Experimental Therapeutics Member Directory
The Experimental Therapeutics (ET) program is a Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) program specifically organized to facilitate the development and validation of experimental therapeutic approaches for cancer applications. The ET program draws from resources within Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and leverages the existing strengths of the University of Utah in genetics, pharmaceutics, and imaging. Program membership, scientific expertise and interests, and goals are specifically aligned with the vision of making individualized oncology a reality. ET program goals include the following:
- Provide new approaches to individualized cancer diagnosis and therapy by developing new imaging techniques, diagnostics, and therapeutics, including image-guided and targeted drug delivery systems
- Foster bidirectional translation of discoveries between the laboratory and the clinic by developing collaborations and scientific synergy among Cancer Center Program members
- Better understand unmet clinical needs in cancer through collaboration and interaction with HCI Multidisciplinary Disease Groups
- Advance theoretical and preclinical projects toward human applications in collaborative research projects
- Develop and execute investigator-initiated clinical trials to establish new treatments for patients
The expertise of its members, from various departments from the colleges of Science, Pharmacy, Medicine, and Engineering, provides for truly cross-disciplinary research in cancer.
The ET program has been organized into three thematic areas based on the membership's scientific interests and expertise and the vision of the program and Cancer Center as a whole.
Imaging: use of molecular imaging and image-guided therapy to improve diagnosis, therapy, and clinical care
Diagnostics: development of novel diagnostic strategies for cancer characterization to improve therapies and to provide prognostic information to improve clinical care
Therapeutics: development of novel drugs and drug delivery systems, involving preclinical development, pharmacology, and clinical trials, both sponsored and investigator-initiated
The three thematic areas of scientific interest and expertise in the ET program facilitate linking basic science to clinical oncology with the resulting outcome of a significant programmatic interest in investigator-initiated trials for imaging, diagnostics, and therapeutics. The program structure also facilitates the use of CCSG Shared Resources to improve the quality of cancer-related research and clinical trials performed by ET program members.
The Experimental Therapeutics Program currently receives approximately $9.1 million per year of direct research support from the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, with 36% coming from the National Cancer Institute. Cancer-focused articles published between 2003 and 2009 total 466, of which 15% are inter-programmatic and 17% are intra-programmatic publications.
Sunil Sharma, MD John M. Hoffman, MD
Co-Leader Co-Leader
HCI, Room 3380 HCI, Room 2121
801-587-5597 801-587-4064
ET Membership Directory
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- Agarwal, Neeraj
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Research Interest: Prostate and kidney cancers
- Akerley, Wallace
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: (801) 585-3453
Research Interest: Experimental therapeutics, clinical trials in oncology, lung cancer and melanoma
- Andtbacka, Robert
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 587-4499
Research Interest: New modalities for the detection of sentinel lymph nodes in patients with melanoma and breast cancer
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- Bae, You Han
Department: Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Phone: (801) 585-1518
Research Interest: Anticancer drug carrier design targeting MDR
- Barnette, Phillip
Department: Pediatrics; Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Phone: (801) 585-5543
Research Interest: Oncology trials in pediatric patients - Barrows, Louis
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
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Phone: (801) 581-4547
Research Interest: Colon cancer, retinoic acid, DNA methylation, cancer therapeutics
- Bearss, David
Department: Oncological Sciences
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Phone: (801) 587-4561
Research Interest: Use of computational approaches to modeling protein-small molecule interactions to discover potential drug candidates and algorithm development for developing models to predict ADME characteristics of small molecules for use in drug discovery
- Bernard, Philip
Department: Pathology
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Phone: (801) 581-5353
Research Interest: Molecular diagnostics of solid and soft tumors
- Bild, Andrea
Department: Pharmacology and Toxicology
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Phone: (801) 581-6353
Research Interest: Signal transduction in tumor initiation and metastasis -
Bronner, Mary
Department: Pathology
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Phone: (801) 587-4326
Research Interest: Gastrointestinal cancers arising in chronic inflammatory disease, such as inflammatory bowel disease, gastritis, Barnetts, pancreatitis, and hepatitis
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- Cohen, Adam
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: (801) 587-4725
Research Interest: New therapies and personalization of therapy in breast cancer and primary brain tumors
- Colman, Howard
Department: Neurosurgery
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Phone: (801) 585-0270
Research Interest: Identification and validation of novel biomarkers of prognosis and treatment response in primary brain tumors and the isolation, characterization, and use of brain tumor stem cells for drug discovery and identification of novel therapeutic targets
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- DiBella, Edward
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 585-5543
Research Interest: Mathematical models to quantify physiological parameters of cancer from MRI
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- Firpo, Matt
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 587-9049
Research Interest: Pancreatic cancer
- Furgeson, Darin
Department: Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Phone: (801) 581-7271
Research Interest: Cleaning dirty tumor margins with thermo-targeted chemotherapy and microwave ablation; Recominant siRNA delivery vehicles to treat neuro-disease across the blood brain barrier
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- Gaffney, David
Department: Radiation Oncology
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Phone: (801) 581-2396
Research Interest: Radiotherapy for gynecology, breast, and lymphoma - Garrido-Laguna, Ignacio
- Ghandehari, Hamid
Department: Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Phone: (801) 587-1566
Research Interest: Design of new polymers for gene therapy of head and neck cancer - Grissom, Charles
Department: Biochemistry
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Phone: (801) 581-4153
Research Interest: Cancer drug development, tumor imaging, lymph node imaging - Grossmann, Kenneth
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: (801) 587-4735
Research Interest: Resistance mechanisms in targeted therapy and epigenetic change especially in melanoma
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: 801-585-1435
Research Interest: Pancreatic cancer, drugs targeting stroma, EMT
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- Halwani, Ahmad
Department: Hematology
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Phone: (801) 213-4334
