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Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center

First established in 1974, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University became an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in 1997. Dedicated to overcoming cancer through scientific discovery, advancing medical knowledge, providing state-of-the-art cancer care, and training the next generation of physicians and scientists, the Lurie Cancer Center has a long-standing commitment to advocacy, education, outreach, and engagement.

The Lurie Cancer Center unites physicians and scientists from Northwestern University’s campuses in Evanston and Chicago. Working together across disciplines, they bring their combined skills and expertise to patients at four Chicago teaching hospitals: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, and the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.

Fueled by advances in research, Lurie Cancer Center and its affiliated hospitals provide comprehensive care for nearly 16,000 new patients each year. A wide range of specialized programs and services support patients from diagnosis through treatment and survivorship, including dynamic supportive oncology, fertility preservation, and survivorship programs.

Read more about the the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University. 

Northwestern University

Comp
Leonidas C. Platanias, MD, PhD
Director
303 E. Superior Street
Suite 3-125
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 695-0990
Aleksandar Zafirovski, MBA
Associate Director of Administration
Melissa Simon, MD, MPH
Associate Director for Community Outreach & Engagement
Marcelo Bonini, PhD
Associate Director, Education and Training
Sarki Abdulkadir, MD, PhD
Associate Director, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Cancer and Physical Sciences (CAPS) Vadim Backman, PhD; Gayle Woloschak, PhD
Cancer Control and Survivorship (CCS) Christine Rini, PhD; Betina Yanez, PhD
Cancer Epigenetics and Nuclear Dynamics (CEND) Ali Shilatifard, PhD; Sadie Wignall, PhD; Feng Yue, PhD
Cancer Prevention (CP) Seema Khan, MD; Bonnie Spring, PhD; Brian Hitsman, PhD
Hematologic Malignancies (HM) Elizabeth Eklund, MD; Leo Gordon, MD; Yan Liu, PhD
Membranes, Organelles and Metabolism (MOM) Navdeep Chandel, PhD; Curt Horvath, PhD
Translational Research in Solid Tumors (TRIST) Marcus Peter, PhD; Daniela Matei, MD; Jeffrey Sosman, MD
Tumor Environment and Metastasis (TEAM) Hidayatullah Munshi, MD; Luisa Iruela-Arispe, PhD; Bin Zhang, MD, PhD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Center for Advanced Microscopy (CAM) Constadina Arvanitis, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Developmental Therapeutics Core Facility (DTC) Xiao-Nan Li, MD, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Flow Cytometry Facility (Flow) Harris Perlman, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science High Throughput Analysis Laboratory (HTA) Curt Horvath, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Keck Biophysics Facility (Keck) Amy Rosenzweig, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Medicinal and Synthetic Chemistry Core Facility (ChemCore) Karl Scheidt, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Molecular and Translational Imaging Core Facility (MTIC) Thomas Meade, PhD; Dong-Hyun Kim, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Mouse Histology and Phenotyping Laboratory (MHPL) Jared Ahrendsen, MD, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Proteomics Shared Resource Facility (Proteomics) Neil Kelleher, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Structural Biology Facility (SBF) Alfonso Mondragón, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Transgenic and Targeted Mutagenesis Laboratory (TTML) Rajeshwar Awatramani, PhD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control Outcomes Measurement and Survey Core Facility (OMSC) Nan Rothrock, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Pathology Core Facility (PCF) Craig Horbinski, MD, PhD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Quantitative Data Sciences Core (QDSC) Masha Kocherginsky, PhD
Last Updated
June 5, 2024