University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)

Jill Siegfried, PhD (Co-Leader)
Email: siegfriedlm@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Lung cancer; cancer pharmacology; growth factors and hormones View More

Mark Socinski, MD (Co-Leader)
Email: socinskima@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Lung cancer; clinical trials View More

Michael Becich, MD, PhD
Email: becich@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Translational bioinformatics; oncology informatics; tissue banking and pathology informatics; prostate tumor cell biology; research resource development; content-based image retrieval and digital libraries View More

William Bigbee, PhD
E-mail: bigbeewl@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer biomarkers; non-small-cell lung carcinoma; proteomics; mass spectrometry

Neil Christie, MD
Email: nac8@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Thoracic surgery; thoracic oncology View More

Sanja Dacic, MD, PhD
Email: dacics@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Lung neoplasms; biological tumor markers View More

Roger Day, ScD
Email: day01@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Bioinformatics; biostatistics View More

Rajiv Dhir, MD
Email: dhirr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Genitourinary (GU) pathology; biomarkers related to GU disease; tissue banking View More

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

Olivera Finn, PhD
Email: ojfinn@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer vaccines; tumor-specific immunity View More

Carl Fuhrman, MD
Email: fuhrcr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Oncologic imaging View More

Michael Gibson, MD
Email: gibsonmk@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Clinical trials; epidermal growth factor; esophageal; head and neck, and thyroid neoplasms; translational research View More

Mark Gladwin, MD
Email: gladwinmt@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Pulmonary hypertension; cellular effects of nitric oxide; investigational therapeutics View More

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

Vanathi Gopalakrishnan, PhD
Email: vanathi@cbmi.upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Bioinformatics; computational biology View More

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

Milos Hauskrecht, PhD
Email: milos@cs.pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Biomedical informatics; data mining; application of electronic health record (EHR) data in clinical decision support View More

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

Naftali Kaminski, MD
Email: kaminskin@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Interstitial lung diseases; idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis View More

Phouthone Keohavong, PhD
E-mail: pho1@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis; mutational pathways View More

Rodney Landreneau, MD
Email: rjl10@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Minimally invasive surgical approaches to lung, esophageal, and thoracic cancers; lung cancer molecular biology View More

James Luketich, MD
Email: luketichjd@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Esophagogastric and lung carcinoma; benign esophageal disease View More

Luis Ortiz, MD
Email: lao1@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Lung cancer; immunobiology View More

Arjun Pennathur, MD
Email: arjunp@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular staging of esophageal and lung cancer; image-guided technologies Cyberknife Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Radiofrequency Ablation for the treatment of lung cancer; surgical outcomes research; minimally invasive thoracic surgery and robotics View More

John Reilly, Jr, MD
Email: reillyj@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Genetic and environmental factors associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Role of alveolar macrophage enzymes in emphysema, COPD, and lung cancer View More

Marjorie Romkes, PhD
E-mail: romkes@dom.pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular epidemiology; pharmacogenomics; cancer susceptibility

Frank Sciurba, MD
Email: sciurbafc@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular epidemiology; pharmacogenomics; cancer susceptibility View More

Steven Shapiro, MD
Email: shapirosd@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Role of inflammatory cell derived proteinases in the progression of COPD/emphysema and lung cancer View More

Laura Stabile, PhD
Email: las22@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Protein kinases and phosphatases View More

Ahmad Tarhini, MD, MSc
Email: tarhiniaa@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Metastatic melanoma; anti-angiogenic therapeutic agents; melanoma biomarkers View More

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

David Wilson, MD
Email: wilsondo@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Lung cancer screening and chemoprevention, diagnosis, staging and treatment; COPD, especially as it relates to lung cancer; occupational lung diseases; general pulmonary medicine View More

Samuel Yousem, MD
Email: yousemsa@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Inflammatory lung disease and lung transplantation; pulmonary neoplasia; molecular predictors of biologic behavior and therapeutic responsiveness View More

Li-Ming Zhang, MD
Email: zhangl1@anes.upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Lung biology; functional genomics of ventilator-induced lung injury View More

Lin Zhang, PhD
Email: zhanglx@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Protein kinases and phosphatases; cancer pharmacology View More