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