University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)

Jennifer Grandis, MD, FACS (Leader)
Email: jgrandis@pitt.edu or grandisjr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma; epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR); STAT proteins; G-protein-coupled receptors

Simon Chiosea, MD
Email: chioseasi@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Salivary gland tumors; oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma; historic pathology archive; mutant allele-specific imbalance in solid tumors View More

Uma Duvvuri, MD, PhD
Email: duvvuriu@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Otolaryngology; translational science of head and neck cancer View More

Ann Marie Egloff, PhD
Email: egloffam@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Otolaryngology

Robert L. Ferris, MD, PhD, FACS
Email: ferrisrl@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Antigen presentation; cancer vaccines; CXC chemokines; immunotherapy; squamous cell carcinoma; head and neck neoplasms View More

William Gooding, MS
Email: weg@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Biostatistics; clinical trials

Joel Greenberger, MD
Email: greenbergerjs@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Radiation oncology; superoxide dismutase; stem cells; gene therapy View More

Dwight Heron, MD, FACRO
Email: herond2@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Radiation oncology View More

Daniel Johnson, PhD
Email: johnsond@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Apoptosis; head and neck neoplasms; myeloid and acute leukemia; myeloid differentiation; proteasome inhibitors; autophagy; signal transduction View More

Jonas Johnson, MD, FACS
Email: johnsonjt@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Squamous cell carcinoma; head and neck neoplasms View More

Saleem Khan, PhD
Email: khan@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular biology and pathogenesis of human papillomaviruses (HPVs); role of microRNAs in HPV-associated cancers, and in aging; DNA helicases; replication of drug resistance and virulence plasmids of S. aureus and B. anthracis View More

Seungwon (Steve) Kim, PhD
Email: kimsw2@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Squamous cell carcinoma; head and neck neoplasms View More

Greg Kubicek, MD
Email: kubicekg@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Novel treatment modalities including; radiosurgery for oligometastatic disease and advanced imaging for lung and head and neck cancer View More

James Mountz, MD, PhD
Email: mountzjm@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Radiology; functional brain imaging; diagnostic PET-CT; quantitative biomarker imaging for early therapy response assessment in cancer View More

Eugene Myers, MD
Email: myersen@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Otorhinolaryngologic neoplasms; lymphatic metastasis; surgery; squamous cell carcinoma View More

Yuri Nikiforov, MD, PhD
Email: nikiforovye@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular mechanisms of radiation-induced carcinogenesis and chromosomal rearrangements in human cells; molecular basis of thyroid cancer View More

Daniel Normolle, PhD
Email: dpn7@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Biostatistics; design of dose-escalation trials; biomarker adaptive clinical trials View More

Anil Parwani, MD, PhD
Email: parwaniav@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Urological pathology; anatomical pathology informatics; digital imaging; clinical applications of whole slide imaging View More

Donna Posluszny, PhD
Email: poslusznydm@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Coping with medical illnesses including cancer; psychological stress; stem cell transplantation View More

William Saunders, PhD
Email: wsaund@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer cell division View More

Raja Seethala, MD, FASCP
Email: seethalarr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Head and neck pathology; biomarker validation in head and neck cancer; tissue banking View More

Alexander Sorkin, PhD
Email: sorkin@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Endocytosis of growth factor receptors; trafficking processes in the regulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission View More

Michael Stang, MD
Email: stanhmt@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Endocrine tumors; inflammation View More

Sufi-Mary Thomas, PhD
Email: thomsm@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Signal transduction pathways in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma View More

Nikola Vujanovic, MD, PhD
Email: vujanovicnl@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Mechanisms of cytotoxicity mediated by immune effector cells and their role in anticancer host defense; TNF family ligands and receptors View More

Joel Weissfeld, MD, MPH
Email: jwepid@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer epidemiology; health services research.

Theresa Whiteside, PhD
Email: whitesidetl@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Tumor immunology and immunotherapy View More

Jian Yu, PhD
Email: yuj2@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Apoptosis regulation and the role of the Bcl-2 protein family in cancer biology and therapy View More