Members

Anne E. Cress, PhD
Principal Investigator
Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor, Radiation Oncology
Vice Dean, Operations and Strategy for the UA College of Medicine

Jaime M.C. Gard, BS
Lab Manager
Research Specialist, Principal

William L. Harryman, MS
Scientific Editorial Associate

PhD student, (co-mentored with Dr. Gregory Rogers)

PhD candidate

Rafael Sainz, MS
PhD student

Undergraduate Honors Student, Majors: Molecular and Cellular Biology, Physiology

John Ryniawec, PhD
Post-doc
PREVIOUS MEMBERS
Lipsa Das, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Pathology, UA College of Medicine
Lori Hazlehurst, PhD
Professor, School of Pharmacy, Associate Center Director, Basic Science, WVU Cancer Institute
James P. Hinton, PhD
Research and Development Scientist, Gwynn Oak, Maryland, United States
Nadia Manzi (Ingabire), PhD
2024 PhD at the University of Texas
Elijah J. Keeswood, BS
Research Specialist, Pond Lab, UACC
Kendra D. Marr, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine Resident, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Julie McGrath, PhD
Scientific Review Committee Member, Phoenix Children’s Hospital
Allan Paxson, BS
University of Arizona, Health Sciences – BSHS, Physiology and Medical Sciences (2024); Pursuing an MD/PhD at Oregon Health Sciences University
Cynthia Sandoval, PhD
Senior Director, Clinical Biomarker Development at Loxo Oncology at Lilly
Skyler J Simpson, MD
Cytopathology; Board Certified in Anatomic & Clinical Pathology; Incyte Diagnostics
Mengdie Wang, PhD
Co-Founder/CEO, RedPoint Oncology, Inc; Mercurio Lab, UMass Chan Medical School
CURRENT COLLABORATORS
Hina Arif-Tiwari, MD, Professor
Medical Imaging, Medicine, Pathology, and Surgery; Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs
Chief, Abdominal Radiology; Assistant Dean, Women in Medicine and Science (WIMS) Program, College of Medicine-Tucson
Forrest Baker, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness; UACC
William Dalton, PhD, MD
Malignant Hematology, Molecular Medicine Program, Moffitt Cancer Center
Joe (Skip) Garcia, MD
Associate Vice President for Research, The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology, University of Florida
Edward P Gelmann, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, UA College of Medicine; John Norton Endowed Chair for Prostate Cancer Research, UACC
Lori A. Hazlehurst, PhD
Professor, School of Pharmacy, Associate Center Director, Basic Science, WVU Cancer Institute
Mark Henderson, PhD (NCATS)
Biology Group Leader, Early Translation Branch, Division of Preclinical Innovation, NIH
Jeffrey R Jacobson, MD
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine
Emmanuel Katsanis, MD
Professor, Pediatrics; Professor, Pathology; Professor, Immunobiology; Professor, Medicine; Professor, BIO5 Institute; Program Director, Blood and Bone Marrow Transplant, UA College of Medicine
Beatrice S. Knudsen, MD/PhD
Medical Director of Computational Pathology, University of Utah, Huntsman Cancer Center
Terry H Landowski, PhD
Staff Scientist, Ventana Medical Systems
Benjamin Lee, MD
Chair and Professor, The George W. Drach Endowed Chair in Urology, Department of Urology, UACC
Ghassan Mouneimne, PhD
Associate Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Shared Resource Director, Microscopy, UACC
Cindy Miranti, PhD, Professor
Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Chair, Cancer Biology GIDP; Co-Program Leader, Cancer Biology Research Program; Professor, BIO5 Institute, UACC
Raymond B Nagle, MD, PhD
Pathology, UACC, Emeritus
Megha Padi, PhD
Assistant Professor, Cellular & Molecular Medicine; UACC
Ritu Pandey, PhD
Associate Research Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine – (Research Series Track); Associate Director, Translational Clinical Bioinformatics; Coordinator, Biomedical Informatics; UA College of Medicine
Kelvin W. Pond, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UACC
Frank Porreca, PhD, Professor, Pharmacology; Associate Department Head, Pharmacology, UACC
Denise Roe, DrPH
Professor, Biostatistics; Director of Biometry, UACC
Gregory C. Rogers, PhD
Dept of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UACC; Associate Head, Faculty Development; Professor, BIO5 Institute; Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP; Professor, Genetics GIDP; Professor, Molecular and Cellular Biology
Baldassarre Stea, MD, PhD
Clinical Medical Director, Radiation Oncology; Department Head, Radiation Oncology; Member of the Graduate Faculty; Professor, Neurosurgery; Professor, Radiation Oncology, UA College of Medicine
Belinda Sun, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pathology; Chief, GI/Liver Pathology Service; Program Director of the GI Fellowship, UA College of Medicine
Noel A. Warfel, PhD
Dept of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, UACC; Associate Professor, Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Vice Chair, Cancer Biology GIDP; Associate Professor, Cancer Biology GIDP; Co-Director, Experimental Mouse Shared Resource
Charles Wolgemuth, PhD
Professor of Physics, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Director of Undergraduate Studies, University of Arizona