Department of Oncology
Biography Education BA, 1985, Genetics, University of California at Berkeley PhD, 1991, Physiology, University of California at Berkeley Postdoctoral Research, University of California-San Francisco and University of California-San Diego Research Description Figure 1: Model of a “Transcriptional Clock” The focus of our research is on understanding the molecular mechanisms governing the activity of estrogen receptor …
Biography Richard “Dick” Burgess received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Caltech in 1964, and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with Dr. James D. Watson at Harvard University in 1969. After two years as a postdoctoral fellow in Geneva, Switzerland, he joined the faculty of the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research at the …
Biography Education BS, 1988, Biology and Chemistry, University of Iowa PhD, 1994, Biochemistry, Michigan State University Postdoctoral Research, University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Description Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. These cancers, like most cancers, are often heterogeneous with abnormal cells within a single tumor varying in several …
Biography Research Description For my first sixteen years on the faculty at UW (1984-2000), I used Drosophila genetics to study two highly conserved genes, the Abl proto-oncogene and a TGF-beta superfamily member growth factor, Dpp. Beginning in 2000, I transitioned my research from classical genetics to chemical genetic approaches. Over the past seventeen years my …
Biography Education BS, 1981, Biochemistry, Pennsylvania State University PhD, 1988, Microbiology and Immunology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Postdoctoral Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of California, San Francisco Research Description Hepatitis B viruses (HBV) are a family of DNA viruses that can persistently infect the liver of a …
Biography Education BS, BS, 1970, Life Sciences/Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD, 1975, Biochemistry, Stanford University Postdoctoral Research, Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, England Research Description Our group’s primary interest involves regulation of gene expression and mechanisms of oncogenesis by DNA tumor viruses implicated in a variety of human cancers. We …
Biography Education BS, 1975, Zoology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln MS, 1977, Microbiology and Immunology, University of Nebraska-Lincoln PhD, 1984, Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison Postdoctoral Research, Oncology, University of Wisconsin-Madison Research Description Estrogens are inextricably implicated in the etiology of breast cancer. The primary goals of our research group are to utilize the ACI rat model of …