-Meaux, MD, PhD | Transplant and Cellular Therapy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Davydova (Julia) Lab | davyd003@umn.edu | Julia Davydova, MD, PhD | Medical School | Surgery | development of new oncolytic-virus based therapeutic and imaging modalities for pancreatic cancer, combination of oncolytic virus with immunotherapy and/or chemo-radiation to establish effective therapies for treatment-resistant cancer, and development of in vivo cancer models | Genetic Mechanisms | Impact Surgery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Debes (Jose) Lab | debes003@umn.edu | Jose Debes, MD, MS | Medical School | Medicine | Progression of viral hepatitis to hCC; Biomarkers for HCC in South America; Interplay between HBV and HCC in Africa | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Dehm (Scott) Lab | dehm@umn.edu | Scott Dehm, PhD | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | Androgen receptor & prostate cancer | Cellular Mechanisms | Research Video | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Dickerson (Erin) Lab | edickers@umn.edu | Erin Dickerson, PhD | Veterinary Medicine | Veterinary Clinical Sciences | Development of peptides as novel anti-cancer agents for ovarian cancer. Creation of bifunctional peptide/cytokine reagents as unique targeting combinations. Peptide targeted delivery of nanoparticles and their payloads | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Distefano (Mark) Research Group | diste001@umn.edu | Mark Distefano, PhD | Science and Engineering | Chemistry | protein prenylation | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Dong (Xiao) Laboratory | dong0265@umn.edu | Xiao Dong | Biological Sciences | causal mechanisms of human aging | Genetic Mechanisms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Dorr (Casey) Lab | dorr0022@umn.edu | Casey Dorr, PhD | Medical School | Medicine | molecular and cellular mechanisms of kidney allograft loss with spatialomics, genomics, transcriptomics and clinical outcomes data. We also use pharmacogenomics to develop personalize medicine through cell culture assays | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Drake (Justin) [lead] | jdrake@umn.edu | Justin Drake, PhD | Medical School | Pharmacology | Signaling networks in lethal metastatic castration resistant prostate cancer | Cellular Mechanisms | Research Video | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Duluth Global Health Research Institute | malabsi@umn.edu | Mustafa al'Absi, PhD | Medical School, Duluth Campus | Medical School, Duluth Campus | Examining behavioral and psychobiological risk factors of cigarette smoking and stress | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Ebbini (Emad) Ultrasound Imaging and Signal Processing Lab | emad@umn.edu | Emad Ebbini, PhD | Science and Engineering | Electrical and Computer Engineering | imaging and therapy with ultrasound phased-array systems. | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Eli Coleman Institute for Sexual and Gender Health (primary group) | Abby Girard | Abby Girard, PsyD, LMFT | Medical School | Family Medicine and Community Health | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Elmquist (William) Lab | elmqu011@umn.edu | William Elmquist, PharmD, PhD | Pharmacy | Pharmaceutics | Pharmacokinetics, Membrane transporters, CNS drug delivery | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Engelhart (Aaron) Laboratory | Aaron Engelhart | Aaron Engelhart, PhD | Biological Sciences | Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development | Engineering RNA-based tools to probe and manipulate biological systems | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology (ECP) | Robert Straka | Robert J. Straka, PharmD, FCCP | Pharmacy | Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Farrar (Michael) Lab | farra005@umn.edu | Michael Farrar, PhD | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | mechanisms by which the serine/threonine kinase Rof is activated and on the role that the Ras/Rof pathway plays in regulating lymphocyte development | Immunology | Research Video | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Ferguson (David) Research Group | ferguson@umn.edu | David Ferguson, PhD | Pharmacy | Medicinal Chemistry | Therapeutic development with an emphasis on DNA binding agents that disrupt topoisomerase function in cell proliferation | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Ferreira (Clara) Brachytherapy Research Lab | cferreir@umn.edu | Clara Ferreira, PhD | Medical School | Radiation Oncology | Radiation Therapy outcomes, Permanent Radioactive Brain implants, Treatment outcomes, health disparities, gyn brachytherapy, ocular brachytherapy | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Fife (Brian) Lab | bfife@umn.edu | Brian Fife, PhD | Medical School | Medicine | biology of the CTLA-4 and PD-1 pathways, and applying novel methods to deliver signals through these pathways to control autoimmunity, prevent transplanted tissue rejection and eliminate tumors | Immunology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Flow Cytometry Shared Resource | flowsort Flow Cytometry Core Facility Sorting | flowcytometry.umn.edu | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Foo Lab - Cancer progression | Jasmine Foo | Jasmine Foo, PhD | Science and Engineering | Mathematics | Cellular progression | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Freedman (Tanya) Lab | tfreedma@umn.edu | Tanya Freedman, PhD | Medical School | Pharmacology | how inflammation modulates macrophage responsiveness, including in the inflammatory tumormicroenvironment, especially in breast cancer. We also investigate regulation of proto-oncogenic signaling proteins like the Src family kinases | Immunology | Research Video | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Freeman (Michael) Lab | Michael Freeman | Michael Freeman, PhD | Biological Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics | Natural product biosynthesis | Microbial genetics | Targeted metagenomics | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | French (Jerrod) Nucleotide Metabolism & Drug Discovery | jfrench@umn.edu | Jarrod French, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | regulation of nucleotide metabolism in humans | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Furcht (Leo) [lead] | furch001@umn.edu | Leo Furcht, MD | Medical School | Lab Medicine and Pathology | extracellular matrix, metastasis, wound healing | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Gardner (Melissa) Lab | klei0091@umn.edu | Melissa Gardner, PhD | Biological Sciences | Genetics, Cell Biology and Development | experimental and computational approach to dissect molecular mechanisms for how cells divide, and for how cell division can be