Cancer Cell Biology I (PATH4500)

Fall 2025

 

Introduction to the Cancer Biology Course

Stavorula Kousteni
Wed 09/03/25

 

Introduction to Tumor Suppressors and the Nature of Cancer

Richard Baer
Wed 09/03/25

 

Cell culture, Telomeres, and Retroviral Oncogenes

Richard Baer
Mon 09/08/25

 

Growth Factors and their Receptors and Cytoplasmic Signaling Circuitries

Anup Biswas
Wed 09/10/25

 

pRb and Control of the Cell Cycle clock

Hee Won Yang
Mon 09/15/25

 

The many faces of the TP53 tumor suppressor

Carol Prives
Wed 09/17/25

 

Cancer evolution and cancer genomics

Single-cell analysis of tumor progression

Peter Sims
Mon 09/22/25

Article

 

Cancer Evolution and Multistep Tumorigenesis

Katia Basso
Wed 09/24/25

 

Shaping and characterizing the Cancer Genome

Mechanisms of DNA repair

Shan Zha
Mon 09/29/25

 

RNA modifications in cancer

Sarah Zaccara
Mon 10/01/25

 

Aneuploidy and genomic instability

Alison Taylor
Wed 10/06/25

 

Cancer plasticity and Cancer stem cells

Michael Shen
Wed 10/08/25

 

Cancer Metabolism

Christine Chio
Mon 10/13/25

 

Epigenetics

Zhiguo Zhang
Wed 10/15/25

 

Metabolism, chromatin biology and cell fate

Juan M. Schvartzman
Mon 10/20/25

 

Tumor Microenvironment

Histopathology/molecular pathology of human cancer

Hanina Hibshoosh
Wed 10/22/25

 

Preclinical models of cancer

Carla Concepcion
Mon 10/27/25

 

Moving out: Invasion and Metastasis

Swarnali Acharyya
Wed 10/29/25

 

Feeding the tumors: mechanisms of angiogenesis

Minah Kim
Mon 11/03/25

 

Tumor microenvironment and tumor immunology

Robert Schwabe
Wed 11/05/25

 

Exogenous factors modulating cancer evolution and therapy response

Viraj Sanghvi
Mon 11/10/25

 

Cancer Therapies

Rational treatment of cancer and therapy resistance

Teresa Palomero
Wed 11/12/25

 

Chemical Genomics Approaches to Cancer Therapy

Jose McFaline-Figueroa
Mon 11/17/25

 

Cancer Immunotherapy: vaccination and antibody-based therapies

Ben Izar
Wed 11/19/25

 

Disease Models

Gastro-intestinal Cancer

Anil Rustgi
Mon 11/24/25

 

Clonal Hematopoiesis, MDS and myeloid leukemia

Aaron Viny
Mon 12/01/25

 

B-cell lymphoma

Laura Pasqualucci
Wed 12/03/25

 

Bladder and urogenital cancer

Cory Abate-Shen
Mon 12/08/25

 

Brain Tumors: Development, Diversity, and Disease

Robert Wechler-Reya
Wed 12/10/25