Cancer Center Research Program Leaders

Cancer Biology Program

About the program
Program leaders:

Cancer Center Research Leader Cancer Biology Kun-Liang Guan

 

Kun-Liang Guan, PhD
Professor of Pharmacology
(858) 822-7945
kuguan@ucsd.edu

 

Cancer Center Research Leader Cancer Biology Dong-Er Zhang

Dong-Er Zhang, PhD
Professor
Biological Sciences and Pathology
(858) 822-5372
d7zhang@ucsd.edu 

Cancer Genes and Genome Program

About the program
Program leaders:
 Kelly Frazer, Cancer Genes and Genome Kelly A. Frazer, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics
(858) 246-0208
kafrazer@ucsd.edu
Xiang-Dong Fu, PhD

 

Xiang-Dong Fu, PhD
Professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine & Medicine
(858) 534-4937
xdfu@ucsd.edu  

Cancer Prevention and Control Program

About the program
Program leader:
 Ruth Patterson PhD

Ruth Patterson, PhD
Professor of Family
& Preventive Medicine
(858) 534-2563
repatterson@ucsd.edu

 

Hematologic Malignancies Program

About the program
Program leaders:

 Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD

Thomas J. Kipps, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
(858) 534-5400
tkipps@ucsd.edu
 Hematologic Malignancies Edward D. Ball Edward D. Ball, MD
Professor of Medicine
(858) 822-6842
tball@ucsd.edu

Reducing Cancer Disparities Program

About the program
Program leaders:

Dr. Elena Martinez 

 

Elena Martinez, PhD
Professor of Family & Preventive Medicine
(858) 822-3638 e8martinez@ucsd.edu

 

Reducing Cancer Disparities John P. Elder

John P. Elder, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics
(619) 594-2997
jelder@mail.sdsu.edu

Tumor Growth, Invasion and Metastasis Program

About the program
Program leaders:

 Tumor Growth Invasion and Metastasis Program Leader David Cheresh David Cheresh, PhD
Professor of Pathology
(855) 822-2232
dcheresh@ucsd.edu
 Tumor Invasion and Metastsis Program Leader Stephen B. Howell Stephen B. Howell, MD
Professor of Medicine
(858) 822-1112
showell@ucsd.edu