Uncovering Hormone Mediated Mechanisms of Sex Differences in Cancer

Speaker

Amy Moran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell, Developmental and Cancer Biology, School of Medicine
Program in Molecular and Cellular Biosciences, School of Medicine
Cancer Biology Graduate Program, School of Medicine

Dr. Moran earned her PhD in Microbiology, Cancer Biology and Immunology from the University of Minnesota where she developed the Nur77GFP mouse. Currently she is an Associate Professor of Cell, Developmental & Cancer Biology at Oregon Health & Science University in 2017 where she is currently. Her research focuses on how androgens regulate immunobiology. Her group utilizes a variety of tools to interrogate these fundamental and translational questions including transgenic and chimeric mouse models, infections, in vivo tumor modeling, in vitro cellular assays, monoclonal antibodies and small molecules as cancer therapeutics, single cell ‘omics, and flow cytometry. She partners with clinicians and computational biologists, training graduate students and postdocs within her laboratory with an overall goal of moving benchtop discoveries back into the clinic for the care of patients with cancer.

Points of Contact

Sponsor or Host: Edward Sauter, M.D.
Contact Person: Mela Asefa
Contact Email: mela.asefa@nih.gov