Inherent and Infectious Disease

Suraiya Rasheed, PhD–
Biomarkers and protein-protein interaction pathways in cancer and viral (HIV) diseases.

Takeshi Saito, MD, PhD–
Pathophysiology of viral hepatitis and liver biology.

Molecular and Cellular Immunology

Lee Ann Baxter-Lowe, PhD, d(ABHI)–
Definition and clinical relevance of HLA polymorphism.

Alan Epstein, MD, PhD–
Development of CAR T-cells for the immunotherapy of solid tumors.

André J. Ouellette, PhD–
Defensins in innate and adaptive immune responses.

Neurological Diseases

David R Hinton, MD, FARVO–
Pathogenesis of age-related macular degeneration and development of novel stem cell and neuroprotective therapies.

Carol Miller, MD–
Cell and molecular biology of neurodegenerative diseases: Translational interfaces with bioengineering.

Tumor Biology

Shahab Azgharzadeh, MD–
Next-Generation Sequencing of Relapsed Neuroblastoma. This study will generate and analyze data from tumor cells obtained from bone marrows of children with relapsed neuroblastoma to identify recurring mutations.

Louis Dubeau, MD, PhD–
Biology, molecular genetics, and animal modeling of ovarian cancer.

Anat Erdreich-Epstein, MD, PhD–
Molecular mechanisms of PID1-based sensitization of brain tumors to chemotherapy in mice.

Joseph Landolph, PhD–
Molecular and cell biology of morphological and neoplastic cell transformation induced by carcinogenic nickel compounds and chromium (VI) compounds.