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.
Wu, Jennifer
Professor
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Research in my laboratory include these specific aspects: 1) mechanisms of cancer immune evasion; 2) development of novel cancer immunotherapy; 3) Immune therapy-related mucosal toxicity; 4) mechanism... [more]
Yanez, Betina
Associate Professor
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An emerging area of her work involves patient-centered precision oncology. Her ongoing work in this area aims to develop a patient-centered intervention that is feasible, scalable and embedded within ... [more]
Yang, Rendong
Associate Professor
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The Yang Lab is interested in the integrative analysis of large-scale datasets to understand the initiation and progression of diseases. The research projects involve in the development of highly accu... [more]
Yi, Rui
Professor
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Mammalian skin and its appendages function as the outermost barrier of the body to protect inner organs from environmental hazards and keep essential fluid within. Our research program studies mechani... [more]
Yi, Yang
Assistant Professor
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The goal of Dr. Yi's research centers on uncovering the previously unrecognized functions of epigenetic modification during normal and pathological bioprocesses, and decoding the potential crosst... [more]
Yue, Feng
Professor
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The long-term goal of Dr. Yue's group is to use a combination of high throughput genomics, computational modeling, and functional assays to study how genetic variants contribute to the pathogenes... [more]
Zhang, Bin
Professor
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Cancer immunology and immunotherapy.The Zhang laboratory functions as an integrated translational research program with the goal of designing and developing new immunotherapies and immunologic strateg... [more]
Zhang, Christine
Assistant Professor
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My lab is interested in understanding how genetic and epigenetic factors cooperates to initiate leukemogenesis and other hematological malignancies.
Zhang, Hao
Professor
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The Functional Optical Imaging Lab (FOIL) at Northwestern University is dedicated to develop novel optical, ultrasonic, and electrical imaging techniques for biomedical research and clinical... [more]
Zhang, Peng
Assistant Professor
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The goal of Dr. Zhang's research is to establish the feasibility of precisely targeting and modulating brain tumors and the surrounding immune microenvironment as new translatable therapeutic approach... [more]