Department: Medicine

Division: Oncology

• Faculty (41)
• Postdocs (21)
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• 
  Advani, Ranjana 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Burkitt's Lymphoma
  • Burkitt's Lymphoma - Hematology
  • Burkitt's Lymphoma - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Clinical investigation in Hodgkin's disease, non-Hodgkin's Lymphomas and cutaneous lymphomas. Experimental therapeutics with novel chemotherapy and biologically targeted therapies. The research program is highly collaborative with radiation oncology, industry, pathology and dermatology.

• 
  Alizadeh, Arash 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Research Interest

  My research is focused on attaining a better understanding of the initiation, maintenance, and progression of lymphoid tumors, and their response to immunochemotherapy toward improving current treatment strategies. In this effort, I employ tools from functional genomics, computational biology, molecular genetics, and mouse models. I hope to apply this knowledge towards the design of clinical trials in the treatment of patients with lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma.

• 
  Brody, Joshua 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Burkitt's Lymphoma
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Medical Oncology
  • Lymphoma
  Research Interest

  The focus of my research is on ways to design new and improve upon current cancer vaccines. A primary approach is to use vaccination to induce anti-cancer T cells, then adoptively transfer those T cells back into the patient after lymphodepletion, such as with chemotherapy or autologous stem cell transplant. The concept is to thus provide primed immune cells during this lymphodepleted 'window of opportunity' to allow immune reconstitution in a setting that educates it to hate cancer.

• 
  Carlson, Robert 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
  • Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Clinical investigations in breast cancer include institutional and NSABP studies of chemoprevention, adjuvant therapy, psychosocial interventions, treatment of metastatic disease, methods of decreasing anthracycline cardiotoxicity, and modulation of multidrug resistance. Research in meta-analysis includes the performance of meta-analysis in a wide variety of settings in cancer treatment by the international Meta-Analysis Group in Cancer.

• 
  Cho, Cheryl 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Medical Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
• 
  Chu, Gilbert 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Professor, Biochemistry
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Oncology
  Research Interest

  Our laboratory focuses on understanding how cells respond to DNA damage. Our research currently involves areas that interact with each other: repair of radiation damage, and transcriptional responses to DNA damage.

• 
  Clarke, Michael F
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Colorectal Cancer
  • Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
  Research Interest

  Dr. Michael F. Clarke is the Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine. In addition to his clinical duties in the division of Oncology, Dr. Clarke maintains a laboratory focused on two areas of research: i) the control of self-renewal of normal stem cells and their malignant counterparts; and ii) the identification and characterization of cancer stem cells. A central issue in stem cell biology is to understand the mechanisms that regulate self-renewa..

• 
  Colevas, Alexander D
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Medical Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
  • developmental therapeutics
  Research Interest

  Multi- modality treatment of Head and Neck Cancer Phase 1 clinical trials

• 
  Dalerba, Piero 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Research Interest

  Cancer Stem Cells, Colon Cancer

• 
  Fan, Alice 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Medical Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
  Research Interest

  Dr. Fan studies how turning off oncogenes (cancer genes) can cause tumor regression in preclinical and clinical studies. Based on preclinical findings, she has initiated a clinical trial studying atorvastatin for the treatment of patients with certain non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. In the laboratory, she also uses preclinical models of cancer to validate new nanotechnology strategies for tumor diagnosis and treatment.

• 
  Felsher, Dean W
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Associate Professor, Pathology
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Hodgkin's Disease
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Hematology
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  My laboratory investigates how oncogenes initiate and sustain tumorigenesis. I have developed model systems whereby I can conditionally activate oncogenes in normal human and mouse cells in tissue culture or in specific tissues of transgenic mice. In particular using the tetracycline regulatory system, I have generated a conditional model system for MYC-induced tumors. I have shown that cancers caused by the conditional over-expression of the MYC proto-oncogene regress with its inactivation.

• 
  Fisher, George 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Clinical expertise in GI cancers with research which emphasizes Phase I and II clinical trials of novel therapies but also includes translational studies including biomarkers, molecular imaging, tumor immunology and development of immunotherapeutic trials.

