Department of Medicine - Surgery - University of Minnesota
Department of Medicine - Surgery - University of Minnesota
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Division <strong>of</strong> Hematology, Oncology, and Transplantation56FacultyPr<strong>of</strong>essorsRobert P. Hebbel, M.D.Robert Howe, M.D.Harry Jacob, M.D. (Emeritus)Gerhard J. Johnson, M.D. (VAMC)Nigel Key, M.D., Ch.B., FRCPDavid Kiang, M.D. (Emeritus)Sharon Luikart, M.D. (VAMC)Philip B. McGlave, M.D.Jeffrey Miller, M.D.Bruce Peterson, M.D.Keith Skubitz, M.D.Gregory Vercellotti, M.D.Catherine Verfaillie, M.D.Daniel Weisdorf, M.D.Douglas Yee, M.D.Mimi Yu, Ph.D.Associate Pr<strong>of</strong>essorsMichael Belzer, M.D. (HCMC)Linda Burns, M.D.Edward Greeno, M.D.Pankaj Gupta, MBBS (VAMC)Dale Hammerschmidt, M.D., FACPSagarika Kanjilal, Ph.D.Rudolph Keimowitz, M.D.Robert Kratzke, M.D.Carol Lange, Ph.D.Vicki Morrison, M.D. (VAMC)Robert Perri, M.D. (VAMC)Anna Schorer, M.D. (VAMC)Arne Slungaard, M.D.Assistant Pr<strong>of</strong>essorsDaniel M. Anderson, M.D., M.P.H. (Regions)Mukta Arora, M.D.Aneel Ashrani, MBBSJuliet Barker, MBBS, FRACPClaudio Brunstein, M.D., Ph.D.Arkadiusz Dudek, M.D., Ph.D.Faris Farassati, Ph.D., Pharm.D.Patrick Gaffney, M.D.Jian-Guo Geng, M.D., Ph.D.Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D.Randolph Hurley, M.D. (Regions)Koho Iizuka, M.D.Jeffrry Jaffe, M.D. (Regions)Balkrishna Jahagirdar, MBBS (VAMC)Yuehua Jiang, M.D.Raj Kasthuri, M.D.Dan Kaufman, M.D., Ph.D.Susan Keirstead, Ph.D.Nobuaki Kikyo, M.D., Ph.D.Rachel Lerner, M.D. (HCMC)Colleen Morton, M.D. (Regions)Amy Harker-Murray, M.D. (Regions)(Continued on page 57)scheduled seminars held onthree mornings each week formedical students and house<strong>of</strong>ficers. Special courses forHematology, Oncology, andTransplantation fellows onthe <strong>University</strong> campus includeGrand Rounds and JournalClub (led by Arne Slungaard,M.D. and Nasfat Shehadeh,M.D.) and the GaribaldiResearch Conference (led byRobert Hebbel, M.D.). The HOTDivision also conducts a threeweeksummer workshop forfellows in fundamentals <strong>of</strong> laboratoryand clinical research(led by Kalpna Gupta, Ph.D.).Research ActivitiesThe HOT Division is heavilyengaged in funded laboratoryand clinical research. Researchis supported by the NIH andother national organizations,by pharmaceutical companies,by nonpr<strong>of</strong>it philanthropicorganizations such as theMasonic Cancer ResearchFund, Inc., the Komen Foundation,the Children’s CancerResearch Fund, and by a variety<strong>of</strong> generous individualdonations.<strong>University</strong>-based faculty serveas principal investigators onover 30 national grants withtotal annual direct funding <strong>of</strong>over $12.5 million and a largenumber <strong>of</strong> industry-sponsoredprojects with total annualfunding <strong>of</strong> over $4 million.VAMC faculty conductadditional research projectsgenerating over $1 million inannual funding.Research interests includebreast cancer biology(K. Gupta, Lange, Yee);thoracic oncology (Kratzke);stem cell biology (Jahagirdar,Kaufman, Kikyo, Luikart,McGlave, Verfaillie);immunotherapy (Iizuka,Miller); vascular biology(Geng, K. Gupta, Hebbel,Vercellotti); hemostasis andthrombosis (Ashrani, Geng,Johnson, Kasthuri, Key,Morton, Reding, Slungaard);genetic polymorphisms(Gaffney); tumor suppressorgenes (Kratzke); genetransfer (Farassati); clinicalhematopoietic stem celltransplantation (Arora,Brunstein, Burns, Kaufman,McGlave, Slungaard, Tomblyn,Weisdorf); hematologicmalignancies (Anderson,P. Gupta, Howe, Morton,Peterson); innovative cancertherapy (Dudek, Greeno,Sahin, Shehadeh, Skubitz);cell sorting (Perri); infectionsin immunocompromisedpatients (Morrison); ethicalconduct <strong>of</strong> clinical trials(Hammerschmidt); medicaleducation (Schorer); andmolecular epidemiology <strong>of</strong>cancer (Yu). Faculty serveas principal investigatorson four NIH programmaticgrants on topics <strong>of</strong> sicklecell anemia (Hebbel); naturalkiller cell biology (Miller);stem cell biology (Verfaillie);and hematopoietic stem cellbiology (McGlave). Severalfaculty have leadership rolesin national research consortiastudying oncology therapy(Peterson) and stem celltransplant (Weisdorf).Over the last several years,HOT Division faculty haveestablished and led severalinterdepartmental researchprograms including the StemCell Institute (Verfaillie); theHemostasis and Thrombosisprogram (Key); the VascularBiology program (Hebbel);the Breast Cancer Biologyprogram (Yee); and the AdultBlood and Marrow Transplantationprogram (Weisdorf).HOT Division faculty(McGlave, Miller, Yee, Yu) alsohold leadership positions inthe <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Minnesota</strong>Cancer Center.Masonic ClinicThe Masonic Clinic for cancerand blood disorders has beenestablished in renovatedspace on the first floor <strong>of</strong> theMasonic Hospital Building.
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