Knight Cancer Institute Members | Knight Cancer Institute

The research membership of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute is composed of researchers, scientists and clinicians working together to provide world-class patient care and groundbreaking research to reduce the morbidity and mortality of cancer.

View members below or by program affiliation:

- Andrew C. Adey, Ph.D.
- Adey Lab
- Anupriya Agarwal, Ph.D.
- Agarwal Lab
- Christopher Amling, M.D., F.A.C.S
- John C. Barry Chair of Urology
- Sudarshan Anand, Ph.D.
- Anand Lab
- Sarah Andres, Ph.D.
- Andres Lab
- Ramon Barajas, M.D.
- Neuroradiologist
- Neuroradiology
- Eric Barklis, Ph.D.
- Barklis Lab
- Shelley Barton, Ph.D.
- Kimberly E. Beatty, Ph.D.
- The Beatty Lab
- Elizabeth Berry, M.D. (she/her)
- Luiz Eduardo Bertassoni, D.D.S., Ph.D.
- Bertassoni Lab
- Charles D. Blanke, M.D., F.A.C.P., F.A.S.C.O.
- Professor of Medicine, Knight Cancer Institute; Chair, SWOG
- Ted Braun, M.D., Ph.D.
- Braun Lab
- Jonathan R. Brody, Ph.D.
- Brody Lab
- Amanda Bruegl, M.D. (she/her)
- David I. Buckley, M.D., M.P.H.
- Megan L. Burger, Ph.D. (she/her)
- Burger Lab
- Katelyn Byrne, Ph.D.
- Byrne Lab
- Lucia Carbone, Ph.D.
- Lab
- Jeremy Paul Cetnar, M.D., MSHPR
- Bill Hoon Chang, M.D., Ph.D.
- Director, Leukemia and Lymphoma Program
- Bill Chang Lab
- Young Hwan Chang, Ph.D. (he/him)
- Chang Lab
- Andy Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
- Emerson Y. Chen, M.D.
- Koei Chin
- Yoon-Jae Cho, M.D.
- Ericksen Family Endowed Professor for Research
- Daniel Robert Clayburgh, M.D., Ph.D., FACS
- Otolaryngologist
- Fergus Coakley, M.B. B.Ch
- Body Imaging Radiologist
- Body Radiology
- Aaron M. Cohen, M.D., M.S. (he/him)
- Michael S. Cohen, Ph.D.
- Cohen Lab
- Rachel J. Cook, M.D., M.S.
- Clinician, Center for Hematologic Malignancies; Site Director, Acute Leukemia
- Gregory A. Coté, M.D., M.S.
- Lisa M. Coussens, Ph.D., FAACR, FAIO
- Coussens Lab
- Seth D. Crockett, M.D., M.P.H.
- Jessica Currier, Ph.D. (she/her)
- MUSHUI DAI, M.D., Ph.D.

