Principal Investigator

John Blenis, Ph.D.

Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Professor in Cancer Research

Associate Director of Basic Science, The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center

Professor of Pharmacology

Director, Pharmacology Ph.D. Program

job2064@med.cornell.edu

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Aristotle Lau Cheng

Ph.D. Student in Chemical Biology

acl4001@med.cornell.edu

 

Jennifer Endress

Ph.D. Student in Biochemistry and Structural Biology

jee4001@med.cornell.edu

 

Moniquetta Shafer

M. Ed., PMP

Ph.D. Student in Pharmacology

mos4011@med.cornell.edu

Moniquetta works to understand how cancer cells alter metabolic pathways to enable metastatic progression. Specifically, she is working on understanding how abnormal accumulation of propionate metabolism intermediates may support cancer cell ability to activate cell migration and chemoresistance.