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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.

Chandel, Navdeep

Bio

My research focuses on mitochondria beyond ATP generation function as signaling organelles to control biological responses. My laboratory has provided evidence Thus, mitochondria serve as signaling or... [more]

Chandra, Sunandana

Chandra, Sunandana

Associate Professor

Bio

Studying novel biomarkers that may be used as prognostic and predictive tools in the management of melanoma and other advanced skin cancers, as well as cancer of unknown primary.

Chang, Catalina Lee

Chang, Catalina Lee

Assistant Professor

Bio

My research is focused in elucidating fundamental aspects of primary brain tumors immunology. As neuroimmunologist by training, I am passionated to understand the inter-relationship within the immune ... [more]

Chaudhury, Sonali

Bio

I am a pediatric stem sell transplanter with special interest in transplantation strategies to reduce toxicities, stem cell transplants for non-malignant disorders utilizing reduced intensity transpl... [more]

Chawla, Akhil

Chawla, Akhil

Assistant Professor, Clinical

Bio

Dr. Chawla is a Hepatopancreatobiliary and Gastrointestinal Surgical Oncologist at Northwestern Medicine, Clinical Assistant Professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and membe... [more]

Chen, Peiwen

Chen, Peiwen

Assistant Professor

Bio

My research is to study the molecular and biological processes governing the development and metastasis of CNS tumors, including glioblastoma and metastatic brain tumors. Current interests are focused... [more]

Chen, Yi-Hua

Chen, Yi-Hua

Professor

Bio

Hematopathology Diagnostic and prognostic markers for lymphoma and leukemia.

Cheng, Shi-Yuan

Bio

The primary goal of our research is to improve our understanding of molecular mechanisms of cancer tumorigenesis, invasion, metastases and angiogenesis, and to translate our novel discoveries to clini... [more]

Chisholm, Rex

Bio

My research focuses on the application of informatics to the annotation and display of genomic information, and on the interface of genomics and informatics as it applies to the development of genomic... [more]

Choi, Jaehyuk

Choi, Jaehyuk

Associate Professor

Bio

We study incurable skin cancers with a primary focus on cutaneous T cell lymphoma. We are using human and animal models with two goals. We seek to determine 1) the molecular basis of the aberrant... [more]