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Lurie Cancer Center Members

Membership in the Lurie Cancer Center is based on the investigator's cancer research focus and scholarly activity. A program assignment recommendation is made by the Executive Committee with final approval issued by the cancer center's director. Full members are assigned to a program in the Basic Science Research Division, the Clinical Science Research Division or the Cancer Prevention & Control Research Division. All members are welcome and encouraged to participate in any educational activities initiated by the Lurie Cancer Center.

Ji, Peng

Ji, Peng

Professor

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The research in my laboratory focuses on the studies of normal hematopoiesis and myeloid malignancies. Major research areas include: 1) Mechanistic studies of chromatin condensation during e... [more]

Ji, Zhe

Ji, Zhe

Assistant Professor

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Our group use high-throughput genomic technologies and computational modeling to study the regulation of gene transcription and RNA translation underlying oncogenic processes. We aim at revealing nove... [more]

Jin, Jing

Jin, Jing

Assistant Professor

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Our research focuses on the synthetic design of recombinant fusion proteins for biotherapeutic, diagnostic, and disease modeling purposes. One of the general themes of our designs is to achieve target... [more]

Joester, Derk

Joester, Derk

Associate Professor

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My research has been focused on understanding the mechanisms by which cells grow crystals; both in cell culture (see section C.2), and in cell-free, in vitro model systems (section C.3). An integral p... [more]

Johnson, Jodi Lynn

Johnson, Jodi Lynn

Research Assistant Professor

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I am a Scientific Director and the Basic Research Program Coordinator for the Lurie Cancer Center. I work to bring cross-disciplinary teams of researchers together to ask complex research questions, t... [more]

Joyce, Brian

Joyce, Brian

Research Assistant Professor

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Dr. Joyce’s research focuses on identifying epigenetic biomarkers of health-related environmental exposures and behaviors (pollutants, diet, exercise, etc.), in particular for social determinants of... [more]

Jungheim, Emily

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I am a practicing reproductive endocrinologist and health services researcher with a track record for collaborative translational research. In my roles as the Chief of Reproductive and Endocrinology ... [more]