Cancer Biology Faculty
Primary Faculty
| Arthur M. Mercurio, PhD - Professor and Interim Chair
Mechanisms of carcinoma progression.
Mercurio Lab |
 | Eric Baehrecke, PhD - Professor
Cell death and autophagy.
Baehrecke Lab |
 | Andreas Bergmann, PhD - Professor
Genetic control of programmed cell death (apoptosis) in Drosophilia.
Bergmann Lab |
 | Sharon Cantor, PhD - Associate Professor, Director of the Cancer Biology Graduate Program
DNA repair and cancer.
Cantor Lab |
| Chung-Cheng Hsieh, ScD - Professor
Cancer epidemiology.
Hsieh Lab |
 | Michelle A. Kelliher, PhD - Professor, Co-Director of the UMass Leukemia Program
Apoptosis and cancer.
Kelliher Lab |
 | Stephen Lyle, MD, PhD - Associate Professor, Director of the UMass Cancer Center Tissue Bank
Stem cells and cancer.
Lyle Lab, Stem Cell/Tissue Bank Lab |
 | Junhao Mao, PhD - Assistant Professor
Signaling pathways in cancer.
Mao Lab |
 | Leslie M. Shaw, PhD - Associate Professor, Co-Director of the UMass Breast Cancer Program
Mechanisms of tumor metastasis.
Shaw Lab |
 | Karl Simin, PhD - Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology of Breast Cancer and Mouse Models.
Simin Lab |
 | Merav Socolovsky, PhD, MBBS - Associate Professor
Molecular mechanisms regulating the homeostasis of hematopoietic progenitros |
Adjunct Professor
Irwin Leav, DVM - Professor
Affiliated Faculty
Ingolf Bach, PhD - Associate Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
Neuronal Cell Fate Specification.
Lucio Castilla, PhD - Associate Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
Genetics of Leukemia, Mouse Models.
Craig Ceol, PhD - Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
Genetic regulators of Melanoma formation using the zebrafish.
David Geurtin, PhD - Assistant Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
Signal Transduction in Development and Cancer.
JeanMarie Houghton, PhD, MD - Associate Professor, Gastroenterology
Host immune response to Helicobacter pylori infection, immune modulation of gastric cell signaling and growth regulation in response to Helicobacter infection.
Stephen Jones, PhD - Professor, Cell Biology
Signaling Pathways in Development and Tumor Suppression.
Brian Lewis, PhD - Associate Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine
Molecular Genetics of Pancreatic and Liver Cancers.
Peter Newburger, MD - Professor, Pediatrics, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology. Vice-Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Director, Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Molecular basis of phagocyte function and selenoprotein biosynthesis.
Alonzo Ross, PhD - Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
PTEN phosphatase and tumor suppressor, CNS stem cells and neural tumors.
Janet Stavnezer, PhD - Professor, Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Mechanism and Regulation of Antibody Class Switch Recombination.
Research Faculty
Hira Goel, PhD - Research Assistant Professor
Hoi Pang Low, PhD - Research Assistant Professor
Paul Mak, PhD - Research Assistant Professor