- Monika Davare, Ph.D.
- Davare Lab
- Larry David, Ph.D.
- Proteomics Shared Resource Lab
- Alexander Davies, D.V.M, Ph.D.
- Lara E. Davis, M.D.
- Davis Lab
- Melinda M. Davis, Ph.D., M.C.R. (she/her)
- Oregon Rural Practice-based Research Network
- Victor R. DeFilippis, Ph.D.
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
- Thomas G. DeLoughery, M.D., M.A.C.P., FAWM
- Emek Demir
- Amrita Desai, M.D., M.P.H. (she/her)
- Jennifer E. DeVoe, M.D.
- John and Sherrie Saultz Professorship in Family Medicine Innovation
- Yee-Cheen Doung, M.D.
- Brian J. Druker, M.D.
- JELD-WEN Chair of Leukemia Research
- Robert M. Duvoisin, Ph.D.
- Duvoisin Lab
- Karen B. Eden, Ph.D. (she/her)
- Robert L. Eil, M.D.
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Eil Lab
- Diane L. Elliot, M.D.
- Kyle Ellrott, Ph.D.
- Ellrott Lab
- Andrew Emili, Ph.D.
- Caroline Enns, Ph.D
- Enns Lab
- Sadik Esener, Ph.D.
- Guang Fan, M.D., Ph.D. (she/her)
- Professor
- Heidi S. Feiler, Ph.D., M.A.
- OHSU Center for Spatial Systems Biomedicine
- Maros Ferencik, M.D., Ph.D., M.C.R.
- Elizabeth A. Fialkowski, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.A.P.
- Associate Professor of Surgery
- Jenny Lynn Firkins, Ph.D., RN
- Jared Fischer, Ph.D.
- Susan Flocke, Ph.D.
- Klaus Früh, Ph.D.
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
- Rongwei (Rochelle) F. Fu, Ph.D.
- Catherine G. Galbraith, Ph.D.
- Galbraith Lab website
- James A. Galbraith, Ph.D.
- GalbraithLab Homepage
- Arpita Gandhi, M.D., M.S.
- Mark Garzotto, M.D.
- Summer L. Gibbs, Ph.D.
- Gibbs Lab
- Erin W. Gilbert, M.D., M.C.R., FACS
- Associate Professor of Surgery
- Grace B. Gill, Ph.D. (she/her)

- Joe W. Gray, Ph.D.
- Gray Lab
- Kenton W. Gregory
- OHSU Center for Regenerative Medicine
- Markus Grompe, M.D.
- Geneticist
- Grompe Lab
- Aaron Grossberg, M.D., Ph.D.
- Grossberg Lab
- Alexander Guimaraes, M.D., Ph.D., FACR
- Body Imaging Radiologist
- Body Radiology
- Kenneth R. Gundle, M.D.
- Lissi Hansen, Ph.D., RN
- James B. Hayden, M.D., Ph.D.
- Brandon Hayes-Lattin, M.D., FACP
- Medical Director of the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute’s Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Oncology Program
- Michael C. Heinrich, M.D.
- Heinrich Lab
- Laura M. Heiser, Ph.D.
- Heiser Lab
- Noah Hornick, M.D., Ph.D. (he/him)
- Assistant Professor of Dermatology
- Nathalie Huguet, Ph.D.
- Arthur Y. Hung, M.D.
- Stuart Ibsen, Ph.D.
- Jessica Jou, M.D., M.S., FACOG (she/her)
- Stefanie Kaech Petrie, Ph.D.
- Director, Advanced Light Microscopy Core at The Jungers Center
- Advanced Light Microscopy Core at The Jungers Center
- Adel Kardosh, M.D., Ph.D.
- Jungsun Kim, Ph.D.
- Kim research team!
- Aimee Kohn, M.D., Ph.D.
- Dennis R. Koop, Ph.D.
- Bioanalytical Shared Resource / Pharmacokinetics Core
- Ryan Kopp, M.D.
- James E. Korkola, Ph.D.
- Korkola Lab
- Molly F. Kulesz-Martin, Ph.D.
- Kulesz-Martin Lab
- Rajan Kulkarni, Ph.D., M.D. (he/him)
- Kulkarni Lab
- Shivaani Kummar, M.D., FACP
- Margaret and Lester DeArmond University Chair of Molecular Oncology
- Ellen Langer, Ph.D. (she/her)
- Sancy Leachman, M.D., Ph.D. (she/her)
- John D. Gray Endowed Chair for Melanoma Research
- Leachman/Cassidy Lab
- Peter Lee, M.D., M.H.S. (he/him)
- Jessica Leonard, M.D.
- Bingbing Li, M.D., Ph.D.
- Ryan J. Li, M.D., M.B.A.
- Chief, Division of Head and Neck Surgery
- Evan F. Lind, Ph.D.

