Overview
The Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics program aims to facilitate molecular target-based cancer drug discovery, biomedical technology and clinical trials for therapeutic development.
Members of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics program work collaboratively on the next generation of anti-cancer innovations and help move these advances from the lab to the clinic. The program includes basic scientists who identify new anti-cancer targets, translational researchers who refine these discoveries for clinical application, and physicians who treat patients with promising new cancer therapies and techniques.
Collaboration is a key component of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics program's successful drug development pipeline. An important priority of the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics program is to support activities, resources and opportunities that foster collaboration and serve the multi-disciplinary research interests of its members.
Under the leadership of Haian Fu, PhD and Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD, the program includes 56 core members representing 16 different departments with the Emory University School of Medicine, Rollins School of Public Health and Emory College.
Program Themes
The Discovery and Development Therapeutics research program at Winship Cancer Institute develops and recruits expertise focused on four specific interconnected themes.
The four central themes include:
Drug Discovery: focuses on the discovery of new agents and new therapeutic combinations to more effectively treat cancer.
Imaging: focuses on developing new cancer imaging probes with diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic significance.
Immunotherapy: focuses on cancer vaccine discovery, immunotherapeutics that enhance the effectiveness of cancer therapeutics, and strategies to suppress unwanted immune responses in bone marrow transplantation patients.
Developmental Therapeutics: focuses on the design and conduct of innovative clinical trials, bringing discoveries made in the lab into safe and effective clinical practice.
Publications
Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics program members are continuously publishing landmark research in high-impact scientific journals.
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Program Contacts
To learn more about the Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics research program at Winship Cancer Institute, please contact Olga Rivera at (404) 727-5983.
Visit the Emory University's Cancer Biology Graduate Program website to learn about outstanding training opportunities in every aspect of cancer research, from basic to translational.
Program Leaders
Haian Fu, PhD
- Leader, Discovery & Developmental Therapeutics Program
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Dr. Fu leads a research program which is the primary driver of discovery and evaluation of novel therapeutic options for cancer patients at Winship.
Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD
- Deputy Director
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
As Deputy Director, Dr. Ramalingam leads the integration of the research, clinical, and educational components within Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.
All Program Members
- Rafi Ahmed, PhD
- Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Mehmet Akce, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Olatunji B. Alese, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- John D. Altman, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jack Arbiser, MD, PhD
- Thomas J. Lawley Professor of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Martha Arellano , MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FACR, FASTRO
- Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Charlie Garnett Benson, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Georgia State University
- Daniel John Bergsagel, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- David M. Berkowitz, MD
- Director, Interventional Pulmonology Program, Emory University Hospital Midtown
- Mehmet Asim Bilen, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Simon Blakey, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
- Kristie A. Blum, MD
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ramireddy Bommireddy, PhD, MSc
- Instructor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Michael Briones, DO
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics , Emory University School of Medicine
- Kenneth Cardona, MD, FACS
- Co-Chair Gastrointestinal Oncology Working Group, Emory University Hospital Midtown
- Grant W. Carlson, MD, FACS
- Wadley R. Glenn Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Bradley Carthon, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- William T. Cash, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Richard Castillo, PhD, DABR
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Georgia Chen, PhD
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Zhengjia (Nelson) Chen, PhD
- Associate Research Professor, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- John F. Codington, PhD
- Senior Researcher Associate, Department of Chemistry, Emory College of Arts and Sciences
- Jonathon B. Cohen, MD, MS
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Michael Cohen, MD, FACR
- Director, Division of Breast Imaging, Emory Healthcare
- Ian R. Crocker, MD, FACR
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Walter J. Curran, Jr., MD, FACR, FASCO
- Executive Director, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- James Dahlman, PhD
- Assstant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Huw M. L. Davies, PhD
- Asa Griggs Candler Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
- Keith Delman, MD, FACS
- Co-Chair, Melanoma Working Group, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Jiusheng Deng, PhD
- Instructor, Department of Pathology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Xingming Deng, MD, PhD
- Professor and Chair in Cancer Biology, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Deborah DeRyckere, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jaydev P. Desai, PhD, MA
- Professor and BME Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech
- Madhav V. Dhodapkar, MBBS
- Acting Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Erik C. Dreaden, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Yuhong Du, PhD, MSc
- Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine
- James R. Eckman, MD
