continued New Faculty 24 Nyall R. London Jr., M.D., Ph.D. Nyall R. London Jr., M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Surgical Oncology Program as a Tenure-Track Investigator from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. Dr. London is an otolaryngology surgeon-scientist with expertise in disorders and cancers involving the nasal cavity, sinuses and base of the skull. Lichun Ma, Ph.D. Lichun Ma, Ph.D., has joined the Cancer Data Science Laboratory as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator from the CCR Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis. Dr. Ma is a systems biologist with a specific focus on understanding the intrinsic tumor biology of liver cancer using single-cell and spatial approaches. Yuichi Machida, Ph.D. Yuichi Machida, Ph.D., has joined the Developmental Therapeutics Branch as a Senior Investigator from the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Machida is a molecular biologist investigating the effects of DNA damage on DNA replication. Stavroula Mili, Ph.D. Stavroula Mili, Ph.D., has been awarded tenure at NIH and appointed as a Senior Investigator in the Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Biology. Dr. Mili’s work focuses on the roles of localized RNAs in mammalian physiology. Senthil K. Muthuswamy, Ph.D. Senthil K. Muthuswamy, Ph.D., has joined the Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics as Chief and Senior Investigator from Harvard University. Dr. Muthuswamy pioneered the development and use of three-dimensional organoid culture and co-culture methods for mechanistic, translational and co-clinical studies. Research from his laboratory helped define the role cell polarity proteins play in cancer biology and therapy resistance. Samuel Y. Ng, M.D., Ph.D. Samuel Y. Ng, M.D., Ph.D., has joined the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch as a Lasker Clinical Research Scholar and a Tenure-Track Investigator from Harvard University. Dr. Ng is studying the molecular mechanisms that underlie mature T-cell malignancies in order to improve the treatment of T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas. Michael Bustin, Ph.D., Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Metabolism William L. Dahut, M.D., Scientific Director for Clinical Research, NCI Clinical Director and Senior Investigator, Genitourinary Malignancies Branch Ronald E. Gress, M.D., Chief/Senior Investigator, Experimental Transplantation and Immunotherapy Branch Stephen H. Hughes, Ph.D., Chief/Senior Investigator, Host-Virus Interaction Branch and Retroviral Replication Laboratory Michael Lichten, Ph.D., Deputy Chief/Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Newly Retired With appreciation for their service, we recognize these CCR Investigators who have recently retired. Faculty list is for calendar year 2022. 25 Francis J. O’Reilly, Ph.D. Francis J. O’Reilly, Ph.D., has joined the Center for Structural Biology as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator from the Berlin Institute of Technology. Dr. O’Reilly is a structural biologist who combines structural proteomics, electron microscopy and integrative modeling to discover and structurally characterize protein complexes directly inside cells. Marta Penas-Prado, M.D., M.Sc. Marta Penas-Prado, M.D., M.Sc., has been appointed Senior Clinician in the Neuro-Oncology Branch. Dr. Penas-Prado is a neuro-oncologist focused on caring for patients with rare brain and spine tumors. Her clinical research seeks to uncover the molecular underpinnings of rare central nervous system (CNS) tumors. Vassiliki Saloura, M.D., Ph.D. Vassiliki Saloura, M.D., Ph.D., has been appointed as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator in the Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch. Dr. Saloura’s laboratory investigates the role of histone and non-histone protein methylation in tumor growth, therapy resistance and immunogenicity in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D. Urbain Weyemi, Ph.D., has joined the Developmental Therapeutics Branch as a Stadtman Tenure-Track Investigator from the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Weyemi is a molecular biologist who investigates the link between genomic instability and metabolism in human diseases using genomics tools and mouse models.
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