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Faculty

Basic Science Faculty

M Soares

Michael J. Soares, PhD
Director, Division of Cancer and Developmental Biology
University Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair, Research
Trophoblast stem cells and pathways controlling their developmental fate; biology of hemochorial plancentation; and species-specific reproductive adaptations
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 F Behbod Fariba Behbod, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Role of cancer stem cells in malignant progression of human ductal carcinoma in situ
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N Cheng Nikki Cheng, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of inflammation during breast cancer progression
E-mail		 P Fields Patrick E. Fields, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mechanisms of Transcriptional Regulation during Peripheral T Cell Differentiation
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T Fields Timothy A. Fields, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Wnt signaling in cancer and differentiation/development
E-mail		 Andrew K. Godwin, PhD
Chancellors Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences and Endowed Professor
Professor and Director of Molecular Oncology
Molecular definition of tumors to define their treatment-sensitive elements
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R Jensen Roy A. Jensen, MD
Professor and Director, University of Kansas Cancer Center
Molecular and cellular biology of BRCA1
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Easwari Kumaraswamy, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
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Harsh Pathak, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Biomarkers for early detection and risk of breast and ovarian cancer
E-mail		 Arindam Paul, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Regulation of epithelial to mesenchymal transition
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S Paul Soumen Paul, PhD
Associate Professor
Stem cell biology, development and function of the vascular system
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Philippe Prochasson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Chromatin remodeling and gene expression in budding yeast
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M.A.K. Rumi, PhD
Research Assistant Professor
Trascriptional regulation of trophoblast differentiation
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Sharmila Shankar, PhD
Associate Professor
Signal transduction, especially in the context of cancer chemotherapy
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J Vivian

Jay L. Vivian, PhD
Assistant Professor
Mouse developmental genetics; gene regulation in pluripotent stem cells
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 Wenbo Xu, MD, PhD, FACMG
Assistant Professor (Clinical Scholar)
Assistant Director, Clinical Molecular Oncology Laboratory
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Secondary Appointments

R Kumar

Raj Kumar, PhD
Associate Professor
Developmental genetics of the hypothalamus-pituitary-gonadal axis
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 B Li

Benyi Li, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
P13K signal pathways in human cancers and related nanoparticle-based therapies
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Affiliated Faculty from Stowers Institute for Medical Research

M Blanchette

Marco Blanchette, PhD
Assistant Professor
Alternative splicing of pre-mRNAs and post-transcriptional gene regulatory network  analysis in the fruit fly Drosophilia melanogaster
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 L Li

Linheng Li, PhD
Professor
Investigation of the genetic and molecular mechanisms regarding adult stem cell development
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Washburn

Michael Washburn, PhD
Associate Professor
Proteomics
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 L Wiedemann

Leanne M. Wiedemann, PhD
Professor
Genes involved in tumor-associated chromosomal translocations: their normal function and defining their role in the oncogenic process
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J Zeitlinger

Julia Zeitlinger, PhD
Assistant Professor
Transcriptional regulatory networks in Drosophilia
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