- Jen-Jane Liu, M.D.
- Yuangang Liu, Ph.D.
- Kulesz-Martin Lab
- R. Stephen Lloyd, Ph.D.
- Lloyd McCullough Laboratory
- Charles D. Lopez, M.D., Ph.D.
- Claudia S. López, Ph.D.
- Marc M. Loriaux, M.D., Ph.D.
- Shiuh-Wen Luoh, M.D., Ph.D.
- Patrick Lyons, M.D.
- Sanjay Malhotra, Ph.D.
- Center for Experimental Therapeutics
- Nadine Mallak, M.D. (she/her)
- Nuclear Medicine and Body Radiologist
- Molecular Imaging and Therapy
- Julia Maxson, PhD
- Maxson Lab
- Skye C. Mayo, M.D., M.P.H., FACS
- Associate Professor of Surgery
- Multidisciplinary GI Oncology Research Group
- Richard T. Maziarz, M.D.
- Owen J.T. McCarty, Ph.D., FAHA
- Cardiovascular Engineering
- Amanda K. McCullough, Ph.D.
- Lloyd and McCullough Lab
- Shannon McWeeney, Ph.D.
- Eva Medvedova, M.D.
- Gabrielle Meyers, M.D.
- Gordon Mills, M.D.,Ph.D.
- Wayne and Julie Drinkward Endowed Chair in Precision Oncology
- SMMART Clinical Trials
- Jessica Minnier, Ph.D
- Timur Mitin, M.D., Ph.D.
- Erik S. Mittra, M.D., Ph.D.
- Nuclear Medicine Physician
- Molecular Imaging and Therapy
- Hisham Mohammed, Ph.D.
- Amy Moran, Ph.D.
- Moran Lab
- Joshua Moreau, Ph.D. (he/him)
- Moreau Lab
- Terry Morgan, M.D., Ph.D.
- Catherine W. Morgans, Ph.D.
- Cynthia Morris, Ph.D., M.P.H.
- Ashlee Vivien Moses, Ph.D.
- Michael W. Munks
- John L. Muschler, Ph.D.
- Gray Lab
- Nima Nabavizadeh, M.D.
- Radiation Oncologist
- OHSU Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research Center (CEDAR)
- Arpana M. Naik, M.D., F.A.C.S.
- Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
- Xiaolin Nan, Ph.D.
- Nan Lab
- Willscott Naugler, M.D.
- Alex Nechiporuk, Ph.D.
- Nechiporuk Lab

- Eneida R. Nemecek, M.D., M.S., M.B.A.
- Nancy Jaggar Blount Endowed Professor of Pediatrics & Medical Oncology; Director, Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program, Doernbecher Children’s Hospital; Associate Director of Clinical Research, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
- Laura Newell, MD
- Assistant Professor, Knight Cancer Institute
- Thuy Ngo, Ph.D.
- The Ngo Lab
- Olga Nikolova, Ph.D.
- Jeffrey C. Nolz, Ph.D.
- Nolz Lab
- Shannon Nugent, Ph.D.
- Craig Okada, M.D.
- Alex Ortega Loayza, M.D., M.C.R.
- Naoki Oshimori, Ph.D.
- Oshimori Lab
- Byung S. Park, Ph.D.
- Bret Pearson, Ph.D.
- Bret Pearson Lab
- Guillaume Pegna, M.D.
- Cindy Perry, Ph.D., FNP-BC, FAHA
- Martin M. Pike, Ph.D.
- Advanced Imaging Research Center
- Rodney F. Pommier, M.D., FACS, FSSO
- Professor of Surgery
- SuEllen Pommier, Ph.D.
- Department of Surgery Oncology Lab
- Richard D. Press, M.D., Ph.D.
- David Z. Qian, Ph.D.
- Qian Lab
- Jacob Raber, Ph.D.
- Raber Lab
- Jennifer Raybin, Ph.D., RN, CPNP
- Stephen Roberts, M.D. (he/him)
- Robert C. Neerhout Chair of Pediatric Oncology, Division Head, Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- Flavio G. Rocha, M.D., FACS, FSSO
- Professor and Division Head of Surgical Oncology; Physician-in-Chief of Knight Cancer Institute, Hugh Hedinger and Georgeina Hedinger Chair of Surgical Oncology
- Eric Roeland, M.D., FAAHPM, FASCO (he/him)
- OHSU Knight Cancer Insititute Symptom Science
- Donald A. Ross, M.D.
- Megan Ruhland, Ph.D.
- Ruhland Lab
- Christopher W. Ryan, M.D.
- Joshua Saldivar, Ph.D.
- Saldivar lab
- Jennifer Saultz, D.O.
- Thomas S. Scanlan, Ph.D.
- Pepper J. Schedin, Ph.D.
- Schedin Lab
- Robert P. Searles, Ph.D.
- Integrated Genomics Laboratory
- Rosalie C. Sears, Ph.D.
- Olga Senashova, M.D.
- Endocrinologist
- Jackilen Shannon, Ph.D. (she/her)
- Joseph Shatzel, M.D., M.C.R.

