Panagiotis Z. Anastasiadis PhD

Panos Z. Anastasiadis, PhD, is professor of cancer biology in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and consultant in the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center. Dr. Anastasiadis currently serves as chair of Mayo Clinic's enterprise-wide Department of Cancer Biology. He is also co-director of the Cell Biology program of the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center, member of the executive committee for the Mayo Clinic Center for Biomedical Discovery, and member of the executive committee for biomarker discovery at the Mayo Clinic Center for Individualized Medicine.

His research interests are focused on signaling events that regulate cell-cell adhesion or cell migration/invasion and transformed cell growth. His expertise includes cell-cell adhesion signaling, regulation of Rho GTPases during cell adhesion and/or migration, as well as the establishment of cell polarity in both adherent and migrating cells. Additionally, his lab uses organotypic 3D cultures, genomics, proteomics and antibody-based methodologies as a means of identifying oncogenic pathways that are activated in individual patient's tumors and can be targeted for therapy on an individualized basis. He has served as a member of the Tumor Progression and Metastasis NIH study section, and recently as Chair of the Neural Regulation of Cancer NIH study section.