Mentors
In our center, research project leaders each are assigned two mentors who are established investigators.
These mentors are tasked with providing scientific advice and career guidance to their project leader mentees. One of the primary goals of our center is to foster the advancement of promising junior scientists and facilitate their development into self-supporting faculty members invaluable to the future success of our research community, our institution and beyond.
Mentors
Edward and Lida Robinson Professor of Cancer Research, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Co-Leader, Targets, Modulators, and Delivery Program, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Director, Nebraska Center for Molecular Target Discovery and Development
Research Focus: Cell growth and metabolism
Professor, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Program Leader, Gastrointestinal Cancer Research Program
Research focus: Protein kinase C and PP2A signaling in colon, pancreas and endometrial cancer; targeting translational control in tumors
Professor, Division of Oncology & Hematology
Director, Pilot Projects Program, Great Plains IDeA-CTR
Associate Dean, Research and Graduate Studies, UNMC College of Pharmacy
Professor
Ruth Branham Professor, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Co-Leader, Targets Modulators and Delivery Program, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Co-Director, Eppley Structural Biology Facility
Research focus: Developing novel target and mechanism specific therapeutics
