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.
Dravid, Vinayak
Professor
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Development of innovative imaging tools/techniques from atoms to animals; and diagnostic/sensing platform that integrates physical science and engineering with biology and biomedicine.
Duncan, Francesca
Associate Professor
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My lab is currently extending research to determine how fibrosis and inflammation in the aging ovarian microenvironment contributes to the pathogenesis of ovarian cancer. We are investigating the nove... [more]
Efimov, Igor
Professor
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Cardio-oncology, cardiotoxicity of cancer therapeutics, cell signaling involved in cancer and heart failure pathogenesis, implantable devices and imaging
Eichner, Lillian
Assistant Professor
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The focus of the Eichner lab is to elucidate transcriptional dependencies at the intersection of epigenetics, signaling, and metabolism to reveal and harness targetable vulnerabilities in cancer. Our... [more]
Eisenbarth, Stephanie
Professor
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Red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is a powerful therapeutic tool and the most common form of transplantation in clinical practice, yet the immune system of the transfusion recipient can respo... [more]
Eklund, Elizabeth A.
Professor
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The focus of my laboratory is to understand the key events in normal myelopoiesis and how leukemia-associated mutations derange these processes during leukemogenesis.
Espinosa, Horacio
Professor
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We develop micro and nanosystems for cell manipulation and analysis, gene editing, disease modeling, drug screening, mechanobiology.
Etemadi, Mozziyar
Assistant Professor
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by 1) creating state-of-the art middleware software that plugs into and extracts data from clinical systems and 2) building novel, wearable sensors, we are able to 3) create a robust, multi-modal phys... [more]
Fang, Deyu
Professor
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The current application is to delineate the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying USP22 (ubiquitinspecific peptidase 22) in Regulatory T (Treg) cell hemostasis and functions. Our preliminary da... [more]
Folsch, Heike
Research Associate Professor
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Understanding how epithelial cells establish and maintain apical-basolateral polarity through continuously sorting transmembrane proteins to their correct target domains. Our focus is on sorting event... [more]