Multidisciplinary programs include laboratory scientists, clinical investigators, providers of patient care, epidemiologists, and sociobehavioral scientists. Collaboration across disciplines ensures that insights gained in the lab can move quickly and effectively to cancer patients' bedsides and to cancer prevention and control programs. The following multidisciplinary research programs are supported by the National Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant.
Breast Oncology
Program Leaders: Laura J. Esserman, MD, MBA; Laura J. van ‘t Veer, PhD; Andrei Goga, MD, PhD
Education and Training Liaison: Nicolas Prionas, MD, PhD
Community Engagement Liaison: Kimberly Badal, PhD
Cancer Control
Program Leaders: Scarlett Lin-Gomez, MPH, PhD; Pamela Ling, MD; Tung T. Nguyen, MD
Education and Training Liaison: Gideon St. Helen, PhD
Community Engagement Liaison: Sorbarikor Piawah, MD
Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy
Program Leaders: Thomas G. Martin, MD
Education and Training Liaison: Hilde Schjerven, PhD
Community Engagement Liaison: Katy Tsai, MD
Molecular Oncology
Program Leaders: Charles S. Craik, PhD; Pamela Munster, MD
Education and Training Liaison: Michael Cheng, MD
Community Engagement Liaison: TBA
Neurologic Oncology
Program Leaders: Nicholas Butowski, MD; Susan M. Chang, MD; Manish Aghi, MD, PhD
Education and Training Liaison: Nancy Ann Oberheim Bush, MD, PhD
Community Engagement Liaison: Jennie Taylor, MD
Pediatric Malignancies
Program Leaders: Sabine Mueller, MD, PhD; Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD; William A. Weiss, MD, PhD
Education and Training Liaison: Christine Higham, MD
Community Engagement Liaison: Lena Winestone, MD
Prostate Cancer
Program Leaders: Matthew Cooperberg, MD, MPH; Felix Feng, MD; Eric J. Small, MD
Education and Training Liaison: Sima Porten, MD, MPH
Community Engagement Liaison: Samuel Washington III, MD, MAS
Breast Oncology
Cancer Control
Cancer Immunology & Immunotherapy
Molecular Oncology
Neurologic Oncology
Pediatric Malignancies
Prostate Cancer
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