Leadership
Director
Joann B. Sweasy, PhD
Robert F. and Myrna L. Krohn Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Director, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Professor, Eppley Institute
Research focus: DNA repair
Deputy Director
Raymond C. Bergan, MD
Deputy Director, Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Professor, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Professor, UNMC Department of Internal Medicine
Research focus: Genitourinary Oncology
Associate Directors
Michael (Tony) A. Hollingsworth, PhD
Hugh & Jane Hunt Chair in Cancer Research, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Associate Director for Basic Research, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Research focus: Pancreatic cancer biochemistry, diagnostics, and treatments (including immunotherapies)
Joyce Solheim, PhD
Professor, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Director, IGPBS-Cancer Research Doctoral Program, Cancer Research M.S. Program, and Eppley Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Associate Director for Training and Education, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Research focus: Mechanisms regulating the immune response to tumors and infectious pathogens, and development of new immunotherapies
