Profiles in "Cancer" Expertise Area

  • Maley is a biologist who specializes in cancer, evolution and computational biology. He works at the intersection of these fields.
  • Capco is a cell biologist who studies how different types of cells in the human body relate to disease, illness, and birth defects.
  • Goldstein studies genes involved in developmental processes and in learning and memory. His focus is communication of this information and other educational material in molecular biology and molecular genetics.
  • Associate Research Professor J. Charles Chapuis screens labs of potential new anticancer drugs from marine, insect, and plant natural products; manages microbiology laboratories, and works on drug discovery.
  • Omar Khdour’s research focuses on the vital role of mitochondrial energy metabolism in human health, wellness, and disease.
  • Lake is a cellular and molecular immunologist who is working on biologic inhibitors of tumor cell metastasis. He is also developing a new test for Valley Fever that provides a diagnosis for patients with acute disease.
  • Dr. Shengxi Chen focuses on developing new therapeutic agents for treatment of breast cancers; and developing new detection methods to diagnose dengue and SAR-CoV-2 RNAs . 
  • Dr. Bussey is a cancer cytogeneticist and applied bioinformatician developing tools to help oncologists fully integrate genomics into their current medical data streams to realize the promise of precision medicine.