2010 Annual Report - Cancer Research Center

A lison Fea
is the Senior Technician
and Laboratory
Manager of CRC. A
New Jersey native, she
attended Stephens College
in Columbia prior
to joining the CRC in
2002. During her time
as an undergraduate, she
served as the Chemistry
Laboratory Assistant for
the college’s Natural
Science Department
and served as an officer
in several honor societies. The summer of her
junior year she was elected to Sigma Xi, the Scientific
Research Society, for her HIV-1 research work when
she was an infectious disease intern in Galveston, TX.
She graduated Magna Cum Lade from Stephens in
2002, with a BS in Biology and a minor in Chemistry.
She is the eldest of three; her family now resides in
Lawrence,KS.
J acki Kian Mehr
was born and raised in
Jefferson City, MO. She
is the youngest of six
children. Jacki attended
Jefferson City High
School and graduated
in 1984. While in high
school, she worked on a
research project on embryo
transfer. Jacki attended
CMSU and there
she met her husband
of 25 years. They have
four girls ages 24, 22, 9 and 7. Along with being a
homemaker for 19 years, Jacki was an advocate for
the disabled. Since then she has returned to her love
of research at the Cancer Research Center.
Meet the CRC Staff
Dr. Robert A.
Kazmierczak
came to CRC as the
Raymond W. Freese
Fellow. He now serves as
Senior Investigator. He
received his BS in Bacteriology
at the University
of Wisconsin, studying
regulation of Vitamin
B12 production by
Salmonella enterica
(serovar Typhimurium)
and interning at Upjohn
Pharmaceuticals. He earned a MA and PhD in Microbiology
from the University of Illinois, during which
time he held an NIH Cell and Molecular Biology
Training Grant Fellowship to research chronic viral
infections. He later studied at Washington University
in St. Louis. At the CRC he is conducting research
to characterize and develop therapeutic Salmonella
enterica as a treatment for prostate cancer.
D r. C hengzhi Wang
is from China. He
attended Medical School
at Southeast University,
China, and graduated in
2006. Later he turned to
bioscience to pursue his
Ph.D. at Peking University
Health Science Center in
Microbiology since 2007.
In November, 2009,
with the support of the
Chinese government, he
came to America as a visiting
student and joined the
CRC. At the CRC, he is working on the project of therapeutic
Salmonella enterica as a treatment for prostate
cancer along with his colleagues. He is the only son of
his parents and married his wife in Beijing in 2009.
A year in review 2010
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