• 
  Ford, James 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Associate Professor, Genetics
  • Associate Professor (By courtesy), Pediatrics
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Cancer Genetics
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers - Genetics
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Mammalian DNA repair and DNA damage inducible responses; p53 tumor suppressor gene; transcription in nucleotide excision repair and mutagenesis; genetic determinants of cancer cell sensitivity to DNAdamage; genetics of inherited cancer susceptibility syndromes and human GI malignancies; clinical cancer genetics of BRCA1 and BRCA2 breast cancer and mismatch repair deficient colon cancer.

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Ganjoo, Kristen N
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Hodgkin's Disease
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Hematology
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma; Soft tissue sarcoma; Osteosarcoma.

• 
  Guardino, Alice 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer
  • Medical Oncology
  • Immune Therapy and Vaccines
  Research Interest

  Dr. Guardino has studied the mechanisms by which the immune system recognizes foreign substances like viruses, microorganisms and cancer and the ways the immune system becomes deregulated and attacks “self” as seen in autoimmunity. Her research identified the cellular interactions involved in immune recognition and has led to treatment strategies for cancer using immune therapies and biologic treatments.

• 
  Harshman, Lauren 
  Academic Appointments

  • Acting Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Oncology
  • Genitourinary Cancer
• 
  Horning, Sandra 
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Burkitt's Lymphoma
  • Burkitt's Lymphoma - Hematology
  • Burkitt's Lymphoma - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Clinical Interests: Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Research Interests: clinical trials in Hodgkin's disease and malignant lymphoma including high dose therapy and autografting, complications of cytotoxic therapy, novel therapeutics, and clinicopathologic correlations.

• 
  Humke, Eric 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Research Interest

  My research is comprised of two main projects. I study the Hedgehog signaling pathway which controls cell proliferation, differentiation and patterning in a range of tissues during development. I am interested in the biochemical mechanisms that control the Hh signal transduction cascade. Secondly, I am using a novel, high-throughput magnetic sifter device, to isolate live circulating tumor cells (CTCs) from whole blood to allow for their cell biological analysis.

• 
  Irish, Jonathan 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Research Interest

  I am a PhD research scientist who is passionate about clinical cancer research and the use of advanced technology to improve cancer therapy. My current goal is to combine bioinformatics techniques and immunology research in order to understand why cancer patients' cells resist existing therapies. I am especially interested in the critical choice of the first therapy for the patient. We are currently applying this approach to study signaling in leukemia and lymphoma.

• 
  Jacobs, Charlotte 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Basal / Squamous Cell Carcinomas - Medical Oncology
  • Esophageal Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Clinical Interests: general oncology, sarcomas. Research Interests: clinical trials in solid tumors.

• 
  Ji, Hanlee P
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Medical Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
  • Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
  Research Interest

  Cancer genomics and genetics, translational applications of next generation sequencing technologies, development of molecular signatures as prognostic and predictive biomarkers in oncology, primary genomic and proteomic technology development

• 
  Kim, Youn 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor - Med Center Line, Dermatology
  • Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Cutaneous Lymphoma
  • Cutaneous Lymphoma - Dermatology
  • Dermatology
  Research Interest

  Clinical research in cutaneous lymphomas, especially, mycosis fungoides; studies of prognostic factors, long-term survival results, and effects of therapies. Collaborative research with Departments of Pathology and Oncology in basic mechanisms of cutaneous lymphomas. Clinical trials of new investigative therapies for various dermatologic conditions or clinical trials of known therapies for new indications.

• 
  Kunz, Pamela L
  Academic Appointments

  • Acting Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Esophageal Cancer
  • Gastrointestinal Cancers
  • Neuroendocrine
• 
  Kurian, Allison W
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Health Research & Policy
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Cancer Genetics
  • Medical Oncology
  • Breast Cancer Risk
  Research Interest

  Breast and gynecologic cancer epidemiology, risk assessment, and risk reduction.

• 
  Levy, Ronald 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
  • Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Clinical Interests: lymphoma. Research Interests: Immunology and molecular biology of lymphoid malignancy; molecular vaccines for cancer.

• 
  Levy, Shoshana 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor (Research), Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Bio-X
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Research Interest

  Our research focuses on the mechanism of action of tetraspanins, an evolutionary conserved, widely expressed multi-gene family. We study a prototype, CD81, a molecule implicated in the pathogenesis of two major human diseases: hepatitis C virus (HCV) and malaria.

