Meet The Current Team

Heide Ford

PhD, University of Rochester
​Postdoc- Harvard Medical School- DFCI
Professor, Dept. of Pharmacology
David and Margaret Turley Grohne Chair in Basic Cancer Research
​Associate Director of Basic Research, University of Colorado Cancer Center

Taylor Hotz

BA, University of Colorado Boulder
​Professional Research Assistant

Project Focus: Elucidating mechanisms by which Eya proteins influence tumor progression

Jessica Hsu

BS, University of California, Berkeley
​Pharmacology Graduate Student
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Project Focus: Zebrafish models of rhabdomyosarcoma (collaboration with Artinger Lab)

​Funded by a CCTSI grant

Michael Oliphant

MS, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Student Integrated Physiology

​Project Focus:  
​Regulation of Late Stage Metastasis in Breast Cancer

Funded by F99/K00 from NCI

Connor Hughes

BS, University of Richmond

MSTP (MD/PhD)/ Pharmacology Graduate Student

Project Focus:  Tumor Heterogeneity/How EMT in Carcinoma cells influences neighboring Tumor Cells as well as the microenvironment

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Melanie Vincent

PhD, Albany Medical College
Postdoctoral Fellow

​Project Focus:  Group 3 Medulloblastoma Progression

Funded by Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation

Hengbo Zhou                                                            Deguang Kong

                              MS, Georgetown University                                         MS, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
                        Cancer Biology Graduate Student                                                Visiting Graduate Student

                                      Project Focus:                                                                          Project Focus: Tumor Cell Crosstalk and EMT           
                         Eya Thr phosphatase regulation                                                                                       in Metastasis                                                                
​                              of breast tumor progression

                          Funded by F99/K00 from the NCI                                            Funded by Grant from the Chinese Government

                                                                                                                                    
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