Danny N. Dhanasekaran BSc, MSc, PhD

Danny N. Dhanasekaran, Ph.D., Professor of Cell Biology, Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation Chair in Cancer Research, Director of the Center for Basic Cancer Research, and Deputy Director for Basic Research at the Stephenson Cancer Center at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK. Dr. Dhanasekaran has a long track record of cancer research, which is well funded by NCI. Before moving to OUHSC in 2009, Dr. Dhanasekaran was on the faculty of the Fels Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Biology at the Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for 17 years. His major research focus has been to define oncogenic signaling pathways involved in cancer cell proliferation and metastasis. He has made major contributions in describing the role the gep oncogenes, defined by the activated mutants of the alpha subunits of G12 and G13, in the regulation of cell proliferation, transformation, and metastasis