The Postdoctoral Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer at the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University enables four postdoctoral fellows per year to receive state-of-the-art training in signal transduction pathways and the role of aberrant signaling pathways in human cancer. Trainees receive two years of funding to conduct research to investigate the mechanism by which hormones, growth factors and receptors control cell fate, transformation, metastasis and cell growth. The preceptors of this Training Program are well established investigators with NIH funded research programs on both the Evanston and Chicago Campuses of Northwestern University. In addition to laboratory research, the Training Program includes several formal education sessions:
- Tumor Cell Biology Seminar Series
- Oncology Research Journal Club
- Annual presentations
- Chicago Signal Transduction Symposium
Program Director: Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine, Deputy Director - Lurie Cancer Center
Administrative Director: Robin Leikin, PhD., Research Assistant Professor,
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Training Program in Signal Transduction and Cancer is funded by the National Cancer Institute as an Institutional National Research Award (NRSA T32). In addition to the NRSA stipend, trainees receive an allocation for supplies, travel and health insurance.
Serdar Bulun, MD
Professor
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Estrogen receptor action in breast cancer tissue
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Navdeep Chandel, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Mitochondria signaling and cancer
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Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Prolactin receptor and breast cancer
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Vincent Cryns, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
Caspase signaling in apoptosis
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Kathleen Green, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Cell adhesion molecules
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Richard Longnecker, PhD
Professor
Department of Microbiology - Immunology
Signal transduction of viral infection
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Richard Morimoto, PhD
Professor
Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology
Heat shock proteins
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Jill C. Pelling, PhD
Professor
Department of Pathology
Signal transduction pathways in UV response
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Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD
Professor
Department of Medicine
Signal transduction molecules
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Steven Rosen, MD, PhD
Professor and Director
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Signal transduction in cancer therapies
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Teresa Woodruff, PhD
Professor
Department of Neurology
Gene regulation and tumor metastasis
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Ming Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
Dept of Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry
Molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis
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