Shared Resource Directors

The Shared Resources at UPMC Hillman Cancer Center include state-of-the-art facilities that provide infrastructure, technology, support, and expertise to enhance basic, translational, and clinical cancer research with a goal to provide outstanding service at reasonable cost. In addition to standard service offerings, most facilities will work with researchers to provide customized procedures as needed. Shared Resource Directors provide expert consultation and, in some cases, may participate as co-investigators on research faculty grants.

Shared Resource Directors

• Riyue (Sunny) Bao, PhD
  Co-Director, Cancer Bioinformatics Services (CBS)
• Tullia Bruno, PhD
  Director, Cytometry Facility (CF); Associate Director, Translational Oncologic Pathology Services (TOPS)
• Uma Chandran, MSIS, PhD
  Co-Director, Cancer Bioinformatics Services (CBS)
• Kathryn Demanelis, PhD
  Associate Director, Population-based Cancer Data and Analytics (PANDA)
• Sawa Ito, MD, PhD
  Director, Advanced Cancer Cellular Therapy (ACCT)
• Jessie R. Nedrow, PhD
  Director, Small Animal Multimodal Imaging and Radiotherapeutics Applications (SAMIRA)
• Yuri Nikiforov, MD, PhD
  Director, Cancer Genomics Facility (CGF)
• Lindsay Sabik, PhD
  Director, Population-based Cancer Data and Analytics (PANDA)
• Aatur Singhi, MD, PhD
  Director, Translational Oncologic Pathology Services (TOPS)
• Hong Wang, PhD
  Director, Biostatistics Facility (BF)
• Simon Watkins, PhD
  Director, Cell and Tissue Imaging Facility (CTIF)
• Bill Zamboni, PhD
  Director, Cancer Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics Facility (CPPF)