Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center

The Wake Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center (WFBCCC) became an NCI-Designated Cancer Center in 1974. Offering nine cancer care locations across the Wake Forest Health Network, the center provides access to cancer care and expertise to the Piedmont and southern Appalachian region, an area of 58 contiguous counties in North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia. This region has significant health disparities compared with national averages.

WFBCCC is focused on improving cancer outcomes, patient advocacy, and community engagement. Its mission is to reduce cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality in the local area it serves, nationally, and internationally through cutting-edge research, treatments, education, outreach, and multidisciplinary training. The WFBCCC leverages the expertise of more than 400 physicians and researchers to translate scientific knowledge and innovations directly to patients.

Wake Forest School of Medicine

Comp

Ruben A. Mesa, MD, FACP
Executive Director

Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1082

(336) 716-7971

Admin Leader

Jess Richards
Associate Director of Administration

COE Leader

Nadine Barrett, PhD, MA, MPH
Associate Director of Community Outreach and Engagement

CRTEC Leader

Heidi Klepin, MD, MS
Associate Director of Cancer Research Training and Education Coordination

PED Leader

Adebola Adedimeji, PhD, MBA, MPH, MS
Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Research Programs

Research Program	Program Leaders
Cancer Genetics and Metabolism	Cristina Furdui, PhD; Timothy Pardee, MD, PhD
Cancer Prevention and Control	Eric Donny, PhD; John Salsman, PhD
Neuro-Oncology	Waldemar Debinski, MD, PhD; Glenn Lesser, MD
Signaling and Biotechnology	Karen Haas, PhD; Chang Lu, PhD

Shared Resources

Category	Resource	Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Cancer Genomics Shared Resource	Gregory Hawkins, PhD; Lance Miller, PhD, MS
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Crystallography and Computational Biosciences Shared Resource	Thomas Hollis, PhD; W. Todd Lowther, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Flow Cytometry Shared Resource	Jason Grayson, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Proteomics and Metabolomics Shared Resource	Cristina Furdui, PhD
Cat 2: Laboratory Support	Cell Engineering Shared Resource	Ravi Singh, PhD
Cat 2: Laboratory Support	Tumor Tissue and Pathology Shared Resource	Edward Levine, MD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control	Qualitative and Patient-Reported Outcomes (Q-Pro) Shared Resource	Erin Sutfin, PhD
Cat 6: Biostatistics	Biostatistics Shared Resource	Ralph D'Agostino, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics	Bioinformatics Shared Resource	Liang Liu, PhD; Wei Zhang, PhD

Last Updated

November 5, 2024