Student Research / Research AreasCancer Biotechnology
Student Research
/ Research Areas
Research focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of cancer, and developing diagnostics and drugs for its cure. The most cross-disciplinary of contemporary research areas, cancer biotechnology research includes scientists from medicine, biology, physics and engineering disciplines.
Faculty
Faculty members in cancer biotechnology include:
- Irina Budunova
- Elizabeth Eklund
- Qingshen Gao
- Roger Kroes
- Joshua Leonard
- Hidayatulah Munshi
- Amy Paller
- Marcus Peter
- Leonidas Platanias
- Alexander Stegh
- Teresa Woodruff
- Jindan Yu
- Ming Zhang
Student Publications
Fu-Nien Tsai '09
- “The significant role of mast cells in cancer.” Cancer and Metastasis Reviews. March 2011.
- “PI3K/AKT Signaling Is Essential for Communication between Tissue-Infiltrating Mast Cells, Macrophages, and Epithelial Cells in Colitis-Induced Cancer.” Clinical Cancer Research. May 1, 2013.
- “Methods for the study of mast cells in cancer.” Methods Molecular Biology. 2015.
Chintan Chheda '10
- “Characterization of mouse models of early pancreatic lesions induced by alcohol and chronic pancreatitis.” Pancreas. November 1, 2014.
Kenichi Iwadate '10
- “Differential targeting of androgen and glucocorticoid receptors induces ER stress and apoptosis in prostate cancer cells: A novel therapeutic modality.” Cell Cycle. January 15, 2012.
Sayali Kale Kandari '10
- “Loss of the F-BAR protein CIP4 reduces platelet production by impairing membrane-cytoskeleton remodeling.” Blood. June 3, 2013.
Stefanie Kall '10
- “Genes That Mediate Metastasis Organotropism.” Metastatic Cancer: Clinical and Biological Perspectives. 2013.
Yuanming Xu '11
- “Use of an organotypic mammalian in vitro follicle growth (IVFG) assay to facilitate female reproductive toxicity screening.” Reproduction, Fertility and Development. February 18, 2015.
- “Engineering the ovarian cycle using in vitro follicle culture.” Human reproduction. March 16, 2015.
- “The inorganic anatomy of the mammalian preimplantation embryo and the requirement of zinc during the first mitotic divisions.” Development Dynamics. July 16, 2015.
More in this section
- Research Areas
- Biomaterials
- Cardiovascular Biology & Transplantation Biology
- Cell & Molecular Biology
- Developmental Biology & Neurobiology
- Diagnostics & Medical Devices
- Drug Discovery & Delivery
- Microbial & Environmental Biotechnology
- Nanobiotechnology
- Stem Cell Biology
- Sustainability & Global Health Biotechnology
- Synthetic & Systems Biology