About Cancer Biology

The Cancer Biology Department is the home of a dynamic, collaborative and highly interactive faculty with cutting-edge research programs that span a wide range of cancer-related topics.

Every new discovery and success in our laboratories—big and small—is putting our dreams of eradicating (or controlling) cancer closer than ever to reality. We hope you will join us in our fight against cancer through basic and translational research at this most opportune and exciting time.

We invite you to learn more about:

• Our History
• Chair's Corner
• Faculty
• Graduate Program
• Seminars & Symposia
• Jensen Symposium

Recent Publications

The following publications have been recently published by Cancer Biology faculty:

• Sumita K, Lo YH, Takeuchi K, Senda M, Kofuji S, Ikeda Y, Terakawa J, Sasaki M, Yoshino H, Majd N, Zheng Y, Kahoud ER, Yokota T, Emerling BM, Asara JM, Ishida T, Locasale JW, Daikoku T, Anastasiou D, Senda T, Sasaki, AT. (2016).  The Lipid Kinase PI5P4Kβ Is an Intracellular GTP Sensor for Metabolism and Tumorigenesis. Mol Cell. 2016 Jan 21;61(2):187-98. doi: 10.1016/ j.molcel.2015.12.011. Epub 2016 Jan 7
• Fang J, Liu X, Bolanos L, Barker B, Rigolino C, Cortelezzi A, Oliva EN, Cuzzola M, Grimes HL, Fontanillo C, Komurov K, MacBeth K,Starczynowski DT. (2016)  Nat Med. A calcium- and calpain-dependent pathway determines the response to lenalidomide in myelodysplastic syndromes. Jun 13. doi: 10.1038/nm.4127. [Epub ahead of print] 
• Chen, S., Wang, C., Yeo, S., Liang, C., Okamoto, T., Sun, S., Wen, J., Guan, J. (2016). Distinct roles of autophagy-dependent and -independent functions of FIP200 revealed by generation and analysis of a mutant knock-in mouse model. Genes & Development, 30 (7), 856-69. doi:10.1101/gad.276428.115 
• Jiang X, Hu C, Arnovitz S, Bugno J, Yu M, Zuo Z, Chen P, Huang H, Ulrich B, Gurbuxani S, Weng H, Strong J, Wang Y, Li Y, Salat J, Li S, Elkahloun AG, Yang Y, Neilly MB, Larson RA, Le Beau MM, Herold T, Bohlander SK, Liu PP, Zhang J, Li Z, He C, Jin J, Hong S, Chen J. (2016) miR-22 has a potent anti-tumour role with therapeutic potential in acute myeloid leukaemia. Nat Commun. 2016 Apr 26;7:11452. doi: 10.1038/ncomms11452.

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