Christina Chan (Ph.D., Univ. of Pennslyvania), CHEMICAL ENGINEERING & MATERIALS SCIENCE - Signal transduction and crosstalk between apoptosis and insulin signaling, i.e. PKR signaling; identifying patheays for drug targets in liver diseases,Aalzhiemer's disease and cancer using experimental and computational techniques

Susan E. Conrad (Ph.D., Caltech), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Control of the mammalian cell cycle; estrogen regulation of breast cancer cell proliferation.

David DeWitt (Ph.D. Michigan State), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Molecular and cellular biology of lipid signaling by prostaglandins.

Walter J. Esselman (Ph.D., Penn State), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - The expression and function of lymphocyte CD45 protein tyrosine phospatase in the regulation of signaling, the cell cycle, and transformation.

Michele M. Fluck (Ph.D., Geneva), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Viral Oncology; oncogene activation of transcription factors and their effect on chromatin structure and DNA replication; mammary gland oncogenesis in mice and dependence upon estrogen.

Kathleen A. Gallo (Ph.D., Harvard), PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - We are studying the role of SPRK and of other novel protein kinases in mammalian signal transduction and cancer.

Sandra Z. Haslam (Ph.D., Berkeley), PHYSIOLOGY - Epithelial stromal cell interactions; regulation of mammary gland growth and function.

Will Kopachik (Ph.D., Princeton), ZOOLOGY - Gene expression in prostate gland development; transcription factors in development.

Veronica M. Maher (Ph.D., Wisconsin), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Mechanisms of chemical- and radiation-induced and genetic recombination in human cells; DNA repair: role of oncogenes in transformation.

J. Justin McCormick (Ph.D., Catholic University of America), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS AND BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - Molecular mechanisms of the chemical- and radiation--induced malignant transformation of human cells and the role of oncogenes in transformation..

Richard J. Miksicek (Ph.D., University of Minnesota), PHYSIOLOGY - Molecular endocrinology and breast cancer; steroid hormone receptors; gene expression.

Richard C. Schwartz (Ph.D., MIT), MICROBIOLOGY & MOLECULAR GENETICS - Transcriptional regulation of inflammation; hematopoietic differentiation; oncogenesis and regulation of cell growth.

Hua Xiao (Ph.D., Toronto ), PHYSIOLOGY - Mechanisms and roles of tumor suppressor genes in tumorigenesis.

Chengfeng Yang (Ph.D., Singapore), PHYSIOLOGY & VETERINARY MEDICINE - Growth factors and hormones-mediated tyrosine kinase and the small Rho GTPase signaling in cancer development and progression.

Tim R. Zacharewski (Ph.D., Texas A&M), BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND NATIONAL FOOD SAFETY & TOXICOLOGY CENTER - Molecular and biochemical toxicology; gene expression; endocrine disruption; functional genomics.

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