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Dr. Paul Harari is chairman of the Department of Human Oncology, principal investigator for the Wisconsin H&N SPORE Grant and member of the UW Carbone Cancer Center Senior Leadership Council. His clinical and laboratory research is focused on improving treatment outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer.
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Dr. Gopal Iyer is a cancer biologist whose research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of lung and pancreatic cancer development and progression toward metastasis.
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Dr. Randall Kimple specializes in treating patients with malignancies of the head and neck. In his research laboratory, he uses patient-derived xenografts to test radiation, chemotherapy and combinations of therapies to understand which characteristics of a patient’s tumor may predict response to treatment.
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Dr. Zachary Morris treats patients with melanoma and soft tissue sarcomas. His independent translational research laboratory focuses on the mechanisms whereby radiation may enhance the response to immunotherapies. He also serves as vice chair of the department and program director for the University of Wisconsin Bentson Translational Research Fellowship.
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Dr. Paul Sondel is the Reed and Carolee Walker Professor of Pediatric Oncology. He leads a multidisciplinary team that provides comprehensive and compassionate, state-of-the-art treatment for childhood cancer and hematology patients. His research is focused on inducing in vivo activated innate immune effector cells to provide anti-tumor benefit.
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Dr. Randal Tibbetts studies genome surveillance, cell growth and neurodegeneration. Current work in his lab is aimed at understanding how diverse growth-inhibitory signals, including DNA damage, cell-cell contact and growth factor depletion downregulate gene expression through the CREB pathway and how defects in this regulation contribute to tumorigenesis.
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Dr. Deric Wheeler serves as the director of Translational Medicine and Cancer Biology. His laboratory is focused on understanding mechanisms of resistance to molecular targeting agents directed against receptor tyrosine kinases in cancers of the head and neck and breast.
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Dr. Albert van der Kogel is a cancer biologist with expertise on the effects of radiation on normal tissues and radiation resistance mechanisms. He consults and collaborates on various research projects. He also teaches radiobiology courses for medical physics undergraduates, graduates and radiation oncology residents.