Leadership
Director
Joann B. Sweasy, PhD
Robert F. and Myrna L. Krohn Chair in Cancer Research
Director, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Director, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Professor, Eppley Institute
Research focus: DNA repair
Associate Directors
Michael (Tony) A. Hollingsworth, PhD
Hugh & Jane Hunt Chair in Cancer Research, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Associate Director for Basic Research, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Research focus: Pancreatic cancer biochemistry, diagnostics, and treatments (including immunotherapies)
Joyce Solheim, PhD
Professor, UNMC Eppley Institute for Research in Cancer and Allied Diseases
Director, IGPBS-Cancer Research Doctoral Program, Cancer Research M.S. Program, and Eppley Summer Undergraduate Research Program
Associate Director for Training and Education, Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
Research focus: Mechanisms regulating the immune response to tumors and infectious pathogens, and development of new immunotherapies