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Hematology and Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Scott Edelman, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Eric S. Elder, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Badi El Osta, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Fuad El Rassi, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Bassel El-Rayes, MD
- Associate Director for Clinical Research, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Stanislav Emelianov, PhD
- Professor and Joseph M. Pettit Chair, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Baowei Fei, PhD, EngD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University School of Medicine
- Candace C. Fleischer, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Lisa Flowers, MD
- Director of Colposcopy Services, Grady Cancer Center
- Mandy L. Ford, PhD
- Associate Professor, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Haian Fu, PhD
- Leader, Discovery & Developmental Therapeutics Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Manila Gaddh, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Anthony A. Gal, MD
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jacques Galipeau, MD, FRCP(C)
- Bradley George, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Cynthia R. Giver, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Karen Godette, MD
- Medical Director of Radiation Oncology, Emory University Hospital Midtown
- Mark M. Goodman, PhD
- Professor, Radiology, Psychiatry and Hematology and Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Alan N. Gordon, MD
- Director, Division of Gynecologic Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute
- Douglas K. Graham, MD, PhD
- Director and Daniel P. Amos Children's Chair, Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
- Christopher C. Griffith, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Lubing Gu, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ann E. Haight, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Raghuveer K. Halkar, MD
- Professor, Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Wayne B. Harris , MD
- Assistant Chief of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- R. Donald Harvey, PharmD, BCOP, FCCP, FHOPA
- Director, Phase I Clinical Trials Section , Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Natalyn Hawk, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Leonard T. Heffner Jr., MD
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Bruce Hershatter, MD, FACR
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Kristin Higgins, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Craig C. Hofmeister, MD, MPH
- Acting Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- John T. Horan, MD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics , Emory University School of Medicine
- G. Baker Hubbard III, MD
- Thomas M. Aaberg Sr. Chair in Ophthalmology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Patricia A. Hudgins, MD, FACR
- Director, Head and Neck Radiology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Stephen B. Hunter, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Selwyn Hurwitz, PhD, MSc
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Adriana Ioachimescu, MD, PhD, FACE
- Professor, Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Muta M. Issa, MD, FACS, MBA
- Professor, Department of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Andrey Ivanov, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Anna Janss, MD, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics , Emory University School of Medicine
- Harish C. Joshi, PhD
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Cell Biology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Nathan T. Jui, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
- Jonathan L. Kaufman, MD
- Medical Director and Section Chief, Ambulatory Infusion Centers, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Mohammad K. Khan, MD, PhD, DABR, FACRO
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Noreen Khan, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Fadlo R. Khuri, MD, FACP
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Robert J. Klafter, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jean L. Koff, MD
- Instructor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- David A. Kooby, MD, FACS
- Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jeanne Kowalski, PhD
- Director, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Ragini Kudchadkar, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jerome C. Landry, MD, MBA
- Chief of Service, Edward Loughlin Oncology Center, Grady Memorial Hospital
- Amelia A. Langston, MD
- Medical Director and Section Chief, Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- David H. Lawson, MD
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Mary Jo Lechowicz, MD
- Professor and Vice Chair for Education, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Gregory B. Lesinski, PhD, MPH
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Glen Lew, MD
- Associate Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jonathan S. Lewin, MD, FACR
- Executive Vice President for Health Affairs, Emory University
- Shiyong Li, MD, PhD, FASCP
- Director, Flow Cytometry Laboratory, Emory Medical Laboratory, Emory University Hospital
- Lanny S. Liebeskind, PhD
- Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
- Dennis Liotta, PhD
- Executive Director, Emory Institute for Drug Development , Emory University
- Tian Liu, PhD, DABR
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Yuan Liu, PhD, MS
- Assistant Research Professor, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Sagar Lonial, MD, FACP
- Chief Medical Officer, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Michael C. Lowe, MD, MA
- Assistant Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Joseph Magliocca, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Surgery , Emory University School of Medicine
- Shishir K. Maithel , MD, FACS
- Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Karen P. Mann, MD, PhD
- Chief Clinical Pathology, Grady Health System
- Hui Mao, PhD
- Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Claire M. Mazewski, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Frank McDonald, PhD
- Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
- Jane Lowe Meisel, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Carolyn C. Meltzer, MD, FACR
- William P. Timmie Professor and Chair, Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Alfred H. Merrill, Jr., PhD
- Professor and Smithgall Institute Professor of Molecular Cell Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Melvin R. Moore, MD
- Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Edward T. Morgan, PhD
- Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ganji Purnachandra Nagaraju, MS, PhD
- Instructor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology , Emory University School of Medicine
- Shuming Nie, PhD
- Adjunct Professor, Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology College of Engineering/Emory University School of Medicine
- Sherif G. Nour, MD, FRCR
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Kenneth Ogan, MD
- Professor, Department of Urology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jeffrey J. Olson, MD
- Director, Clinically-related Neuro-oncology Laboratory, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Thomas A. Olson, MD
- Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Brian Michael Olson, PhD
- Instructor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Gabriela Oprea-Ilies, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Eric Ortlund, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Emory University School of Medicine
- Adeboye O. Osunkoya, MD
- Director, Surgical Pathology Fellowship Program, Emory University School of Medicine
- Taofeek Owonikoko, MD, PhD, MSCR
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Nelson M. Oyesiku, MD, PhD, FACS
- Director, Laboratory of Molecular Neurosurgery and Biotechnology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Suchita Pakkala, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Elisavet Paplomata, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ephraim Edward Parent, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Services, Emory University School of Medicine
- Pretesh Patel, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- John G. Pattaras, MD, FACS
- Chief of Urology, Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital
- Rebecca Pentz, PhD
- Professor of Hematology and Oncology in Research Ethics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Allan Pickens, MD
- Director of Thoracic Oncology, Emory University Hospital Midtown
- Rathi Pillai, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Daniel Pomeranz Krummel, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- J. David Prologo, MD
- Director of Interventional Radiology Services, Emory Johns Creek Hospital
- Muna Qayed, MD, MsCR
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Cassandra Leah Quave, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Dermatology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Sunil S. Raikar, MD
- Senior Associate, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Suresh S. Ramalingam, MD
- Deputy Director, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- William Read, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- John M. Rhee, MD
- Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Chad W. Ritenour, MD
- Chief Medical Officer, Emory University Hospital
- John D. Roback, MD, PhD
- Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Justin Roper, PhD, DABR
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Steven Roser, MD, DMD, FACS
- DeLos Hill Professor of Oral Surgery and Chief, Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Nabil F. Saba, MD, FACP
- Director, Head and Neck Medical Oncology Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Himalee S. Sabnis, MD, MSc
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Ignacio Sanz, MD
- Mason I. Lowance Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Rein Saral, MD
- Professor Emeritus, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Juan M. Sarmiento, MD, FACS
- Associate Professor, Division of General and GI Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Debra Saxe, PhD
- Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Frank Schneider, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Eduard Schreibmann, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- David M. Schuster, MD
- Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- Periasamy Selvaraj, PhD
- Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Soma Sengupta, MD, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Walid L. Shaib, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Dmitry M. Shayakhmetov, PhD
- Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Jay Shelton, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Dong Moon Shin, MD, FACP, FAAAS
- Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Mamoru Shoji , MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Gabriel Sica, MD, PhD
- Director, Cancer Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- C. Arturo Solares, MD
- Professor, Department of Otolaryngology, Emory University School of Medicine
- H. Trent Spencer, PhD
- Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Charles A. Staley, MD
- Chief Quality Officer, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Conor E. Steuer, MD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Toncred Marya Styblo, MD, MS, FACS
- Associate Professor, Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Xiangyang Tang, PhD, DABR
- Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine
- William Torres, MD, FACR
- Chief, Department of Radiology, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Alfredo Voloschin, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology , Emory University School of Medicine
- Edmund K. Waller, MD, PhD, FACP
- Director, Bone Marrow and Stem Cell Transplant Program, Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
- Collin J. Weber, MD
- William C. McGarity Professor of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine
- Emily Weinert, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Emory University
- M. Neale Weitzmann, PhD
- Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Field F. Willingham, MD, MPH
- Director of Endoscopy, Division of Digestive Disease, Emory University School of Medicine
- Elliott F. Winton, MD
- Professor, Department of Hematology & Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Christina Wu, MD
- Associate Professor, Department of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Dan Yan, PhD
- Instructor, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine
- Xiaofeng Yang, PhD
- Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine
- Keqiang Ye , PhD
- Professor, Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Shaojin Mark You, PhD
- Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine
- Shan Ping Yu, MD, PhD
- O. Wayne Rollins Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University School of Medicine