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Penn Vet Cancer Center Members

The Penn Vet Cancer Center is comprised of research scientists and clinicians from all four departments of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.  Our members come from a diverse educational and clinical backgrounds and represent a wide array of research interests.

To learn more about becoming a member, contact us.

 
Penn Vet Cancer Center Members
215-573-9406
epure@upenn.edu
Research: Tumor microenvironment, cellular and molecular basis of inflammation and fibrosis
215-898-6428
atchison@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Transcription, gene expression, oncogenesis

mattath@upenn.eduClinical: Medical oncology
Research: T cell-based immunotherapy, canine cancer

  • Timour Baslan, PhD
tbaslan@upenn.eduResearch: Cancer genetics and biology, sequencing and maths, method development
ablanco@vet.upenn.eduResearch: How epigenetic information is encoded, interpreted, and propagated in normal and cancerous cell identity programs

215-7468426
ibrodsky@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Bacterial pathogens, bacteriology, infectious disease, inflammasome, innate immune defense, immunology

churchm@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Diagnostic anatomic pathology and neuropathology
Research: Comparative oncopathology, neuroinflammatory disease, and spontaneous models of disease


215-898-5448
dudal@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Radiation therapy

215-898-7871
amycd@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Lymphoid neoplasms, lymphoma, oncologic pathology, pathology

434-882-6160
karineis@mail.med.upenn.edu 

Research: Cancer and immunobiology

610-925-6451
engiles@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Veterinary anatomic pathology, veterinary orthopedic pathology, equine laminitis, equine gastrointestinal pathology, equine microbiome experimental animal models
Research: Gastrointestinal pathology, orthopedic pathology, laminitis,

215-573-6949
syfuchs@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Cytokines, immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment and anti-cancer therapies


magri@vet.upenn.edu Clinical: surgical oncology
Research: novel imaging techniques to detect cancer pre- and intra-operatively and to determine treatment response following therapy, sentinel lymph node mapping, minimally invasive surgery, interventional oncology

215-898-4680
dholt@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Soft-tissue surgery,
Research: Imaging cancer during surgery, portosystemic shunts, brachycephalic airway disease, laryngeal paralysis

215-573-7772
chunter@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Infectious disease, toxoplasma gondii, zoonotic diseases, host-pathogen interactions, immunology, parasites, parasitology, transgenic parasites, inflammatory responses

215-746-0895
akashina@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Angiogenesis, protein arginylation, cancer

215-746-8425
lengner@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Regenerative medicine, cancer, reprogramming, oncogenesis, oncogenic transformation, somatic stem cells, oncology, epithelium, regeneration

jlenz@vet.upenn.eduClinical: Medical oncology
Research: Canine cancer


215-573-5664
fluca@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Regulation of cell growth and proliferation, signal transduction, cell cycle regulation, polarized morphogenesis, cancer, yeast genetics, and cell biology

215-898-3304
wmai@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Radiology, CT-MRI, CT, MRI
Research: Diagnostic imaging, radiology, ultrasonography, vascular Imaging

215-898-3996
nmason@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Internal medicine,
Research: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, chimeric auto-antigen receptor T cells, adoptive cell therapies, canine and feline checkpoint inhibitors, Listeria based vaccines, canine hematopoietic cancers, canine osteosarcoma, canine urothelial carcinoma, canine soft tissue sarcomas, canine lupus

215-573-0940
maym@vet.upenn.edu

Research: Inflammatory diseases, inflammatory responses, cancer, NF-Kappa B activation, signal transduction, chronic inflammatory diseases

wkp@upenn.edu Clinical: Neurology and neurosurgery
Research: Translational neuro-oncology, primary brain tumors, targeted immunotherapy, brain tumor microenvironment, canine brain aging and cognitive dysfunction

pascaleg@vet.upenn.edu
Clinical: Medical treatment of canine and feline cancers with a special interest in lymphoma and hemangiosarcoma
215-898-0635
swvolk@vet.upenn.edu

Clinical: Soft-tissue surgery
Research: Wound repair and regeneration, extracellular matrix, scar formation and fibrosis, regenerative medicine, cell-based therapies, tumor microenvironment