TRAINING IN AREAS FUNDAMENTAL TO CANCER RESEARCH  

Research training of PhD students and postdoctoral fellows in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has been supported by a training grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute since 1975.

Since its inception, the goal of this program has been to train the next generation of successful independent scientists and give them the knowledge, research training and leadership skills necessary to foster progress in the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer. Trainees are treated as integral partners in the research and educational missions of the program and in the preparation for research careers of their choice.

Beginning as a relatively small training program in 1975 with eight faculty preceptors, the program has grown to include nearly 40 faculty preceptors from over a dozen departments across both the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) and the School of Medicine (SOM). Current faculty preceptors and areas of research interest include:

Signaling, gene regulation and cancer

Michael Caterina (SOM) | Jennifer Kavran (BSPH) | Ken Pienta (SOM) | Joel Pomerantz (SOM) | Dipali Sharma (SOM)

Genome integrity and cancer:

Scott Bailey (BSPH) | James Berger (SOM) | Robert Casero (SOM) | Marikki Laiho (SOM) | Alan Meeker (SOM) | Jim Stivers (SOM) | Victor Velculescu (SOM)

Inflammation and cancer:

Cynthia Sears (SOM) | Fengyi Wan (BSPH)

Cellular stress response pathways and cancer:

Valeria Culotta (BSPH) | Anthony Leung (BSPH) | Jiou Wang (BSPH) | Michael Matunis (BSPH)

Cellular morphogenesis and cancer:

Andrew Ewald (SOM)

Chemoprevention and cancer:

Jun Liu (SOM)