Colditz

Dr. Colditz is an Epidemiologist and Associate Director for Prevention and Control at the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri. He is the Niess-Gain Family Professor in Medicine, Department of Surgery, at Washington ...

Katherine Jahnige Mathews

An estimated 72 million Americans are either uninsured or underinsured, making their access to health care precarious. Additionally, wide disparities in heath care are pervasive. Mathews works on the frontlines to provide healthcare to uninsured and underinsured patients. She has developed community-based ...

DeBaun

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Dr. DeBaun is a professor of pediatrics, biostatistics and neurology and directs the Sickle Cell Medical Treatment and Education Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital. He is board-certified in pediatrics and pediatric hematology/oncology. He received a MPH in epidemiology from The Johns Hopkins University ...

DiPersio helped pioneer stem cell transplants and now focuses his research efforts on improving the success of bone marrow and stem cell transplants for the treatment of cancer and disorders of the blood. He is investigating the use of gene therapy to control graft versus host disease that is a main ...

Dione Farria is Co-Director for the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) and an assistant professor of Radiology, Division of Diagnostic Radiology, Section of Breast Imaging. She is certified by the American Board of Radiology and American Board of ...

The Goodfellow laboratory is investigating the genetic alterations that underlie development of uterine endometrial cancers. Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecologic malignancy in the United States. Like many cancers, uterine endometrial cancers are hormonally- responsive tumors. The genetic ...

Grigsby is an expert in the detection, diagnosis and treatment of gynecological and thyroid cancers.

Gutmann is the founder and director of the Neurofibromatosis Clinical Program, which is dedicated to treating the common inherited tumor predisposition syndrome, neurofibromatosis (NF). Individuals with NF have an increased risk of developing brain tumors and other cancers. As national leader in the ...

Matt Kreuter is a leading national public health expert in the field of health communications.

As co-director, with her colleague Dione Farria, M.D., of the Program for the Elimination of Cancer Disparities (PECaD) at the Siteman Cancer Center, Mathews has coordinated efforts to promote breast health in the St. Louis area. Drawing together partners in Siteman and the local region, she helps ...

There is a high degree of variation in patient response to medicines. The McLeod laboratory uses genetic tools to perform in vitro, ex vivo, and clinical evaluations to discover, validate, and apply molecular predictors of therapeutic outcome. This includes candidate gene and genome-wide human association ...

Michalski is an associate professor of radiation oncology and an oncologist specializing in genitourinary and pediatric oncologist. He conducts clinical research on the use of radiation therapy for treatment of prostate and other cancers.

Moley is chief of endocrine and oncologic surgery at the School of Medicine and associate chief of surgery at the St. Louis Veteran's Administration Hospital. He is a world authority on endocrine surgery and endocrine cancers. Moley is especially known for his work on a hereditary cancer known as multiple ...

Monsees

The chief of the breast imaging section at Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Monsees is a national leader in the field of breast imaging. she is a nationally known advocate of early detection of breast cancer through mammography and of affordable, accessible and high-quality breast imaging services. ...

Piwnica-Worms' laboratory is interested in how the human cell division cycle is regulated and how perturbations in cell cycle control contribute to human cancer. The cell division cycle is a series of temporally regulated events with each event being dependent upon the proper execution of the preceding ...

A gynecological surgeon and oncologist, Rader also conducts research on genetic and other factors that increase the risk of developing gynecological cancers. She also investigates therapies for treatment of gynecological cancer.

Roti Roti conducts research on the role of the cell nucleus in the tumor cell's response to ionizing radiation and heat, two therapeutic modalities used most often by radiation oncologists.

Our research is aimed at elucidating the molecular cell biology of cytokine receptor signaling and in defining the effects of signaling dysfunction on tumor development. Towards these ends, we are studying the receptors for interferon-gamma (IFNg) and interleukin-10 (IL-10), two related yet distinct ...

Siegel is a faculty member of the Division of Nuclear Medicine at the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology. He is an expert in the use of metabolic tracers and PET (Positron Emission Tomography) scans to detect and analyze tumors. The techniques he and others have developed help physicians distinguish ...

John Steven Taylor

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Taylor is a chemist who has developed an alternative to chemotherapy that relies on using sequences of mutated human DNA as a trigger to release a drug. The sequence is not used as a target, rather as a trigger to cause the catalytic release of a drug. Taylor, a synthetic organic chemist, says the ...