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.
Apkarian, A. Vania
Professor
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Dr. Apkarian has been studying pain for over two decades, both in animal models and fMRI studies in humans. His current interests include cortical dynamics of pain as well as brain plasticity. His ove... [more]
Arango, Daniel
Assistant Professor
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We study the mechanisms by which post-transcriptional modifications of RNA regulate mRNA processing, stability, and translation and how this interplay affects cell fate decisions in cancer. By integra... [more]
Ardehali, Hossein
Professor
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Research interests: role of mitochondria and metabolism in cardiovascular disease; cellular iron regulation. Clinical interests: general and preventive cardiology.
Arispe, Luisa
Professor
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My research focuses on the signaling pathways that regulate vascular morphogenesis during development and in pathological settings. This effort that has resulted to approximately 190 peer-review publi... [more]
Arvanitis, Constadina
Research Associate Professor
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Dr. Arvanitis directs the Center for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) and Nikon Imaging Center(NIC)at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine. CAM exists to provide tra... [more]
Avella Patino, Diego
Assistant Professor
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My research is focused on lung cancer immunology and immunotherapy. My overarching goal is to improve the efficacy of anti cancer immunotherapy by understanding the mechanisms of tumor immune evasion ... [more]
Awatramani, Raj
Professor
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The goal of my research is to ensure that cancer center members can utilize the mouse as model system in the most effective manner, with full support from the core on key issues of acquisition, genera... [more]