Jane Churpek
Credentials: Medicine Department
Position title: Genetics of blood disorder and cancer predisposition
Email: jchurpek@wisc.edu
Phone: 608-890-4536
Address:
1111 Highland Avenue
WIMR Room 4057
Madison, WI 53705
LAB WEBSITE:
https://wibloodcancer.wisc.edu/jane-e-churpek/
FOCUS GROUPS:
Cancer Biology
RESEARCH DESCRIPTION:
The Churpek laboratory’s major research focus is to understand early events in cancer and bone marrow failure initiation and how endogenous and exogenous exposures interact with inherited genetics to make some individuals at particularly high risk for these diseases. Our work uses family- and population-based human samples to discover novel rare inherited risk factors for understudied cancer and blood disorders and mouse and cellular model systems to determine mechanism. Our ultimate goal is to discover targetable pathways or other strategies for prevention and translate these back to the clinic.
ALSO A TRAINER IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:
Cancer Biology, Cellular and Molecular Pathology