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 2009

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.

David L. Bain PhD
Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors and Computational Molecular Biology

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

E. David Crawford PhD
Prostate Cancer

Robert Dellavalle MD PhD MSPH
Prevention and Control

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

Min Han PhD 
Genetics, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology

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

Kenneth A. Iczkowski MD
Tumor progression, invasion and metastasis

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

Arnold Levinson PhD
Prevention and Control

Jennifer M. Martin PhD
Tumor virology, B cell signaling

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

J. David Port PhD
Cell Growth, Death and Senescence, Signaling Pathways, and Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes, Gene Regulation and Transcription Factors

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

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

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

Margaret Wierman MD
Pituitary tumorigensis

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

UCCC Student Cancer Research Fellowship Program

Marileila Varella Garcia, PhD
Program Director

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

303-724-3174
303-724-3163 fax

Mailing Address

University of Colorado Cancer Center
Grants & Education Office
PO Box  6508,  Mailstop F434
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