University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)

Joel Nelson, MD (Co-Leader)
Email: nelsonjb@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Prostate cancer; urinary tract malignancies; hormone refractory cancer View More

Zhou Wang, PhD (Co-Leader)
Email: wangz2@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Androgen action in prostate cancer View More

Gerard Apodaca, PhD
Email: gla6@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cell biology; uroepithelium; kidney epithelium; rho family GTPases; exocytosis; endocytosis View More

Leonard Appleman, MD, PhD
Email: applemanlj@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Kidney cancer and other genitourinary malignancies; experimental cancer therapeutics View More

Dean Bacich, PhD
Email: djb26@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Mechanisms and models of prostate carcinogenesis 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

Ronald Benoit, MD
Email: benoitrm@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Assessment of health care quality and effectiveness View More

Clareann Bunker, PhD
E-mail: bunkerc@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Prostate cancer; ovarian cancer; molecular epidemiology; obesity; blood pressure; hypertension

Billy Day, PhD
Email: bday@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Antitumor, anti-HIV, and organ damage-reversal agent synthesis; radio- and stable isotope-labeled drugs, toxins and metabolites; photoaffinity probes View More

Donald DeFranco, PhD
Email: dod1@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Receptor pharmacology; neuropharmacology; signal transduction View More

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

Jeffrey Gingrich, MD
Email: gingrichjr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Urologic oncology; bladder cancer View More

James Gnarra, PhD
Email: gnarraj@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
The von Hippel-Lindau (VHL) tumor suppressor; hypoxia-responsive gene products; cell cycle View More

Susan Greenspan, MD
Email: greenspansl3@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Osteoporosis in elderly men & women; combination therapy for treatment of osteoporosis; osteoporosis in men with prostate cancer View More

Ronald Hrebinko, MD
Email: hrebinkorl@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Urologic cancers View More

Paul Johnston, PhD
Email: paj18@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
High throughput drug discovery screening; HTS/HCS assay development and implementation View More

Yong Lee, PhD
Email: leeyj@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Metabolic oxidative stress-induced signal transduction pathways; targeted cancer therapy View More

Song Li, MD, PhD
Email: sol4@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Targeted delivery of therapeutics; gene regulation View More

Anna Lokshin, PhD
E-mail: lokshina@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer biomarkers for screening, diagnosis, prognosis, and disease monitoring; cancer stem cells

Jianhua Luo, MD, PhD
Email: luojh@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Prostate cancer gene expression; invasion and metastasis
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Jodi Maranchie, MD, FACS
Email: maranchiejk@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Kidney cancer View More

Denise O'Keefe, PhD
Email: dso1@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Epigenetics and prostate cancer 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

Jan Pilch, MD
Email: pilchj@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Genitourinary cancer; tumor homing peptides; tumor metastasis View More

Michael Shurin, MD
Email: shurinmr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Tumor-induced immunomodulation; dendritic cells; cancer immunotherapy; psychoneuroendocrine factors of immunosuppression in cancer View More

Shivendra Singh, PhD
E-mail: singhs@upmc.edu or svs2@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer pharmacology; drug discovery; chemoprevention; dietary anti-cancer compounds

Ryan Smith, MD
Email: smitrp@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Radiation oncology View More

Walter Storkus, PhD
Email: storkuswj@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Tumor immunology; dendritic cells and cancer; characterization of tumor-associated antigens; cancer vaccines View More

Changfeng Tai, PhD
Email: cftai@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Neurophysiology and neuropharmacology of the lower urinary tract; electrical nerve stimulation View More

Qiming Wang, PhD
Email: qjw1@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Signal transduction; protein kinases & phosphatases; structural pharmacology; cancer pharmacology; drug discovery View More

Alan Wells, MD, DMS
Email: wellsa@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cell migration and motility; EGFR View More

Cary (Chuanyue) Wu, PhD
Email: carywu@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cell-matrix adhesion; signal transduction View More

Wen Xie, MD, PhD
Email: wex6@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Drug metabolizing enzymes and transporters; orphan nuclear receptor-mediated regulation of genes View More

Yan Ping Yu, MD, PhD
Email: ypyu@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Genomic instability in prostate cancer; cancer cell transformation View More