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
Phone: (608) 263-5359
Lisa M. Arendt
Credentials: DVM, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor Comparative Biosciences
Email:
lmarendt
Phone: (608) 890-2265
Lisa Barroilhet
Credentials: MD, MS
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
barroilhet
Phone: (608) 265-2319
Alexander Birbrair
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
Birbrair
Phone: 6086980034
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 Institute
Email:
ehbresni
Phone: (608) 265-6446
Mark Burkard
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
mburkard
Phone: (608) 262-2803
Wade Bushman
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
bushman
Phone: (608) 262-5440
Christian Capitini
Credentials: MD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
ccapitini
Phone: (608) 262-2415
Evie Carchman
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
carchman
Phone: (804) 512-0612
Jane Churpek
Credentials: MD, MS
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
jchurpek
Phone: 608-890-4536
Mahua Day
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor, Director of Surgical Neuro-oncology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Email:
dey
Dustin Deming
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
ddeming
Phone: (608) 265-1042
Loren Denlinger
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
ldenling
Phone: (608) 261-1552
Mahua Dey
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor Department of Neurological Surgery, Director of Surgical Neuro-oncology, University of Wisconsin Madison
Email:
dey
Andreas Friedl
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor
Email:
afriedl
Phone: (608) 265-9283
Ting Fu
Credentials: PHD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
Ting.fu
Phone: 608-890-3508
Jacques Galipeau
Credentials: MD
Position title: Associate Dean for Therapeutics Development, SMPH
Email:
jgalipeau
Phone: 6082630078
Xin Gao
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
xgao37
Phone: 608-263-0845
Jenny Gumperz
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
jegumperz
Phone: (608) 263-6902
Richard Halberg
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
rbhalberg
Phone: (608) 263-8433
Gaelen Hess
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
ghess3
Phone: (608) 890-3018
Gopal Iyer
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
Giyer
Phone: 6082630662
Jiaoyang Jiang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
jiaoyang.jiang
Phone: 608-265-6732
Eric Johannsen
Credentials: MD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
ejohannsen
Phone: (608) 262-9952
Junsu Kang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
Junsu.kang
Phone: 608-556-6277
Shannon Kenney
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor
Email:
Kenney
Phone: (608) 265-0533
David Kosoff
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
dkosoff1
Phone: (608) 263-4690
Jeremy Kratz
Credentials: MD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
jdkratz
Phone: (734) 904-0291
Pam Kreeger
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Email:
kreeger
Phone: 608-890-2915
Dudley Lamming
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
dlamming
Phone: (608) 256-1901 x12861
Jessica Lang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
jessica.lang
Phone: (608) 262-8601
Joshua Lang
Credentials: MD, MS
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
jmlang
Phone: 608.262.0705
Aaron LeBeau
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
aaron.lebeau
Phone: 608-262-5586
Peter Lewis
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
peter.lewis
Phone: 606-263-6599
Daniel Loeb
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
loeb
Phone: (608) 262-1260
Daniel Matson
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
drmatson
Phone: (608) 265-4377
Douglas McNeel
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
dm3
Phone: 608-263-4198
Zachary Morris
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
zmorris
Phone: 608-263-2603
Deane Mosher
Credentials: MD
Position title: Professor
Email:
dfm1
Phone: (608) 262-1576
Muhammed Murtaza
Credentials: MBBS, PhD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
murtaza
Donna Peters
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
dmpeter2
Phone: (608) 262-4626
Becky Richards
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
rmrichards3
Phone: 608-265-9645
Lixin Rui
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
lrui
Phone: (608) 265-8525
John Sheehan
Credentials: MD
Position title: Associate Professor
Email:
jps
Phone: (608) 262-1964
Melissa Skala
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research; Professor, Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics
Email:
mcskala
Phone: 608-316-4108
Quaovi Sodji
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
qsodji
Phone: 608-262-3301
Paul Sondel
Credentials: MD, PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
pmsondel
Phone: (608) 263-9069
Bill Sugden
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
sugden
Phone: (608) 262-1116
Shirley Ting Fu
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
Ting.fu
Phone: 608-890-3508
María Virumbrales-Muñoz
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
virumbralesm
Phone: (608) 890-3649
Deric Wheeler
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
dlwheeler
Phone: (608) 262-7837
Wei Xu
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor
Email:
wxu
Phone: (608) 265-5540
Jing Zhang
Credentials: PhD
Position title: Professor (Oncology)
Email:
zhang
Phone: (608) 263-1147, (608) 263-1150
Shuang (George) Zhao
Credentials: MD, MSE
Position title: Assistant Professor
Email:
shgzhao