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

Dr. Bin Yi

Bin Yi

Associate Research Scientist, College of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

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Megan Corbett

Assistant Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Pathology

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

Department of Genetics, Professor, Department of Genetics

Zachary Lewis

Zachary A. Lewis

Professor, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Microbiology

Wentao Li

Wentao Li

Assistant Professor, College of Public Health - Environmental Health Science

Aditya Mishra

Aditya Mishra

Assistant Professor, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Statistics

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, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

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Prevention/Epidemiology

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Eunhao Shin

Assistant Professor, College of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management

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

UGA Athletic Association Professor in Public Health, College of Public Health, Department of Environmental Health Science

Chemical Strategies for Therapeutic Development

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David Crich

Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Drug Design, College of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences

Jeffrey L. Urbauer

Jeffrey L. Urbauer

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry

Zachary A. Wood

Zachary A. Wood

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor American Cancer Society Research Scholar Georgia Cancer Coalition Scholar

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Jin Xie

Professor, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Chemistry

George Zheng

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

Targeting Cancer Motility/Signaling Pathways

Yang Liu, PH.D.

Yang Liu

Assistant Professor, College of Engineering, School of Chemical, Materials & Biomedical Engineering

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Kenan Song

Associate Professor, College of Engineering, ECAM/CMBE

Houijan Cai

Houijan Cai

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Eugene Douglass

Eugene Douglass

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

Robert S. Haltiwanger

Robert S. Haltiwanger

Professor and GRA Eminent Scholar in Biomedical Glycosciences, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Karin Allenspach Jorn

Department of Pathology, Professor, College of Veterinary Medicine

Natarajan Kannan

Natarajan Kannan

Interim Director, Professor, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Edward T. Kipreos

Edward T. Kipreos

Professor, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Cellular Biology

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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, Franklin College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Somanath Shenoy

Somanath Shenoy

Director, Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics

Cancer Cell Surface Targeting

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Professor of Regenerative Medicine, UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center

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J. Michael Pierce

Distinguished Research Professor, Professor Emeritus

Michael Tiemeyer

Michael Tiemeyer

Joint Director of the CCRC and CMM, Distinguished Research Professor, Co-Director COE in Glycoproteomics

Ryan Weiss

Ryan Weiss

Assistant Professor, Member of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Lance Wells

Lance Wells

Distinguished Research Professor and GRA Distinguished Investigator, Associate Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Cancer Detection

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Kenan Song

Associate Professor, College of Engineering, ECAM/CMBE