Cancer Biology: Focuses on cellular and molecular pathogenesis of cancer.
The graduate faculty and a brief statement of their research interests are listed below. Many of these individual research programs are funded by awards from a variety of funding resources. Inquiries regarding space in a laboratory and availability of research support should be directed to the individual faculty member.
The trainers are categorized by their research specialties into four research focus groups. Click on the focus group to view investigators in that specialty.
Cancer Biology
Nihal Ahmad
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Dermatology
Email: nahmad@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-5359
Caroline Alexander
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor Oncology
Email: alexander@oncology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-5182
Lisa M. Arendt
Credentials: DVM, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor Comparative Biosciences
Email: lmarendt@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 890-2265
Fotios Asimakopoulos
Credentials: MB, BChir, PhD
Position title: Professor Medicine
Email: fasimako@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-4835
Emery Bresnick
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Gary Felsenfeld Professor of Cell and Regenerative Biology; Lowell and Gwendolyn Smythe Endowed Professor, Director, UW-Madison Blood Cancer Research Program
Email: ehbresni@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-6446
Mark Burkard
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: mburkard@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-2803
Wade Bushman
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: bushman@urology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-5440
Christian Capitini
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: ccapitini@pediatrics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-2415
Evie Carchman
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: carchman@surgery.wisc.edu
Phone: (804) 512-0612
Dustin Deming
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: ddeming@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-1042
Loren Denlinger
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: ldenling@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 261-1552
Andreas Friedl
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor, Department Chair
Email: afriedl@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-9283
Daniel Greenspan
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: dsgreens@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-4676
Jenny Gumperz
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: jegumperz@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-6902
Richard Halberg
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: rbhalberg@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-8433
Gopal Iyer
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: Giyer@wisc.edu
Phone: 6082630662
Junsu Kang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: Junsu.kang@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-556-6277
Shannon Kenney
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor
Email: Kenney@oncology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-0533
Dudley Lamming
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: dlamming@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 256-1901 x12861
Joshua Lang
Credentials: MD, MS
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: jmlang@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: 608.262.0705
Peter Lewis
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: plewis@discovery.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 316-4388
Ricardo Lloyd
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: rvlloyd@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-4377
Daniel Loeb
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: loeb@oncology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-1260
Douglas McNeel
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: dm3@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-4198
Zachary Morris
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: zmorris@humonc.wisc.edu
Phone: 608-263-2603
Deane Mosher
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor
Email: dfm1@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-1576
Mario Otto
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: motto@pediatrics.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-9645
Donna Peters
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: dmpeter2@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-4626
Alan Rapraeger
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: acraprae@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-7577
Lixin Rui
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: lrui@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-8525
John Sheehan
Credentials: MD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: jps@medicine.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-1964
Paul Sondel
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: pmsondel@humonc.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-9069
Bill Sugden
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: sugden@oncology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-1116
Deric Wheeler
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email: dlwheeler@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 262-7837
Wei Xu
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email: wxu@oncology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-5540
Jing Zhang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor (Oncology)
Email: zhang@oncology.wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 263-1147, (608) 263-1150
Weixiong Zhong
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email: wzhong3@wisc.edu
Phone: (608) 265-6069