University of Georgia

Areas of Expertise

The University of Georgia Cancer Center is taking a broad-based and interdisciplinary approach to fighting cancer. Our areas of expertise are:

Cancer genetics, epigenetics, and cancer biology

Timothy A. Bolger

Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Center for Molecular Medicine

David J. Garfinkel

David J. Garfinkel

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Mary Goll

Mary Goll

Associate Professor, Department of Genetics, Department of Genetics

Zachary Lewis

Zachary A. Lewis

Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology

Wentao Li

Wentao Li

Assistant Professor, College of Public Health - Environmental Health Science

Aditya Mishra

Aditya Mishra

Assistant professor, Department of Statistics, University of Georgia

Yaguang Xi

College of Pharmacy, PBS Department Head, Professor, UGA Athletic Association Distinguished Professor in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Jason Zastre

Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Graduate Coordinator, Interim Assistant Department Head for Graduate Education Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Shaying Zhao

Shaying Zhao

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Prevention/Epidemiology

Alison Berg

Alison Clune Berg

Associate Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Amber Clemmons

Clinical and Administrative Pharmacy, Augusta Campus, Clinical Professor, College of Pharmacy

Kevin K. Dobbin

Kevin K. Dobbin

Associate Professor of Biostatistics, College of Public Health

Tamas Nagy

Tamas Nagy

Associate Professor, Anatomic Pathology

Jia-Sheng Wang

Jia-Sheng Wang

Department Head, Environmental Health Science

Chemical strategies for therapeutic development

Eileen J. Kennedy

Eileen J. Kennedy

Director, UGA Cancer Center, Georgia Athletic Association Professor

Jeffrey L. Urbauer

Jeffrey L. Urbauer

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Zachary A. Wood

Zachary A. Wood

Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Jin Xie

Jin Xie

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

George Zheng

College of Pharmacy, Panoz Professor of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Targeting cancer motility/signaling pathways

Houijan Cai

Houijan Cai

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Eugene Douglass

Eugene Douglass

Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Gerald Hart

Gerald Hart

Georgia Research Alliance William Henry Terry, Sr. Eminent Scholar in Drug Discovery, and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Karin Allenspach Jorn

Department of Pathology, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

Natarajan Kannan

Natarajan Kannan

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB)

Edward T. Kipreos

Edward T. Kipreos

Professor, Department of Cellular Biology

Leidong Mao

Leidong Mao

College of Engineering, Professor, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jon Mochel

College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology, Director, Precision Medicine, Professor of Systems Pharmacology

Corey Saba

Corey Saba

Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Professor, Oncology Service, Small Animal Medicine & Surgery, Veterinary Teaching Hospital

Walter Schmidt

Walter K. Schmidt

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB)

Somanath Shenoy

Somanath Shenoy

Director, Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics

Cancer cell surface targeting

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine, UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center

J. Michael Pierce

J. Michael Pierce

Distinguished Research Professor, Professor Emeritus

Michael Tiemeyer

Michael Tiemeyer

Professor, Associate Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Ryan Weiss

Ryan Weiss

Assistant Professor, Member of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Lance Wells

Lance Wells

Professor, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Cancer Detection

Ying Xu

Ying Xu

Georgia Research Alliance and Regents Eminent Scholar in Bioinformatics