Cancer Research Institute Faculty

Meet the Research Team

Cancer Research Institute faculty members have a long history of challenging conventional thinking. Over the years, members have advanced radical ideas that today help form the foundation of cancer biology. And yet, our work has just begun.

Muneeb Ahmed, MD

Ramy Arnaout, MD, PhD

John M. Asara, PhD Asara Lab

David Avigan, MD Co-Director, Immunotherapy Institute

Steven P. Balk, MD, PhD Balk Lab

Rupal Bhatt, MD, PhD

Vicki A. Boussiotis, MD, PhD

Glenn Bubley, MD

Stuart K. Calderwood, PhD

Alain Charest, PhD

Kimberly Christ, PhD

Steven E. Come, MD

Daniel B. Costa, MD, PhD

Richard D. Cummings, PhD Division Chief, Surgical Sciences

Vandana Dialani, MD

Christian Dibble, PhD

Annalisa DiRuscio, MD, PhD

Robert Flaumenhaft, MD

Marc Garnick, MD

Ritu R. Gill, MD

Yu Jing Heng, PhD

Lauren Hertan, MD

Winston Hide, PhD

Ted James, MD

Robin Joyce, MD

Antoine E. Karnoub, PhD Post-Doctoral Scholars Program Director Karnoub Lab

Susumu Kobayashi, MD, PhD Kobayashi Lab

Gerald M. Kolodny, MD

Jack W. Lawler, PhD

Tae Ho Lee, PhD

Towia A. Liberman, PhD

David F. McDermott, MD Co-Director, Immunotherapy Institute

Taru Muranen, PhD

Reza Nezafat, PhD Nezafat Lab

Carmelo Nucera, MD, PhD

Dipak Panigrahy, MD

Mary Linton Peters, MD, PhD

Deepa Rangachari, MD

Jacalyn M. Rosenblatt, MD Deputy Director, Immunotherapy Institute

Jeffrey Saffitz, MD, PhD

Lowell Schnipper, MD

Mara A. Schonberg, MD, MPH Schonberg Lab

Ralph Scully, PhD, MBBS

Frank Slack, PhD Co-Director, HMS Initiative for RNA Medicine

Mary Ann Stevenson, MD, PhD

Daniel G. Tenen, MD Tenen Lab

Cornelis Terhorst, PhD

Alex Toker, PhD Toker Lab

Leo Tsai, MD, PhD

Hemant Varma, MD, PhD

Ioannis Vlachos, PhD

Barbara Wegiel, PhD

Wenyi Wei, PhD Wei Lab

Gerburg Wulf, MD, PhD Wulf Lab

Xin Yuan, MD, DSc

Jeffrey Zwicker, MD

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