University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI)

Adrian Lee, PhD (Director)
Email: leeav@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer; steroid receptors; growth factor signaling View More

Robert Edwards, MD (Co-Director)
Email: rpe1@pitt.edu or edwarp@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Ovarian cancer; cervical cancer; intraperitoneal chemotherapy; immunotherapy View More

Gretchen Ahrendt, MD
Research Interests / Keywords:
Surgical breast cancer management

Rohit Bharghava, MD
Email: rbhargava@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Ovary/breast cancer pathology

Catherine Bender, PhD
Email: cbe100@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Neuropsychological sequellae of cancer and cancer treatment, and underlying physiological mechanisms

Wendie Berg, MD, PhD, FACR
Email: wendieberg@gmail.com
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast imaging

Dana Bovbjerg, PhD
Email: bovbjergdh@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Biobehavioral, psychological, emotional, and genetic factors in cancer risk, screening, diagnosis, and treatment

Adam Brufsky, MD, PhD
Email: brufskyam@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer; clinical trials; molecular biology of breast cancer

David Dabbs, MD
Email: ddabbs@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast/ovary pathology

Nancy E. Davidson, MD
Email: davidsonne@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Cancer biology, treatment and policy; breast cancer; novel therapeutics; hormonal regulation of breast cancer growth; estrogen receptor

Vera Donnenberg, PhD
Email: donnenbergvs@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Flow cytometry; dendritic cell subsets; stem cells View More

Heidi Donovan, PhD, RN
Email: donovanh@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Symptom management; development and testing of theoretically-guided psycho-educational interventions to improve outcomes for patients with cancer

Melanie Flint, PhD
Email: flintms@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Stress hormones and cancer; cell cycle regulation; targeted molecular therapies; drug metabolism; drug resistance

David Gur, ScD
Email: gur@pitt.edu or gurd@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Resonant Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (REIS) for early detection of breast and thyroid cancer; digital breast tomosynthesis; quantitative analyses of chest CT for early detection of lung cancer or objective evaluation of COPD; statistical analyses using ROC and FROC methodology

Xin Huang, PhD
Email: huangx2@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Hypoxia in cancer; cancer genetics
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Yi Huang, PhD
Email: yih26@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Receptor pharmacology; estrogen receptor

Rachel Jankowitz, MD
Email: jankowitzr@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer medical oncologist

Pawel Kalinski, MD, PhD
Email: kalinskip@msx.upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Therapeutic vaccines against cancer; dendritic cells in immunity View More

Thomas Krivak, MD
Email: tkrivak@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Gynecologic oncology

Barry Lembersky, MD
Email: linkfy@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer medical oncologist

Faina Linkov, PhD, MPH
Email: linkfy@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Gynecologic cancers; obesity; behavioral lifestyle intervention

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

Priscilla McAuliffe, MD, PhD
Email: mcauliffepf@mwri.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer; DCIS and and other pre-invasive malignancies; Autophagy View More

Carola Neumann, MD
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer, cell signaling and Peroxiredoxin View More

Steffi Oesterreich, PhD
Email: oesterreichs@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Molecular mechanism and clinical relevance of endocrine response in breast cancer; cancer pharmacology View More

Shannon Puhalla, MD
Email: puhallasl@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast oncology; phase I clinical studies; novel therapeutics in breast cancer

Priya Rastogi, MD
Email: rastogip@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer medical oncologist

Guillermo Romero, PhD
Email: ggr@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Receptor pharmacology; cancer pharmacology; signal transduction

Margaret Rosenzweig, PhD, CRNP-C, AOCN
Email: mros@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Symptom management in palliative care; symptom management barriers and end-of-life care for women with metastatic breast cancer

Partha Roy, PhD
Email: par19@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Actin-binding proteins in tumor cell invasion and metastasis View More

Atilla Soran, MD
Research Interests / Keywords:
Surgical oncologist View More

Richard Steinman, MD, PhD
Email: steinman@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Hematopoietic stem cells; cancer and cellular differentiation View More

Anda Vlad, MD, PhD
Email: anvst12@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Ovarian cancer; surgical oncologist; immunology View More

Yong Wan, PhD
Email: yow4@pitt.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Regulation of intracellular signaling and gene expression; DNA repair; cell cycle control View More

Mei Zhang, PhD
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast cancer, cancer stem cells, tumor microenvironment

Kristin Zorn, MD
Email: kzorn@mail.magee.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Ovarian cancer; endometrial cancer

Margarita Zuley, MD
Email: zuleyml@upmc.edu
Research Interests / Keywords:
Breast imaging