controlled to prevent genetic diseases, pathogenic anti-fungal drug resistance, and cancer | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Geller (Melissa) [lead] | Melissa Geller, MD | Melissa Geller, MD | Medical School | Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women's Health | works a lot with the Miller Lab | Transplant and Cellular Therapy | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Genome Engineering Shared Resource | gesr University of Minnesota | Beau Webber Branden Moriarity | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Georg (Gunda I.) Research Group | georg@umn.edu | Gunda Georg, PhD | Pharmacy | Medicinal Chemistry | Medicinal chemistry; design, synthesis, and evaluation of synthetic and natural product-derived anticancer agents; drug discovery by HTS | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Giubellino (Alessio) Lab | agiubell@umn.edu | Alessio Giubellino, MD, PhD | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | understanding the molecular mechanisms and signaling pathways in melanoma with the goal of developing predictive biomarkers and combination therapies for the disease | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Goldstrohm (Aaron) Lab | agoldstr@umn.edu | Aaron Goldstrohm, PhD | Biological Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics | Regulation of gene expression by RNA-binding proteins and ribonucleases, and their roles in developmental biology and human disease. | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Gopalakrishnan & Koutlas Oral Pathology Laboratory | koutl001@umn.edu | Ioannis Koutlas, DDS, MS | Dentistry | Diagnostic and Biological Science | Mutation analysis, clonality analysis, gene therapy | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Gopalakrishnan & Koutlas Oral Pathology Laboratory | gopal007@umn.edu | Rajaram Gopalakrishnan, BDS, PhD | Dentistry | Diagnostic and Biological Science | signaling & transcriptional control mechanisms regulating genes involved in bone mineralization. | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | Gopalakrishnan & Koutlas Oral Pathology Laboratory | Zachary Davis PhD | Zach Davis, PhD | Medical School | Medicine | ​ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Gordon (Peter) Lab | gord0047@umn.edu | Peter Gordon, MD, PhD | Medical School | Pediatrics | i) developing approaches for overcoming bone marrow stromal cell mediated chemoresistance in AML and ii) how factors secreted by cells within the leukemia microenvironment impact leukemia development and response to therapy | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Gordon (Wendy) Lab | wrgordon@umn.edu | Wendy Gordon, PhD | Biological Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics | molecular mechanisms of how cells sense and respond to mechanical forces. We also develop tools to allow high-throughput readouts of cellular mechanical phenotypes to identify mechanosensors that drive malignant mechanotypes | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Gradilone (Sergio) Cancer Cell Biology & Translational Research | sgradilo@umn.edu | Sergio Gradilone, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | Tumor cell biology and translational research, Primary cilia in tumor biology | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Griffin (Timothy) Center for Metabolomics and Proteomics | tgriffin@umn.edu | Timothy Griffin | Biological Sciences | Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics | Genetic Mechanisms | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Griffith (Thomas) Lab | tgriffit@umn.edu | Thomas Griffith, PhD | Medical School | Urology | Tumor immunology, apoptosis | Immunology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Guinovart (David) Mathematical, Computational, and Statistical Modeling | guino001@umn.edu | David Guinovart, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | applied mathematics, focusing on mathematical modeling in biomedicine, including cancer, nutrition, cell proliferation, and epidemiology, to provide insights and solutions in these areas | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Gurvich (Vadim) GMP Manufacturing Services | vadimg@umn.edu | Vadim Gurvich, PhD, MBA | Pharmacy | Medicinal Chemistry | Organic and medicinal chemistry; synthesis of carcinogenic agents; PAH-DNA adduction; chemical process development; synthesis of anti-cancer agents for pre-clinical and clinical applications | Carcinogenesis and Chemoprevention | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Hackel (Benjamin) Research Group | hackel@umn.edu | Benjamin Hackel, PhD | Science and Engineering | Chemical Engineering and Materials Science | protein engineering to molecular imaging to enable detection and characterization of cancer | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Hafenstein (Susan)- Cryogenic-Sample Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) | hafen@umn.edu | Susan Hafenstein, PhD | Research & Innovation Office | The Hormel Institute | human papillomavirus using a structural approach. The research focus is mechanisms of cellular entry and location and structure of the highly conserved minor structural protein, L2 | Genetic Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Hamilton-Hart (Sara) Lab | hamil062@umn.edu | Sara Hamilton Hart, PhD | Medical School | Laboratory Medicine and Pathology | CD8 T cell activation, T cell memory generation and maintenance, enhance protective immunity, inhibiting T cell pathology | Immunology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | Harki (Daniel) Laboratory | daharki@umn.edu | Daniel Harki, PhD | Pharmacy | Medicinal Chemistry | synthesis and characterization of small molecules that influence cellular function. We are particularly interested in reactive natural products and analogues, and modified nucleosides as potential anticancer agents | Cellular Mechanisms | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Harris (Reuben) Lab | Reuben Harris | Reuben Harris, PhD | Office of Academic Clinical Affairs | Institute for Health Informatics | HHMI investigator, is a leading cancer and HIV research facility | (Not a member) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Hart (Geoffrey) [lead] | hart0792@umn.edu | Geoffrey Hart, PhD | Medical School | Medicine | innate immunity, particularly NK cells and antibody dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) | Immunology | Geoffrey T Hart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Hatsukami (Dorothy) [lead] | hatsu001@umn.edu | Dorothy Hatsukami, PhD | Medical School | Psychiatry | characterization and treatment of nicotine dependence; treatment of special populations including women, adolescents and spit tobacco users | "Screening, Prevention, Etiology and Cancer Survivorship" |