Cancer Programs and Labs
Research at the Knight Cancer Institute includes dozens of units. Some units are listed in more than one category.
Units we work with
Here are some of the units our researchers work with regularly.
- Biofabrication Hub
- Biomedical Engineering
- Center to Improve Veteran Involvement in Care (CIVIC)
- Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology
- Childhood Cancer
- Dermatology
- GI Oncology
- Imaging Research
- Nuclear Medicine
- Oncological Sciences
- Oregon Rural Practice-Based Research Network
- Population Science
- Stem Cell Center
- Surgical Oncology
- Symptom Science
- Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute
Labs and groups
Here is a list of notable labs and groups with ties to the Knight. Labs and groups may be listed in more than one category.
Biomedical engineering
- Biomedical Engineering
- Gibbs Lab
- Korkola Lab
- Ellrott Lab
- Energy-Responsive Biomaterials Group (Schutt Ibsen Lab)
- Quantitative Bioimaging Lab (Young Hwan Chang)
- Galbraith Lab
- Xia Lab
- Yantasee Lab
Childhood cancer
- Childhood Cancer
- Chang Lab (Bill Chang)
- Cho Lab
- Davare Lab
- Roberts Lab
- Vaseva Lab
Early detection
- CEDAR (Cancer Early Detection Advanced Research)
- Cancer Nanobiology Group (Riesterer McQuiston)
- Cellular Signaling Group (Davies)
- Chromatin Group (Yardimci)
- Epigenetics Group (Braun)
- Extracellular Biomarkers Group (Ngo)
- Energy-Responsive Biomaterials Group (Schutt Ibsen)
- Fibroblasts Group (Langer)
- Fluorescence Microscopy Group (Speese)
- Genetics and Transcriptional Regulation Group (Mohammed)
- Nuclear Processes Group (Saldivar)
- PDAC Biomarkers Group (Ibsen)
- Proteomics Group (Flory)
- T-cell Subsets Group (Duhen)
- Translational Nanomaterials Group (Yildirim)
Cancer biology
- Cancer Biology
- Anand Lab
- Agarwal Lab
- Andres Lab
- Beer and Qian Lab
- Brody Lab
- Burger Lab
- Byrne Lab
- Coussens Lab
- Enns Lab
- Goodman Lab
- Grompe Lab
- Heiser Lab
- Hornick Lab
- Kulkarni Lab
- Lloyd and McCullough Lab
- Maxson Lab
- Moran Lab
- Nechiporuk Lab
- Oshimori Lab
- Ruhland Lab
- Schedin Lab
- Shannon Lab
- Thuillier Lab
- Tyner Lab
- Vaseva Lab
- Walker Lab
- Wong Lab
- Xiao Lab
- Yantasee Lab
- Zimmers Lab
Prevention and control
Quantitative oncology
- Quantitative Oncology
- Adey Lab
- Baker Lab
- Barklis Lab
- Beatty Lab
- Carbone Lab
- Quantitative Bioimaging Lab (Young Hwan Chang)
- Proteomics Shared Resource Lab
- Ellrott Lab
- Emili Lab
- Galbraith Lab
- Gibbs Lab
- Gray Lab
- Integrated Genomics Lab
- Heiser Lab
- Huang Lab
- McWeeney Lab
- Nan Lab
- Nanobiotechnology and Cell Molecular Imaging (Vu Lab)
- Xia Lab
- Yantasee Lab
Translational oncology
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