Center for Cancer Engineering – Curing Cancer
Through Research in Engineering and Sciences

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Bridging Medical and Engineering Research Fields

The OSUCCC – James Center for Cancer Engineering – Curing Cancer Through Research in Engineering and Sciences (CCE-CURES) program is a collaboration to design, develop and integrate innovative engineering technologies and data analytic approaches with cancer biology, biomechanics and fundamental science. The goal: to enhance cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis and treatment to improve the lives of patients.

Approaching Cancer Research in Innovative Ways

The vision of CCE-CURES is to design, develop and integrate innovative engineering technologies and data analytic approaches to advance the understanding of cancer biology, biomechanics and clinical data. The program offers new training opportunities, high-impact collaborative research, collaborative and cross-disciplinary funding, and technology development and transfer.

The vision of CCE-CURES is to design, develop and integrate innovative engineering technologies and data analytic approa...

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Three Primary Areas of Focus

Our goal is to drive new discoveries that transform cancer care.

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Patient-Specific Responses to Breast Cancer Treatment

Patient-Specific Responses to Breast Cancer Treatment

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Best and Brightest Minds in Cancer Engineering

An integrated campus-wide team of cancer researchers, physicians and engineering experts work together to develop
solutions and technologies that lead to fundamental and clinical discoveries. Learn more about some of our researchers below.

Shamsul Arafin

Shamsul Arafin, PhD

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Dr. Arafin has significant experiences on the design, fabrication and characterization of semiconductor infrared diode lasers, photonic ICs and the associated subsystems.

Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Drug Delivery
Richard Fishel

Richard Fishel, PhD

Cancer Biology and Genetics

Dr. Fishel’s research interests includes DNA repair defects and genomic instability in cancer development, biophysical chemistry of DNA repair and single molecule imaging in vitro and in vivo.

Multimodal and Multiscale Imaging and Detection
Daniel Gallego Perez

Daniel Gallego-Perez, PhD

Biomedical Engineering, General Surgery

Dr. Gallego-Perez's research is focused on engineering novel nanoscale tools for fundamental and translational/applied cancer research.

Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Drug Delivery
Jennifer Leight

Jennifer Leight, PhD

Biomedical Engineering

Dr. Leight's lab is developing technologies which maintain human breast tumor tissue in three-dimensional hydrogels to mimic human disease while simultaneously providing outputs of cell function quickly and easily.

Multimodal and Multiscale Imaging and Detection
Eduardo Reategui

Eduardo Reategui, PhD

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Dr. Reategui's research group focuses on the development of microtechnologies, biomaterials and molecular-imaging methods for high-throughput sorting and molecular profiling of circulating cancer biomarkers.

Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence
Gina Sizemore

Gina Sizemore, PhD

Radiation Oncology

Dr. Sizmore's research integrates in vitro and in vivo modeling of the brain metastatic tumor microenvironment (TME) to provide mechanistic insight into how the brain metastatic TME contributes to breast cancer metastatic progression.

Tissue Engineering, Biomaterials, Biomechanics and Drug Delivery

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