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.
Chae, Young Kwang
Associate Professor
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Personalized Cancer Therapy, Precision Medicine, Early Phase Clinical Trials, First-in-Human Study, Novel Combination Cancer Therapy, Targeted therapy, Immunotherapy, Biomarker Study, Novel Drug Devel... [more]
Chakravarti, Debabrata (Debu)
Professor
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My research is focused on understanding epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of human tumorigenesis. One research projects is focused on understanding the mechanisms that drives the development... [more]
Chandel, Navdeep
Professor
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My research focuses on mitochondria beyond ATP generation function as signaling organelles to control biological responses. My laboratory has provided evidence Thus, mitochondria serve as signaling or... [more]
Chandra, Sunandana
Associate Professor
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Studying novel biomarkers that may be used as prognostic and predictive tools in the management of melanoma and other advanced skin cancers, as well as cancer of unknown primary.
Chang, Catalina Lee
Assistant Professor
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My research is focused in elucidating fundamental aspects of primary brain tumors immunology. As neuroimmunologist by training, I am passionated to understand the inter-relationship within the immune ... [more]
Chaudhury, Sonali
Professor
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I am a pediatric stem sell transplanter with special interest in transplantation strategies to reduce toxicities, stem cell transplants for non-malignant disorders utilizing reduced intensity transpl... [more]
Chawla, Akhil
Assistant Professor, Clinical
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Dr. Chawla is a Hepatopancreatobiliary and Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncologist at Northwestern Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and membe... [more]
Chen, Jonathan
Assistant Professor
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We study how the immune response is organized in human cancer with the aim of developing new therapies. To do this, we employ cutting-edge genomic technologies and unbiased systems biology approaches ... [more]
Cheng, Shi-Yuan
Professor
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The primary goal of our research is to improve our understanding of molecular mechanisms of cancer tumorigenesis, invasion, metastases and angiogenesis, and to translate our novel discoveries to clini... [more]
Chisholm, Rex
Professor
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My research focuses on the application of informatics to the annotation and display of genomic information, and on the interface of genomics and informatics as it applies to the development of genomic... [more]