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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, 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]

Kalapurakal, John A.

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Wilms tumor radiation

Kalyan, Aparna

Kalyan, Aparna

Associate Professor

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My primary research focus is in early drug development in gastrointestinal malignancies. With a paradigm shift towards immunotherapy, my research is aimed at developing new and novel mechanisms of del... [more]

Karmali, Reem

Karmali, Reem

Associate Professor

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My research focuses on associations between disorders of energy metabolism and lymphoma pathogenesis. Specifically, my research has been driven by the hypothesis that cachexia is a metabolically and ... [more]

Kelleher, Neil

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Natural Products Discovery and Biosynthesis, Top Down Mass Spectrometry, and Epiproteomics.

Kelley, Shana

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Our research group works at the interface of Chemistry, Biology, Engineering and Medicine to develop new technologies for therapeutic discovery and development as well as new diagnostic approaches. U... [more]

Khan, Irum

Khan, Irum

Associate Professor

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Dr. Khan's research is focused on translation studies in myeloid malignancies. She focuses on identifying and validating therapeutic targets in myeloid leukemias using patient samples and animal ... [more]

Khan, Seema A.

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I am a Professor of Surgery, with training in Surgical Oncology, including a lab year that introduced me to molecular biology, followed by a Master’s Degree in Cancer Epidemiology. Since then, I hav... [more]