CancerQuest presents interviews with researchers and clinicians involved in cancer research and in the development of new cancer treatments. The interviews provide insight into their motivations and the results of their efforts. Meet the people behind the medicines:
Dr. Alex Adjei Senior Vice President of Clinical Research, Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, The Katherine Anne Gioia Chair in Cancer Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Dr. Kevin Ault Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Allan Balmain Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Genetics, Co-Leader, Cancer Genetics Program, and Director, Genome Analysis Core Facility, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Dr. Jonathan Beitler Professor of Oncology and Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine, The Emory Clinic, American Radium Society
Dr. Gerold Bepler Chair, Department of Thoracic Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Dr. Robin Bostick Professor of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health Professor of Hematology & Medical Oncology Emory University's School of Medicine and Winship Cancer Institute
Dr. Michael Burke Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Atlanta VA Medical Center
Dr. Suephy Chen Associate Professor of Dermatology, Director of the Dermatology Clinical and Outcomes Research Unit, Emory University, Staff Physician, Atlanta VAMC
Dr. Gabriela Chiosis Lab Head, Molecular Pharmacology and Chemistry, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Dr. Jeffrey Engleman Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Medical Oncology
Dr. Gerard Evan Gerson and Barbara Bass Bakar Distinguished Professorship in Cancer Research, UCSF
Dr. David Flockhart Harry and Edith Gladstein Chair in Cancer Genomics and Professor of Medicine, Medical Genetics and Pharmacology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Wishard Memorial Hospital
Dr. Haian Fu Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Professor, Department of Hematology & Oncology, Emory School of Medicine
Dr. Ralph Garippa Head of Cell-Based High Throughput Screening (HTS) and Microscopic Imaging-based High Content Screening, Roche Discovery Technologies
Dr. Susan Goodin Director of Pharmacy and Professor of Medicine, Medical Oncology, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, The Cancer Institute of New Jersey
Dr. Kun-Liang Guan Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Cancer Biology Program, University of California- San Diego
Dr. William Hahn Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Senior Associate Member, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
Dr. Samir Hanash Program Head, Molecular Diagnostics, Public Heath Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Dr. Ira Horowitz Willaford Ransom Leach Professor in Gynecologic Oncology, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, Chief Medical Officer, Emory University Hospital, Associate Director, The Emory Clinic
Dr. Jean-Pierre Issa The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Leukemia
Dr. Bruce Johnson Professor, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Adult Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Dr. Fadlo Khuri Deputy Director for Clinical and Translational Research, Blomeyer Professor of Hematology and Oncology, Professor of Hematology & Oncology, Otolaryngology, Medicine and Pharmacology, Chief Medical Officer of Emory Winship, and co-Director of the Institute’s Cancer Drug Discovery, Development, and Delivery Program.
Dr. Jeanne Kowalski Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Bioinfostatistics and BIoinformatics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Dr. Brian Leyland-Jones Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. Dennis Liotta Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry, Emory University
Dr. Scott Lippman Chair, Department of Thoracic/Head and Neck Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Professor, Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences
Dr. Shakun Malik U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Dr. Bill Nelson Professor, Departments of Oncology, Urology, Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences, Medicine, Pathology, and Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, John's Hopkins School of Medicine
Dr. Tomi Ogunleye Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
Dr. John Petros Associate Professor of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine, Veterans Administration Hospital
Dr. Michael Pierce Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Director of UGA Cancer Center
Dr. Peter Rossi Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University
Dr. Joel Saltz Director, Center for Comprehensive Informatics, Professor in the Departments of Pathology, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, and Mathematics and Computer Science, Emory University, Chief Medical Information Officer at Emory Health-care, Adjunct Professor of Computational Science and Engineering at Georgia Tech, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Informatics, and Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar
Dr. Steven Sherman Naguib Samaan Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dr. Frank Slack Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology, Yale University
Dr. James Snyder Director of Biostructural Research, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
Dr. Alex SparreboomFaculty Member, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
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