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

UCCC Student Cancer Research Fellowship Program

Marileila Varella Garcia, PhD
Program Director

Jill Penafiel
Program Coordinator
Univ. of Colorado Cancer Center
jill.penafiel@ucdenver.edu

303-724-3174 phone
303-724-3163 fax

Mailing Address

Univ. of Colorado Cancer Center
Mailstop F434
13001 E. 17th Place
Aurora, CO 80045

Delivery Location

Anschutz Medical Campus
Building 500, 6th Floor
13001 E. 17th Place
Aurora, CO 80045

Office Hours

Monday-Friday
8:30 am to 5:00pm