Winship awards new chairs
Winship Executive Director Walter J. Curran, Jr. with new endowed chair recipients Hyunsuk Shim, David Yu, and Xingming Deng. Photography by Jack Kearse
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Xingming Deng is the inaugural holder of the Chair in Cancer Biology. Professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Deng has unique expertise in uncovering cell death mechanisms, especially in the Bcl-2 and Bax family of proteins. His research focuses on signaling mechanisms of tumor invasion/metastasis.
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David Yu is the inaugural holder of the Jerome Landry MD Chair of Cancer Research. Associate professor in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Yu focuses on the role of acetylation in directing the replication stress response, and studies how this can translate into cancer therapeutics and diagnostics.
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Hyunsuk Shim is the inaugural holder of the Crocker Family Chair in Cancer Innovation. Professor and scientific director of medical physics in the Department of Radiation Oncology, Shim is a molecular oncologist with a specialty in diagnostic imaging and drug discovery. She has contributed insights into chemokine receptor modulation in cancer invasion and metastasis.
