Introduction | Program Directors | Program Faculty
Signal Transduction Training Grant
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:
- Oncology Research Journal Club
- Tumor Cell Biology Seminar Series
- Annual presentations
- Chicago Signal Transduction Symposium
Program Directors
Program Director: Jill C. Pelling, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Pathology
Administrative Director: Robin Leikin, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
Program Faculty
| Navdeep Chandel, PhD, Associate Professor - Department of Medicine - Mitochondria signaling and cancer |
Ming Zhang, PhD, Associate Professor - Dept of Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry - Molecular mechanisms of cancer metastasis |
Serdar Bulun, MD, Professor - Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology - Estrogen receptor action in breast cancer tissue |
| Charles Clevenger, MD, PhD, Professor - Prolactin receptor and breast cancer |
Vincent Cryns, MD, Associate Professor - Dept. of Medicine - Caspase signaling in apoptosis |
Margarita Dubocovich, PhD, Professor - Dept of Molecular Pharmacology & Biological Chemistry - Melatonin receptor signal transduction |
| Kathleen Green, PhD, Professor - Dept. of Pathology - Cell adhesion molecules |
Linda Hicke, PhD, Assistant Professor - Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology - Ubiquitin regulation of protein activity |
J. Larry Jameson, MD, PhD, Professor and Chair - Dept. of Medicine -
Mutations in endocrine tumors |
| Chung Lee, PhD, Professor - Dept. of Urology - Prostate biology |
Jonathan Licht, MD, Professor - Dept. of Medicine - Hematologic malignancies |
Richard Morimoto, PhD, Professor - Dept of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology & Cell Biology - Heat shock proteins |
| Jill C. Pelling, PhD, Professor - Dept. of Pathology - Signal transduction pathways in UV response |
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, Professor - Dept. of Medicine - Signal transduction molecules |
Steven Rosen, MD, Professor and Director - Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center - Signal transduction in cancer therapies |
| Teresa Woodruff, PhD, Professor - Dept. of Neurobiology and Physiology - Inhibin and ovarian cancer |
Jane Wu, MD, PhD, Professor - Dept. of Neurology - Gene regulation and tumor metastasis |
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