Training Program in Clinical Oncology Research

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Training Program in Clinical Oncology Research

Program Overview:

The Clinical Oncology Research Training Program of the Lurie Cancer Center offers two years
of mentored laboratory research training to complement the training of fellows enrolled in the Feinberg School of Medicine's
fellowship programs in adult or pediatric hematology/oncology. Both a basic science faculty member and a clinician supervise
fellows selected into this NCI-funded program. The curriculum includes:

Laboratory research
Clinical multidisciplinary conferences
Coursework in cancer biology & writing
Biweekly journal club in cancer research
Career development sessions
Annual research presentation
Tumor Cell Biology Seminar Series
Outpatient clinic one day per week
Presentation at national meeting

Program Directors:

Program Director: Steven T. Rosen, MD, Professor and Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Program Co-Director: Jonathan Licht, MD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Program Co-Director: Seth Corey, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Administrative Director: Robin Leikin, PhD, Scientific Program Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

Participating Faculty Mentors:

Raymond Bergan, MD Associate Professor Prostate cancer cell metastasis	Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD Professor Department of Pathology Prolactin receptor and breast cancer	Seth Corey, MD Professor Department of Pediatrics Molecular mechanisms of hematopoiesis
John Crispino, PhD Associate Professor Department of Medicine Normal and malignant blood cell development	Vincent Cryns, MD Associate Professor Department of Medicine Caspase signaling in apoptosis	Elizabeth Eklund, MD Professor Department of Medicine Molecular mechanisms of hematopoiesis
Kathleen Green, PhD Professor Dept of Pathology Cell adhesion molecules	Mary Hendrix, PhD Professor and Director Children's Memorial Research Center Role of microenvironment in cancer	Khashayarsha Khazaie, PhD, DSc Associate Professor Department of Medicine Tumor-immune cell interactions and colon cancer
Hiroaki Kiyokawa, MD, PhD Professor Department of Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry Cell cycle and carcinogenesis	Chung Lee, PhD Professor Department of Urology Immune responses and prostate cancer	Jonathan Licht, MD Professor Department of Medicine Transcription factors & heme malignancies
Richard Longnecker, PhD Professor Department of Microbiology-Immunology Biology of Epstein-Barr virus and cancer	Hidayatullah Munshi, MD Assistant Professor Department of Medicine Tumor cell invasion and metastasis	Elizabeth Perlman, MD Professor Department of Pathology Molecular classification of pediatric tumors
Jill C. Pelling, PhD Professor Department of Pathology Signal transduction pathways in UV response	Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhDM Professor Department of Medicine Signal transduction molecules	Steven Rosen, MD Professor and Director Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center Signal transduction in cancer therapies
Paul Schumacker, PhD Professor Department of Pediatrics Response to hypoxia in cancer cells	Teresa Woodruff, PhD Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology Inhibin and ovarian cancer	Ming Zhang, PhD Associate Professor Dept of Molecular Pharm & Biological Chem Molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis
Debabrata (Debu) Chakravarti, PhD Associate Professor Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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