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Ramin Shiekhattar PhD

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Dr. Shiekhattar serves as the Cancer Epigenetics Program Co-Leader at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center. His own laboratory has been interested in understanding the mechanisms by which protein-cod

Yanbin Zhang PhD

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Dr. Zhang is a professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He is interested in understanding the causes of genome instability and ho

Stephen Lee PhD

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The laboratory studies mechanisms involved in the cellular adaptation to the adverse environmental conditions commonly found within the tumor microenvironment (hypoxia and extracellular acidosis). The

Wael ElRifai MD PhD

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Dr. Wael El-Rifai is a Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine, as well as the Associate Director of Basic Science and Co-Leader of the T

Sandra Merscher PhD

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Dr. Merscher obtained her Ph.D. degree in Human Genetics from the University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. For her postdoctoral fellowship, she joined Dr. Raju Kucherlapati’s Laboratory in the De

Stephan Christoph Schuerer

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Dr. Schürer studied chemistry at Humboldt University of Berlin and University of California Berkeley. Following his PhD from the Technical University Berlin, he built and directed the international op

Tasuku Akiyama

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Tasuku Akiyama, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Dr. Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He obtained his Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Toy