Dr. Angie Rizzino is a Professor at the Eppley
Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases at the University of
Nebraska Medical Center. He received his Ph.D. at the State University of New
York at Stony Brook in 1974. He has received a Distinguished Teaching Award,
the Outstanding Graduate Student Mentor Award twice, and a UNMC Distinguished
Scientist Award. His main research interests include SOX2, gene transcription,
cancer stem cells, and cancer.
Dr. Grinu Mathew is an Assistant Professor at the
Eppley Institute. She received her BE in biotechnology at Anna University,
India, a Master’s in cancer therapeutics at Roswell Park Cancer Institute/SUNY
Buffalo, New York, and a Ph.D. in biomedical science at the University of
Sheffield, UK. She is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research,
the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Society for Cell Biology, and
the Society for Basic Urological Research. Her professional interests include leveraging
functional genomics and preclinical models to decode cancer metastasis, with a focus
on prostate and skin cancer, cellular plasticity in cancer and therapy
resistance, tumor microenvironment, and mechanisms of whole genome duplication
in cancer.
