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

Prevention/Epidemiology

Alison Berg

Alison Clune Berg

Associate Professor, College of Family and Consumer Sciences

Jia-Sheng Wang

Jia-Sheng Wang

Department Head, Environmental Health Science

Kevin K. Dobbin

Kevin K. Dobbin

Associate Professor of Biostatistics, College of Public Health

Tamas Nagy

Tamas Nagy

Associate Professor, Anatomic Pathology

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

Targeting cancer motility/signaling pathways

Corey Saba

Corey Saba

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

Edward T. Kipreos

Edward T. Kipreos

Professor, Department of Cellular Biology

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

Houijan Cai

Houijan Cai

Associate Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical & Biomedical Sciences

Natarajan Kannan

Natarajan Kannan

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB)

Robert S. Haltiwanger

Robert S. Haltiwanger

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

Somanath Shenoy

Somanath Shenoy

Director, Clinical and Experimental Therapeutics

Walter Schmidt

Walter K. Schmidt

Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BCMB)

Cancer cell surface targeting

J. Michael Pierce

J. Michael Pierce

Distinguished Research Professor, Professor Emeritus

Lance Wells

Lance Wells

Professor, Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Lohitash Karumbaiah

Associate Professor of Regenerative Medicine, UGA Regenerative Bioscience Center

Michael Tiemeyer

Michael Tiemeyer

Professor, Associate Director of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Ryan Weiss

Ryan Weiss

Associate Professor, Member of the Complex Carbohydrate Research Center

Cancer Detection

Ying Xu

Ying Xu

Georgia Research Alliance and Regents Eminent Scholar in Bioinformatics