Ageliki Tsagaratou, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab is interested in epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of conventional and unconventional T cell development, differentiation and function. Our research aims to decipher how aberrations in … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Systems Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Aging/Geriatrics, Cancer Biology, Clinical Trials, Hematology |
Cyrus Vaziri, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our broad long-term goal is to understand how mammalian cells maintain ordered control of DNA replication during normal passage through an unperturbed cell cycle, and in response to genotoxins (DNA-da … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Toxicology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Department of Medicine (DOM), Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Genomics, Immunology |
Bernard E. Weissman, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: How the loss of different components of the SWI/SNF complex contributes to neoplastic transformation remains an open and important question. My laboratory concentrates on addressing this question by t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Genetics, Molecular Biology |
N. Ari Wijetunga, MD, PhD, MS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I am interested in novel genomic and radiomic markers of radiosensitivity in hematologic and genitourinary malignancies. I am also interested in comoitational methods to integrate big data into clinic … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Radiation Oncology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Cell Signaling, Genomics, Hematology, Imaging, Molecular Medicine, Nanomedicine, Prostate Cancer, Systems Biology |
David C. Williams Jr, MD, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We study epigenetic complexes involved in gene silencing using structural biology and biophysical techniques. The over-arching goal is to develop inhibitors of these complexes as molecular prob … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biochemistry & Biophysics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Chemical Biology, Drug Discovery, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Structural Biology |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Oral Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Genomics, Translational Medicine |
Wendell Yarbrough, MD, MMHC, FACS |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Dr. Yarbrough is a surgeon-scientist active in head & neck cancer research for more than two decades. Between 2012 and 2016, he served as Chief of Otolaryngology, Director of the Head & … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Translational Medicine |
Melinda Yates, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research program is focused on cancers that form in the lining of the uterus (endometrium) with a particular emphasis on premalignant biology. My lab studies the earliest molecular changes t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer, Cancer Biology, Drug Delivery, Health Equity, Obesity, Other, Pathology, Pharmacology, Social Determinants of Health, Toxicology, Translational Medicine, Women's Health |
Jen Jen Yeh, MD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We are a translational research lab. The overall goal of our research is to find therapeutic targets and biomarkers for patients with pancreatic and colorectal cancer and to translate this to the clin … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Lineberger Cancer Center, Pharmacology, Surgery |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Genomics, Nanomedicine, Translational Medicine |
Elaine Yeh |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The site of microtubule attachment to the chromosome is the kinetochore, a complex of over 60 proteins assembled at a specific site on the chromosome, the centromere. Almost every kinetochore protein … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biophysics, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics |




