Student Cancer Research Fellowship Projects and Preceptors
When you apply to be a Student Cancer Research Fellow, you select three projects you would like to work on during your fellowship and note them on your Application Form. We make every effort to assign you to your first choice, but we may need to make alternative assignments based on preceptor availability.
Projects are located in the Denver-metro area, unless otherwise noted on the preceptor's page.
Available Projects in 2010
Each preceptor name below links to a description of the project, where the work is done, position prerequisites, number of openings and a project summary. Click on the Preceptor's name for more information.
David L. Bain PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors and Computational Molecular Biology
Al Barqawi MD
Urologic Oncology
Lynne Bemis PhD
MicroRNAs in Cancer Biology and MicroRNAs as Cancer Biomarkers
Virginia Borges MD
Medical Oncology, Breast Cancer
Paul Bunn, Jr. MD and Barb Helfrich MSc
Cell Growth, Death and Senescence, Signaling Pathways and Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics
Daniel Chan PhD
Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics, Cell Growth, Death and Senescence, Signaling Pathways, Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors, Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis, Cellular and Tumor Microenvironment, and Cancer Chemistry
Lori Crane PhD MPH
Cancer prevention and control, social support and health, behavioral intervention research, primary care health
E. David Crawford PhD
Prostate Cancer
Robert Dellavalle MD PhD MSPH
Prevention and Control
Robert C. Doebele MD PhD
Lung Cancer Biology
Gail Eckhardt MD
Developmental Therapeutics, Medical Oncology
Mehdi Fini PhD
Pulmonary Medicine, Medical Oncology, Aging and Cancer
Thomas Flaig, MD
Medical Oncology
Nicholas Foreman MD
Translational Research - Molecular Biology in the Clinic
Wilbur A. Franklin MD
Translational Research
Barbara Frederick PhD
Gene Regulation, Signaling Pathways
Mayumi Fujita MD PhD
Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis and Cellular and Tumor Microenvironment
Marileila Varella Garcia PhD
Cancer cytogenetics
Michael Glode MD
Clinical Prostate Cancer
James Hagman PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors
Lynn Heasley PhD
Signal pathways mediating autocrine growth of cancer cells
Cheng J. Hu PhD
Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis and Cellular and Tumor Microenvironment
Twila Jackson PhD
Basic Reproductive Sciences
Madeleine A. Kane MD PhD
Site-Specific Clinical Research
Mike Klymkowsky PhD
Cell signaling, morphology, apoptotic regulation, and cellular differentiation
Tad H Koch PhD
Experimental and molecular therapeutics
Hari Koul MSc PhD
MAP kinase signal transduction pathways
Laurel Lenz PhD
Cell growth, death and senescence, signaling pathways
Bolin Liu MD
Breast Cancer Biology
Xuedong Liu PhD
Cancer Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Stephen Malkoski MD PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressors, Tumor Development and Progression
Susan Majka PhD
Stem Cell Biology
Sandy Martin PhD
Cell and Developmental Biology, L1-encoded proteins
Jac Nickoloff PhD
Cancer Biology and Molecular Genetics
David Norris MD
Cell Growth, Death and Senescence, Signaling Pathways, and Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors, Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis, and Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics
Scott Oliver MD
Eye Cancer
Christopher Porter MD
Pediatric Oncology
Jane Reusch MD
To clarify the signaling mechanisms responsible for abnormal gene regulation secondary to metabolic stress and the contribution to cancer and diabetic complications
Jennifer Richer PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors, Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis and Cellular and Tumor Microenvironment
Jerome Schaack PhD
Adenovirus gene therapy vector behavior
Pepper Schedin PhD
Developmental Oncobiology and Cellular and Tumor Microenvironment
Natalie Serkova PhD
Oncologic Imaging
Yiqun Shellman PhD
Cell Growth, Death and Senescence, Signaling Pathways, and Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors, Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis, and Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics
Brad Stith PhD
Measurement of lipase activation and lipid mass by HPLC and MS, and Lipid signaling during development: lipid binding and activation of tyrosine kinases (Src) during cell division, calcium release (IP3 system) and fertilization
Tin Tin Su PhD
Drosophila Genetics, Cell Biology and damage responses
Jessica Tyler PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors and Computational Molecular Biology and Cell Cycle, DNA Damage and Repair
Linda F. Van Dyk PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors, Cell Cycle, DNA Damage and Repair, and Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis
Xiao-Jing Wang MD PhD
Biology of cancer development and treatment
Allen Waziri MD
Brain Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy
Margaret Wierman MD
Pituitary tumorigensis
Mark Winey PhD
Cell Biology, Basal bodies, Microtugule Organizing Centers
Virginia Winn MD PhD
Human placement development, cytotrophoblast invasion, leptin actions on cell mitigation and invasion
Tom Wolkow PhD
Cell Cycle, DNA Damage and Repair
Hubert Yin PhD
Growth, Death and Senescence, Signaling Pathways, Computational Molecular Biology, Cancer Chemistry, Experimental and Molecular Therapeutics
Rui Zhao PhD
Molecular Oncology