![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Carmen Bergom, MD, PhD
Identification of new targets to improve tumor radiation effectiveness and to protect normal tissues such as the heart from radiation injury
- Email: acbergom@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Kelly L. Bolton, PhD, MD
The interplay between inherited genetic variation, environmental factors, and acquired mutations in shaping the earliest stages of carcinogenesis
- Email: bolton@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Jian Campian, MD, PhD
Immunotherapy, brain tumor, spinal cord tumor, high grade gliomas
- Email: jcampian@dom.wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Feng Chen, PhD
genetic determinants and pathogenic mechanisms of urogenital diseases with the goal of improving diagnostic and therapeutic strategies targeting these diseases
- Email: fchen@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Jaebok Choi, PhD
Understanding T cells and immunoregulatory networks in GvHD and GvL for the treatment of hematopoietic malignancies
- Email: jchoi25@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Francesca Ferraro, MD, PhD
We use both mouse models and patient samples of acute myloid leukemia to understand leukemogenesis and to identify novel therapeutic targets.
- Email: ferrarof@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Matthew Goodwin, MD, PhD
Metabolism of cancer, targeting tumor metabolism by blocking metabolic pathways
- Email: matthewlgoodwin@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Abby Green, MD
identify factors within DNA damage response signaling pathways that represent therapeutic vulnerabilities in order to develop new treatment options for children with cancer
- Email: abby.green@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Joseph Ippolito, MD, PhD
cancer, metabolism, imaging, sex differences, glioblastoma
- Email: ippolitoj@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Yoon-A Kang, PhD
Hematopoietic stem cells, Multipotent progenitor, Cell fate decision, Lineage specification
- Email: yoonakang@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
John Krais, PhD
DNA damage response and how to apply new discoveries to the treatment of cancer
- Email: krais@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Stephanie Markovina, MD, PhD
prognosis and response to radiation therapy, therapeutic targets for cervical and anal cancers
- Email: smarkovina@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Melissa Mavers, MD, PhD
immune regulation of graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a debilitating and potentially fatal complication of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)
- Email: mmmavers@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Michael Meers, PhD
Epigenetics, Chromatin, Genomics, Gene Regulation, Cell fate, Transcription Factors
- Email: meers@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Hua Pan, PhD
identifying determinant protein domains governing voltage sensing and gate opening mechanisms of the cardiac IKs channel, which is a pathological determinant of the high mortality “Long QT Syndrome”
- Email: hpan@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Gary Patti, PhD
To understand the metabolic crosstalk between cells and tissues in disease models such as cancer by using isotopes and metabolomics
- Email: gjpattij@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Guangyong Peng, PhD
Role of Senescent T cells in tumor and neurodegeneration; tumor-associated regulatory T cells (Tregs) in suppression of anti-tumor immunity, Toll-like receptor (TLR) ligands and other immunomodulators; metabolic and epigenetic reprogramming of T cells for immunotherapy
- Email: pengg@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Patrícia Ribeiro Pereira, PhD
Molecular imaging tools to understand tumor biology and response to therapies
- Email: ribeiropereirap@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Joshua B. Rubin, MD, PhD
tumor biology, signal transduction, stem cells, neural development, sexual dimorphism, circadaian rhythm, chemokines, cAMP
- Email: Rubin_J@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Julie Schwarz, MD, PhD
Gynecologic cancers, thyroid cancer, molecular imaging
- Email: jschwarz@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Girdhar Sharma, PhD
Epigenetics, stem cell radiation response, chromatin and DNA damage response, apoptosis, DNA repair, post-translational histone modifications, oncogenesis.
- Email: sharma@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Monica Shokeen, PhD
Antigen-4 (VLA-4) targeted PET radiopharmaceuticals, multiple myeloma, hematopoietic progenitor cells (HPCs), PET, MRI and Optical imaging techniques
- Email: mshokeen@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Jessica Silva-Fisher, PhD
Long non-coding RNAs and RNA modifications in cancer metastasis and relapse
- Email: silvajm@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Priyanka Verma, Ph.D.
The Verma lab studies the causes and consequences of DNA damage in cancers
- Email: vermap@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Zhongsheng You, PhD
Cancer, DNA damage response, RNA surveillance, cell cycle, chromatin, laser micro-irradiation, Xenopus egg extracts, imaging, genetically-encoded reporters
- Email: zyou@wustl.edu
![Default image](https://sites.wustl.edu/bio200500independentresearch/wp-content/plugins/washu-people-places-items//assets/images/default-people.jpg)
Mohamed Zayed, MD, PhD
mechanisms that influence arterial collateral formation and peripheral arterial atheroprogression in the setting of diabetes
- Email: zayedm@wustl.edu