Ohio Cancer Research’s scientific investigators are exploring innovative areas of cancer research in the genetic causes and preventions of cancer, skin cancer, stomach cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, liver cancer, kidney cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, vaccine studies, DNA studies, and new therapeutic strategies.
Projects are selected by a Scientific Review Committee with the help of out- of-state reviewers from across the country and the world.
The Scientific Review Committee is comprised of doctors and scientists around the state. Committee Chair Susan Cole, PhD, The Ohio State University, heads this distinguished panel of researchers and cancer experts in 2017:
SCIENTIFIC REVIEW COMMITTEE
Susan Cole, PhD, Chair
Professor, Cancer and Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics, The Ohio State University
Ivana de la Serna, PhD
Associate Professor
Biochemistry & Cancer Biology, University of Toledo
Sohaib Khan, PhD
Associate Professor
Professor of Cell Biology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
Justin Lathia, PhD
Associate Staff
Cellular & Molecular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
Kam Yeung, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, University of Toledo
Deborah Paris, PhD
Professor Emeritus
The Ohio State University
John Pink, PhD
Assistant Professor
General Medical Sciences Oncology, Case Western Reserve University
Dawn Wooley, PhD
Associate Professor, Neuroscience Cell
Biology & Physiology, Wright State University
Ana Luisa Kadekaro, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dermatology, University of Cincinnati