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.
Abaza, Yasmin
Assistant Professor
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I am a clinical researcher with a specialized focus on targeted therapies for patients with myeloid malignancies. I have completed two fellowships in Hematology/Oncology and Leukemia at UCLA and ... [more]
Abazeed, Mohamed
Associate Professor
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As a physician scientist trained in clinical oncology, genetics, cancer genomics, computational biology machine learning and biostatistics, I am interested in basic research to discover mechanisms tha... [more]
Abdel-Mohsen, Mohamed
Associate Professor
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Current immunotherapy efforts focus on targeting proteins and nucleic acids. These efforts are highly promising but insufficient to fully realize the potential of immunotherapy for most patients. To a... [more]
Abdulkadir, Sarki
Professor
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My research has focused on deciphering the molecular mechanisms that drive epithelial cancer initiation, progression and recurrence with an emphasis on prostate cancer. My lab has been active in estab... [more]
Achenbach, Chad
Associate Professor
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clinical and epidemiological research of HIV-associated cancers
Adekola, Kehinde
Associate Professor
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To improve the survival outcomes for hematologic malignancies and the opportunity to study Monoclonal Gammopathy of Undetermined Significance and Multiple Myeloma in individuals of African descent pre... [more]
Adli, Mazhar
Associate Professor
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I obtained my Ph.D. training in cancer biology and postdoc training in the large-scale human genome and epigenome mapping projects provides me a unique set of experimental and analytical skills to exe... [more]
Ahmed, Atique
Professor
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Develop novel approaches for anti-glioma therapeutics with an interest in identifying novel therapeutic targets by understanding the tumor specific niche factor for the glioma stem cell. The recent de... [more]
Ahrendsen, Jared
Assistant Professor
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I am interested in clinical and translational, tissue-based, pathology research focused on tumors of the central nervous system.
Alshurafa, Nabil
Associate Professor
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Nabil Alshurafa is an associate professor of Preventive Medicine and of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. He received his PhD in computer science at the University of Californi... [more]