UPMC Hillman Cancer Center

John M. Kirkwood, MD (Co-Leader)
Email: kirkwoodjm@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Melanoma; immunology; immunotherapy; interferon; cancer vaccines; clinical trials

Hassane M. Zarour, MD (Co-Leader)
Email: zarourhm@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Cancer immunology; cancer immunotherapy; melanoma; skin cancer

Lisa Butterfield, PhD
Email: butterfieldl@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Immune therapies; viral therapies; cancer vaccines; dendritic cells; immunotherapy; melanoma; hepatocellular carcinoma; alpha-fetoproteins

Diwakar Davar, MD
Email: davard@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Tumor immunobiology; tumor microenvironment; checkpoint inhibition; early phase clinical trials; immunotherapy; melanoma

Louis D. Falo, Jr., MD, PhD
Email: falold@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Melanoma; skin cancer; immunotherapy; cancer vaccines; dendritic cells

Laura Korb Ferris, MD, PhD
Email: ferrislk@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Melanoma; dermatoscope; early detection; screening

Patrizia Fuschiotti, PhD
Email: paf23@pitt.edu
Research Keywords:
T cell differentiation; cytokines; immunology

Jonhan Ho, MD
Email: hoxxjx@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Dematopathology; melanoma; skin cancer

Matthew P. Holtzman, MD
Email: holtzmanmp@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Surgical oncology; GI cancers; melanoma; sarcomas; prevention and treatment of recurrent cancers

Arivarasan Karunamurthy, MD
Email: karunamurthya@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Melanoma; cutaneous lymphoma; digital predictive immunoscoring; biomarkers; bioinformatics

Yan Lin, PhD
Email: yal14@pitt.edu
Research Keywords:
Cancer bioinformatics

Uma N. M. Rao, MD
Email: raounm@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Sarcoma; melanoma; molecular analysis; pathology; bone and soft tissue tumors

Walter Storkus, PhD
Email: storkuswj@upmc.edu
Research Keywords:
Tumor biology; cancer vaccines; immunotherapy; gene therapy; dendritic cells; melanoma; renal cell carcinoma