Lurie Cancer Center Members
Membership in the Lurie Cancer Center is based on the investigator's cancer research focus and scholarly activity. A program assignment recommendation is made by the Executive Committee with final approval issued by the cancer center's director. Full members are assigned to a program in the Basic Science Research Division, the Clinical Science Research Division or the Cancer Prevention & Control Research Division. All members are welcome and encouraged to participate in any educational activities initiated by the Lurie Cancer Center.
Lauberth, Shannon
Associate Professor
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Our research efforts are focused on the discovery of clinically distinct alterations in the cancer cell transcriptome and epigenome and how these changes impact patient response and resistance to canc... [more]
Lautz, Timothy
Associate Professor
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I am an academic pediatric surgeon with a clinical and research focus on the subspeciality of pediatric surgical oncology and an interest in clinical innovation. I am an active mem... [more]
Lavine, Jeremy
Assistant Professor
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My research interest is to understand the link between angiogenesis and inflammation in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD). Although nAMD is not an oncologic disease, the study of inf... [more]
Le Poole, Isabelle
Professor
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Research in the Le Poole lab is focused on immunotherapy the etiology and treatment of vitiligo, melanoma and lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) as well as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC). Specifically, ... [more]
Lenzen, Alicia
Assistant Professor
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I am an advanced fellowship trained, clinical and translational investigator in pediatric neuro-oncology. My research endeavors are centered in the pediatric neuro-oncology program at Ann & Rober... [more]
Leonard, Joshua
Professor
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My research group works at the interface of systems biology and synthetic biology in order to probe and program the function of complex, multicellular systems to develop transformative biotechnologies... [more]
Lesniak, Maciej (Matt) S
Professor
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My clinical and research interests focus on neurosurgical management of patients with brain and spinal cord tumors.
Lewandowski, Robert J.
Professor
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I have collaborated in many pre-clinical and clinical research projects and published regularly on preclinical studies including the rabbit and rat tumor models, embolization procedures, and ... [more]
Lewis, Marquita
Assistant Professor
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Dr. Thames is a health behavior and health promotion researcher with experience in using community-based approaches to examine individual- and community-level determinants of health that improve cance... [more]
Li, Liming
Associate Professor
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Prion proteins are capable of existing in multiple stable conformations, at least one of which is infectious. It is generally accepted that prion (PrPSc) is the responsible agent for the dev... [more]