Cancer Cell Signaling Program Members
Program Leaders
David L. Brautigan, PhD,
Program Co-Leader
Professor, Departments of
Microbiology and Internal Medicine and Director, Center for Cell
Signaling
Protein Phosphatases and kinase in cell cycle control.
J. Thomas Parsons, PhD, Program
Co-Leader
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology
Growth factor and adhesion signaling.
Full Program Members
Todd W. Bauer, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery
Pancreatic cancer in vivo models and molecular analysis.
Brett R. Blackman,
PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering
Mechanics of vascular flow, angiogenesis.
James E. Casanova, PhD
Professor of Cell
Biology
Role of small GTPases in membrane dynamics.
J. David Castle, PhD
Professor, Department of Cell
Biology
Intracellular vesicle trafficking and receptor internalization.
Stephen
Culp, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of
Urology
Molecular characterization of renal cell carcinoma, Resistance to targeted therapy in kidney cancer, Development of xenograft models in kidney and bladder cancer
Professor and Assistant Dean of
Research Support, Microbiology
Tumor-stromal interactions.
Daniel G. Gioeli, PhD
Associate Professor of Research, Department of Microbiology
Androgen receptor signaling in prostate cancer.
Robert M. Grainger,
PhD
Professor of Biology
Morphogenesis, development and genomics.
Barry M. Gumbiner, PhD
Professor and Chair, Cell
Biology
Cell-cell adhesion, cadherins, catenins.
Michael A. Harding, PhD
Assistant Professor of Research, Urology
Professor of Cell Biology
Cell adhesion and migration.
Mark J. Jameson, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology
Biology and treatment of head and neck cancers.
David Kashatus, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, Immuniology and
Cancer Biology
Interaction of oncogenes with mitochondrial dynamics machinery
Christopher Moskaluk, MD,
PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology
Molecular pathogenesis of human cancers.
Professor of Molecular Physiology
& Biological Physics
Tissue differentiation and epithelial mesenchymal transition.
Jason A. Papin, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical
Engineering
Systems biology in cancer models.
Lucy F. Pemberton, PhD
Associate Professor
Histone chaperones, nuclear import, epigenetics.
Neveen Said, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Research, Urology
Dennis J. Templeton, MD,
PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of
Pathology
Chemoprovention and kinase signaling.
Scott B. Vande Pol, MD,
PhD
Associate Professor, Department of
Pathology
Papilloma virus oncogenes and tumor suppressors.
Michael J. Weber, PhD
Professor, Department of
Microbiology
Director, UVA Cancer
Center
MAP kinase signaling, combinatorial drug therapies for melanoma.
Associate Program Members
Professor of Orthopaedic
Surgery
Bone differentiation and stem cells.
Jeffrey T. Corwin, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology and
Neurosciences
Mechano-sensing and stem-cell regeneration.
Associate Professor of Medicine , Gastroenterology and
Hepatology
Protein Phosphorylation and Gastrointestinal Cancer Cell Signaling.
Kyle Hoehn, PhD
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology
Professor, Department of
Anesthesiology
Protein Kinase C signaling.
Dorothy A. Schafer,
PhD
Associate Professor of
Biology
Cytoskeleton and cell migration.
