Research Labs

The Akhmanova laboratory studies cell invasion and migration through tissues, and how it is controlled by surrounding tissue cells.

The Baylies laboratory studies the mechanisms that form and maintain muscle both during normal development and in disease.

The Chiosis lab uses a unique chemical biology approach to understand, diagnose, and treat cellular processes associated with chronic molecular stress, with the ultimate goal of developing novel therapeutic options for use in the clinic.

The Farese & Walther lab studies the biology and pathology of cellular lipid metabolism, focusing on lipid/energy storage in lipid droplets and sphingolipid metabolism in lysosomes.

Radiologist and Nuclear Medicine physician Jan Grimm develops novel approaches for improved diagnosis, monitoring and therapy of prostate and other cancers.

The Hadjantonakis laboratory studies pluripotency and cell fate specification, tissue patterning and morphogenesis, in mammalian embryos and stem cell-derived embryo models.

Biomedical engineer Daniel Heller is Head of the Cancer Nanotechnology Laboratory, which invents disruptive technologies to revolutionize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and allied diseases.

Cancer immunologist Alan Houghton studies the immune response to cancer, immune recognition of self and mutated molecules, and development of new immunotherapies.

Radiologist Hedvig Hricak researches methodologies of molecular imaging of prostate and gynecologic tumors.

Medical physicist John Humm focuses on noninvasive imaging of the tumor microenvironment using nuclear imaging methods.