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]
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]
Backman, Vadim
Professor
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My research focus bridges advances in biophotonics and cancer research. The work spans from the basic physics of light-tissue interaction to development of new optical imaging and sensing technologies... [more]
Bagci, Ulas
Associate Professor
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Machine Learning for Biomedical Imaging Artificial Intelligence for Medicine. Specifically, I have been focusing on two sub-fields of AI: 1) explainable/interpretable deep learning and 2) human-center... [more]
Balyasnikova, Irina
Professor
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My research focuses on the development of novel targeted approaches for the treatment of malignant brain tumors. In particular, I am interested in developing and utilizing antibodies and genetically e... [more]
Bao, Xiaomin
Associate Professor
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The human body is composed of various morphologically and functionally distinctive cell types, yet they all share the same genome. My group is interested in characterizing how the genome is controlled... [more]