The Louisiana Board of Regents Superior Graduate Student Training Program in Cancer Biology

The Superior Graduate Student Training Program in Cancer Biology will provide stipend and full tuition support for students admitted into the Ph.D. program in the Fall of 2005. Students to be considered for this Training Award must be United States citizens and exceed all of the requirements for admission into the School of Graduate Studies. The minimum eligibility requirements for the Superior Graduate Student Training Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology are:

A undergraduate grade point average (GPA) of at least 3.5 on the 4-point scale, and

A combined GRE verbal and quantitative analysis score of at least 1250.

Stipend support for students entering the Superior Graduate Student Training Program in Cancer in the Fall of 2005 will be $22,000.

In order to be considered for this Award or for more information, please contact Dr. James Gnarra (jgnarr@lsuhsc.edu).

The Superior Graduate Student Training Program in Caner Biology is multi-disciplinary. Program mentors represent the Basic Science Departments of the School of Graduate Studies, and most of the faculty are active members of various research centers including the Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center, the Center for Human Molecular Genetics, and the Neuroscience Center of Excellence. Graduate trainees in this Program will have the opportunity to study under excellent, highly experienced mentors in modern, state-of-the-art research laboratories.

The Faculty Members participating in the Training Program in Cancer Biology include:

Suresh Alahari	Associate Professor	Tumor cell adhesion, migration, and invasion
Wayne Backes, Ph.D.	Professor	Expression and activity of cytochrome P450 enzymes
Haydee Bazan, Ph.D.	Professor	Proteases and protease inhibitors in inflammation
Nicolas Bazan, M.D., Ph.D.	Professor	Bioactive lipids and signal transduction
Hamid Boulares, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	PARP-1 and oxidative stress
Andrew Catling, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Signal transduction and cell adhesion to the extracellular matrix
Yan Cui, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Gene therapy of hematopoietic malignancies
Paul Fidel, Ph.D.	Professor	Host defense and mucosal immunity
Marion Freistadt, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	RNA virus replication and anti-viral therapeutics
James Gnarra, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Regulation of expression of angiogenic growth factors
Edward Grabczyk, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	DNA instability and molecular biology of Friedreich ataxia
Paula Gregory, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Genetics and gene therapy education
Arthur Haas, Ph.D.	Professor	The roles of ubiquitin and ISG15 conjugation in cellular regulation
Michael Hagensee, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Immunity and human papilloma virus
Jay Hunt, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Bioactive lipids in angiogenesis and molecular epidemiology of lung cancer
Bronya Keats, Ph.D.	Professor	Genetics of Friedreich ataxia and Usher syndrome
Shahriar Koochekpour, M.D., Ph.D	Assistant Professor	Neurotrophic factors and prostate cancer
Steven Lanier, Ph.D.	Professor	G protein signal transduction
Iris Lindberg, Ph.D.	Professor	The role of furin in the activation and proteolytic maturation of secreted proteins
Diptasri Mandal, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Genetics of prostate cancer
Augusto Ochoa, M.D.	Professor	Tumor immunology
Walter Rayford, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Prostate cancer genetics and gene therapy
Barbara Schneider, Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Genetics and the molecular basis of gastric cancer
Donald Scott, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Regulation of gene expression by glucose metabolism
Guangyu Wu, Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	Signal transduction and cardiac hypertrophy
Wayne Vedeckis, Ph.D.	Professor	Regulation of glucocorticoid receptor expression and activity in leukemia
Bo Xu, M.D., Ph.D.	Assistant Professor	DNA damage and oncogenesis