- Brett C. Sheppard, M.D., FACS
- William E. Colson Chair of Pancreatic Disease Research
- Brenden-Colson Center for Pancreatic Care
- Evan B. Shereck, M.D., M.Ed.
- Larry David, Ph.D.
- Proteomics Shared Resource Lab
- Tanaya Shree, M.D., Ph.D. (she/her)
- Alison Skalet, M.D., Ph.D., FACS
- Paul H. Casey Chair in Ocular Oncology
- Christopher G. Slatore, M.D., M.S.
- Divya Sood, M.D.
- Eliot Spindel, M.D., Ph.D.
- Stephen E.F. Spurgeon, M.D.
- Distinguished Scholar of Leukemia and Lymphoma Research
- Anne Stone, M.D.
- Linda C. Stork, M.D.
- Daniel N. Streblow, Ph.D.
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
- Andrea M. Stroud, M.D., M.S.
- Assistant Professor of Surgery; Attending/Consultant at Adventist Health Portland
- Donald Sullivan, M.D.
- Associate professor
- Ronan Swords, MD., Ph.D., FRCPI, FRCPath
- Research Highlight
- Mathew Thayer, Ph.D.
- George V. Thomas, M.D.
- Molly Thomas, M.D., Ph.D. (she/her)
- Reid F. Thompson, M.D., Ph.D. (he/him)
- Philippe Thuillier, Ph.D.
- Deanne Tibbitts, Ph.D., M.C.R. (she/her)
- Elie Traer, M.D., Ph.D.
- V. Liana Tsikitis, M.D., M.B.A., M.C.R., FACS, FASCRS (she/her)
- Professor and Division Head of Gastrointestinal and General Surgery
- Multidisciplinary Colorectal Cancer Research Team
- Shelley Tworoger, Ph.D.
- Jeffrey W. Tyner, Ph.D.
- Tyner Lab
- Cristian D. Valenzuela, M.D.
- John T. Vetto, M.D., FACS, FASA
- Professor of Surgery
- Tania Q. Vu, Ph.D.
- Vu Nanobiotechnology and Cell Molecular Imaging Laboratory
- Jacqueline Vuky, M.D.
- Josh Walker, M.D., Ph.D.
- Walker Lab
- Lei G. Wang, Ph.D.
- Kevin Watanabe-Smith, Ph.D.
- Mark K. Wax, M.D., FACS, FRCS
- Director of the Residency Program and Director of Facial Plastic and Microvascular Reconstruction Fellowship Program
- Jason Allen Webb, M.D., DFAPA, FAAHPM, FACP (he/him)
- Section Chief, Palliative Care
- Wei Huang, Ph.D.
- AIRC Huang Lab, Advanced Imaging Research Center
- Kerri Winters-Stone, Ph.D.
- Cancer Survivorship Research

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