• 
  Mitchell, Beverly S
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Professor (By courtesy), Chemical and Systems Biology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Hematology
  Research Interest

  Beverly Mitchell's research relates to the development of new therapies for hematologic malignancies. She has a long-standing interest in IMPDH as a therapeutic target and has published extensively on the regulation of this enzyme and the potential role of inhibitors in the treatment of leukemia in preclinical studies.

• 
  Mollick, Joseph A
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Medical Oncology
  • Oncology (Cancer)
• 
  Pachynski, Russell 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Genitourinary Cancer
  • Oncology
• 
  Pinto, Harlan 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line (By courtesy), Otolaryngology (Head and Neck Surgery)
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Esophageal Cancer
  • Esophageal Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Head and Neck Cancers
  Research Interest

  Clinical Interests: general oncology, head and neck cancer Research Interests: chemoprevention trials and combined modality approaches to head and neck cancer

• 
  Reddy, Sunil A
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • lymphoma/melanoma/cutaneouslymphoma
  • Medical Oncology
• 
  Rohatgi, Rajat 
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Assistant Professor (By courtesy), Biochemistry
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Internal Medicine
  Research Interest

  We are working to elucidate the biochemical and cell biological principles that govern signaling pathways that sit at the intersection between developmental biology and cancer. Our toolkit combines bulk biochemical techniques, such as cell-free reconstitution, with microscopy using novel optical probes to study the dynamics of signal propagation in cells. We strive to develop novel strategies for the manipulation of these pathways for cancer therapies and applications in regenerative medicine.

• 
  Rosenberg, Saul 
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Emeritus Faculty, Acad Council, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Hodgkin's Disease
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Hematology
  • Hodgkin's Disease - Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Clinical Interests: Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas Research Interests: clinical trials, clinical-pathological-biological correlations

• 
  Sheth, Shruti 
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Oncology
• 
  Sikic, Branimir 
  Academic Appointments

  • Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Medical Oncology
  • New Drug Studies
  Research Interest

  Research Interests: cancer pharmacology, mechanisms of resistance to anticancer drugs, regulation and function of MDR1 and tubulin genes, clinical trials of modulation of drug resistance, general oncology, Phase I trials of new drugs, gene expression profiling of cancers

• 
  Srinivas, Sandhya 
  Academic Appointments

  • Associate Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Bladder Cancer
  • Bladder Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Germ Cell Tumors
  Research Interest

  Clinical interests: general oncology, genito-urinary malignancy Research interests: conducting clinical trials in advanced prostate cancer, bladder cancer and renal cell carcinoma

• 
  Stockdale, Frank 
  Academic Appointments

  • Emeritus (Active) Professor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Oncology
  • Newly Diagnosed Breast Cancer
  Research Interest

  Laboratory and clinical research in breast cancer ; Normal and abornal differentiation and growth

• 
  Sultan, Aya 
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  • Instructor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
  Clinical Focus

  • Gynecology
  • Obstetrics and Gynecology
  Research Interest

  Ovarian cancer Endometriosis Cell Signal transduction

  Practices at Stanford Hospital and Clinics and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
• 
  Telli, Melinda S
  Academic Appointments

  • Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Breast Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Triple-negative breast cancer
  • Locally advanced breast cancer
  Research Interest

  My research focuses on breast cancer treatment and survivorship. Active areas of investigation include novel treatments for triple-negative breast cancer, prevention of cardiac damage associated with breast cancer treatment, and cardiotoxicity of anti-cancer agents.

• 
  Van Rheenen, Fredric J
  Academic Appointments

  • Clinical Instructor, Medicine - Oncology
  Clinical Focus

  • Psychiatry
• 
  Wakelee, Heather A
  Academic Appointments

  • Assistant Professor - Med Center Line, Medicine - Oncology
  • Member, Cancer Center
  Clinical Focus

  • Investigational Therapeutics
  • Lung Cancer - Medical Oncology
  • Medical Oncology
  Research Interest

  Dr. Wakelee's research is focused on clinical trials in lung cancer patients. She also works with novel agents for all malignancies as part of the developmental therapeutics group of the cancer center.