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

Recent Publications

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

• Liu H, Feng X, Ennis KN, Behrmann CA, Sarma P, Jiang TT, Kofuji S, Niu L, Stratton Y, Thomas HE, Yoon SO, Sasaki AT, Plas DR. (2017) Cell Rep. Pharmacologic Targeting of S6K1 in PTEN-Deficient Neoplasia. Feb 28;18(9):2088-2095. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2017.02.022.
• Zhang Y, Leonard M, Shu Y, Yang Y, Shu D, Guo P, Zhang X. (2016) ACS Nano. Overcoming Tamoxifen Resistance of Human Breast Cancer by Targeted Gene Silencing Using Multifunctional pRNA Nanoparticles. Dec 16. doi: 10.1021/acsnano.6b05910. [Epub ahead of print]
• Fang J, Bolanos LC, Choi K, Liu X, Christie S, Akunuru S, Kumar R, Wang D, Chen X, Greis KD, Stoilov P, Filippi MD, Maciejewski JP, Garcia-Manero G, Weirauch MT, Salamonis N, Geiger H, Zheng Y, Starczynowski DT. (2016)  Nat Immunol. Ubiquitination of hnRNPA1 by TRAF6 Links Chronic Innate Immune Signaling With Myelodysplasia. Dec 26. doi: 10.1038/ni.3654. [Epub ahead of print] 
• Li Z, Weng H, Su R, Weng X, Zuo Z, Li C, Huang H, Nachtergaele S, Dong L, Hu C, Qin X, Tang L, Wang Y, Hong GM, Huang H, Wang X, Chen P, Gurbuxani S, Arnovitz S, Li Y, Li S, Strong J, Neilly MB, Larson RA, Jiang X, Zhang P, Jin J, He C, Chen J. FTO Plays an Oncogenic Role in Acute Myeloid Leukemia as a N⁶-Methyladenosine RNA Demethylase. Cancer Cell. 2017. Jan 9;31(1):127-141. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2016.11.017. Epub 2016 Dec 22.

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Latest News/Events

Congratulations to Dr. Sohaib Khan on his retirement and Emeritus status.  See photos from the retirement party held Friday, April 28, 2017 at the Kingsgate Marriott.