Research Labs

Physician-scientist David Solit studies human oncology and pathogenesis, genomics, oncogenes and tumor suppressors, cancer therapeutics, and clinical trials.

Dr. Solomon is an interventional radiologist whose team investigates novel minimally invasive, image-guided therapies and their biologic and immunologic interactions.

The Studer laboratory investigates human stem cells as tools to understand normal and pathological development in the nervous system and to develop cell-based strategies for regenerative medicine.

Immunologist Joseph Sun investigates the natural killer cell response against infection and cancer.

Physician-scientist Viviane Tabar focuses on stem cells as tools for brain repair and for modeling brain cancer.

Cancer biologist Tuomas Tammela investigates cellular heterogeneity in lung and pancreatic cancers.

Derek Tan’s lab studies diversity-oriented synthesis and rational drug design of probes and lead compounds for chemical biology and drug discovery.

Physician-scientist Laura Tang studies the molecular pathogenesis of cell transformation in neuroendocrine neoplasms of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas and adenocarcinomas of the stomach and gastrointestinal junction.

The Tansey lab focuses on solving frontier problems in cancer data science through the development of innovative statistical machine learning methods.

Craig Thompson studies molecular signaling pathways that regulate nutrient uptake and the role these pathways play in the regulation of cell growth and survival.