Research Interest: I am interested in understanding the various interactions between cancer and the immune system and how they relate to clinical endpoints; as well as in immunotherapy/immunomodulation as a therapeutic modality for cancer treatment - CV
CCSG Program: Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics (IDT) - Hanrahan, Chris
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 581-5910
Research Interest: Molecular imaging for musculoskeletal disease, including myeloma and sarcoma
- Heilbrun, Marta
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 581-7553
Research Interest: Metabolic signaling in cancer, cancer outcomes research in radiology
- Hoffman, John
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 587-4064
Research Interest: Molecular imaging, particularly positron emission tomography (PET) imaging in cancer patients
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- Ireland, Chris
Department: Medicinal Chemistry
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Phone: (801) 581-8305
Research Interest: Cancer genetics, marine natural products
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- Janát-Amsbury, Margit
Department: Obstetrics/Gynecology
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Phone: (801) 213-2248
Research Interest: The development of novel, mainly nanotechnology-based systems for clinical cancer therapy - Jensen, Randy
Department: Neurosurgery
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Phone: (801) 581-6908
Research Interest: Brain tumor angiogenesis and hypxoxia
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- Kadrmas, Dan
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 581-5937
Research Interest: Biomaterials and drug delivery, positron emission tomography (PET) imaging - Khong, Hung
Department: Internal Medicine
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Phone: (801) 213-4260
Research Interest: Immuntherapy of cancer; third generation biochemotherapy; epigenetic modulation in the treatment of cancer; novel combination of chemotherapy/targeted therapy - CV
CCSG Program: Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics (IDT) - Kim, Sung Wan
Department: Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Phone: (801) 581-6801
Research Interest: Medical polymers and drug delivery, angiogenesis targeting - Kopecek, Jindrich
Department: Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry
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Phone: (801) 581-7211
Research Interest: Biomaterials and drug delivery
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- McGreevy, James
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 581-4488
Research Interest: Identification of novel tumor markers
- Morrell, Glen
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 581-7553
Research Interest: Breast MRI and MRI characterization of breast cancer - Morton, Kathryn
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 585-9068
Research Interest: Molecular imaging, PET scanning in cancer - Mulvihill, Sean
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 581-7304
Research Interest: Biology of pancreatic cancer
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- Neumayer, Leigh
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 581-2431
Research Interest: Clinical trials in breast malignancies, surgical treatment and improved diagnostic strategies in breast cancer and sentinel lymph nodes in breast cancer
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- Parker, Dennis
Department: Radiology
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Phone: (801) 581-8654
Research Interest: MR angiography, MRI scanner design, MRI guided thermal ablation of tumors - Porter, Marc
Department: Pathology
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Phone: (801) 587-8654
Research Interest: Innovations in nanotechnology for the creation of ultrasensitive and real-time assays for the detection of cancer markers including PSA and pancreatic cancer - Prchal, Josef
Department: Hematology
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Phone: (801) 585-3229
Research Interest: Germ line and somatic mutations leading to disease hematopoiesis, identifying the molecular basis of these disorders - Pulsipher, Michael
Department: Pediatrics; Division of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Phone: (801) 588-2680
Research Interest: Reduced intensity allogeneic transplantation, transplantation of pediatric ALL, hematopoietic stem cell donor safety
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- Randall, R. Lor
Department: Orthopaedics
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Phone: (801) 581-7601
Research Interest: Genetics of sarcoma - Rapoport, Natalya
Department: Bioengineering
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Phone: (801) 231-2480
Research Interest: Combined ultrasonography and ultrasound-mediated chemotherapy of drug-sensitive and multidrug resistant tumors
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- Scaife, Courtney
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 585-6911
Research Interest: Pancreas cancer modeling and mechanisms of metastases - Shami, Paul
Department: Medicine; Division of Hematology
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Phone: (801) 585-0255
Research Interest: Nitric oxide and hematopoietic cell biology, acute leukemia and myelodysplatic syndromes - Sharma, Sunil
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: (801) 587-5597
Research Interest: Gastrointestinal cancers (colon, pancreatic, esophageal, rectal, liver), mesothelioma, and rare tumors (carcinoid, neuroendocrine tumors, and carcinomas of unknown primarys) - Shea, Jill E.
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 585-0593
Research Interest: Gain a better understanding of the importance of tumor-stroma interactions in the progression of pancreas cancer, and through this knowledge improve patient care by assisting in the development of new imaging and treatments for this devastating cancer.
CCSG Program: Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics (IDT) - Shrieve, Dennis
Department: Radiation Oncology
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Phone: (801) 581-8793
Research Interest: Assessment of the intrinsic radiosensitivity of human tumors, mechanisms of intrinsic cellular resistance to radiation and chemotherapy and combined chemotherapy/radiotherapy, clinical trials in brain tumors
- Sklow, Brad
Department: Surgery
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Phone: (801) 581-7124
Research Interest: Molecular genetics of colon cancer
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- Verma, Anupam
Department: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
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Phone: (801) 662-4700
Research Interest: Translational research for development of novel target drugs for childhood cancers. Early phase clinical trials in children with cancer - CV
CCSG Program: Imaging, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics (IDT)
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- Ward, John
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: (801) 585-0255
Research Interest: Breast cancer management
- Werner, Theresa
Department: Medicine; Division of Oncology
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Phone: (801) 585-0255
Research Interest: High risk breast/ovarian cancer
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- Zangari, Maurizio
Department: Medicine; Division of Hematology
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Phone: (801) 213-2281
Research Interest: New treatments for patients with multiple myeloma, tandem autologous transplantation for treatment of multiple myeloma, personalized treatment strategies for the treatment of myeloma
