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University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

The University of Wisconsin (UW) Carbone Cancer Center has been an NCI-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center since 1973. UW Carbone is an integral part of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health, bringing together more than 330 physicians and scientists from 50 departments and nine schools to conduct research and translate laboratory discoveries into new patient treatments.

UW Carbone is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network and the Big Ten Cancer Research Consortium.

Read more about The UW Carbone Cancer Center. 

University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center

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Christian Capitini, MD
Acting Director
600 Highland Ave., Rm. K4/610
Madison , WI 53792-0001
(608) 263-8610

Senior Leaders

Senior Leader Title
Amy Trentham-Dietz, PhD Associate Director of Population Sciences
Christian Capitini, MD Acting Director
Jomol Mathew, PhD Associate Director of Informatics
Joshua M Lang, MD Associate Director of Translational Research
Kari Wisinski, MD Deputy Director
Lee G Wilke, MD Senior Medical Director of Clinical Cancer Services
Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD Associate Director of Clinical Research
Paul G Ahlquist, PhD Associate Director of Basic Sciences
Perry Pickhardt, MD Medical Director of Cancer Imaging
Peter Connor, MS Associate Director of Administration
Randy Kimple, MD, PhD, MBA Associate Director of Faculty Development and Education
Sharon Weber, MD Medical Director of Surgical Oncology
TBD Associate Director of Shared Resources

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Cancer Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms Wei Xu, PhD; Emery Bresnick, PhD
Cancer Prevention and Control Nihal Ahmad, PhD; Lisa Barroilhet, MD; Shaneda Warren Anderson, PhD, MS
Developmental Therapeutics Christian Capitini, MD; Dustin Deming, MD; Beth Weaver, PhD
Human Cancer Virology Shannon Kenney, MD; Robert Kalejta, PhD
Imaging and Radiation Sciences Mark (Marty) Pagel, PhD; Randall Kimple, MD, PhD; Pallavi Tiwari, PhD
Tumor Microenvironment Pamela Kreeger, PhD; Jacob Notbohm, PhD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Cancer Metabolomics and Proteomics Shared Resource (CAMP) (Developing) Josh Coon, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Drug Development Core Timothy Bugni, PhD; Paul Hutson, PharmD, MS; Weiping Tang, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Flow Cytometry Manish Patankar, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Genome Editing And Animal Models Christopher Bradfield, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Small Animal Imaging and Radiotherapy Facility Jamey Weichert, PhD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control Survey of the Health of Wisconsin Shaneda Warren Andersen, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Cancer Clinical Research Imaging Core (CRIC) (Developing) Steve Cho, MD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Circulating Biomarker Core Joshua Lang, MD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Pharmaceutical Research Center Nataliya Uboha, MD, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research Translational Science Biocore Kristina Matkowskyj, MD, PhD; Stephanie McGregor, MD, PhD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics Lu Mao, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics Cancer Informatics Colin Dewey, PhD
Last Updated
December 18, 2025