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

Matthew R Coope

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

Colin Shane Nelson

PhD candidate

Rafael Sainz, MS

PhD student

Ishnoor Kaur Sandhu

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