Skip to main content

Prostate and Urologic Cancers

Conducts and supports research on the prevention and early detection of prostate and bladder cancers. Develops and supports prevention trials and evaluation of new agents, surrogate biomarkers, and emerging technologies for identifying premalignant lesions.

On This Page

All Heading 2s will automatically be pulled in to this list.
Do not edit the content on this template.

Major Programs

Staff List

Grid View

Photo	Name, Email, Phone	Room	Group(s)/Office
	Asefa, Mela mela.asefa@nih.gov 240-276-6422	5E328	Program Support Assistant \| Breast and Gynecologic Cancer Program Support Assistant \| Prostate and Urologic Cancer
	House, Margaret, RN, B.S.N. margaret.house@nih.gov 240-276-7047	5E306	Deputy Chief \| Prostate and Urologic Cancer
	Parnes, Howard L., M.D. howard.parnes@nih.gov 240-276-7045	5E302	Chief \| Prostate and Urologic Cancer

Grants

PI Name Sort descending	PI Organization	Title	Grant Number	Program Official
Zhang, Zhen	Johns Hopkins University United States	A multidisciplinary BCC for ovarian cancer early detection: translating discoveries to clinical use with a by-design approach	5U2CCA271891-04	Christos Patriotis, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Zhao, Yingqi	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center United States	Developing methods for advancing the early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma leveraging electronic medical records data	1R01CA289668-01A1	Matthew Young, Ph.D.
Zhao, Hua	University Of Virginia United States	Homologous recombination repair capacity in peripheral blood lymphocytes as a breast cancer risk factor	4U01CA260731-04	Claire Zhu, Ph.D.
Zheng, Yingye	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center United States	Precompetitive Collaboration on Liquid Biopsy for Early Cancer Assessment: Data Management and Coordinating Unit	5U24CA288185-03	Guillermo Marquez, Ph.D.
Zheng, Qin	Johns Hopkins University United States	Determining the function of medium to large diameter sensory neurons in paclitaxel-induced pain via large-scale in vivo DRG imaging	1R01CA291906-01A1	Rachel Altshuler, Ph.D.
Zheng, Yingye	Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center United States	The Early Detection Research Network: Data Management and Coordinating Center	5U24CA086368-25	Guillermo Marquez, Ph.D.
Zhou, Xianghong Jasmine	University Of California Los Angeles United States	The UCLA Center in Early Detection of Liver Cancer	5U01CA230705-08	Sidney Fu, M.D.
Zhou, Xianghong Jasmine	University Of California Los Angeles United States	Detecting and locating cancer for patients with CT-detected lung nodules	4R01CA264864-04	Guillermo Marquez, Ph.D.
Zhou, Xianghong Jasmine	University Of California Los Angeles United States	Multi-cancer early detection using cell-free DNA methylome analysis	5U01CA285010-03	Nicholas Hodges, Ph.D.
Zhu, Yazhen	University Of California Los Angeles United States	Click Chemistry-Mediated Surface Protein Assay for Quantifying Subpopulations of Hepatocellular Carcinoma-associated Extracellular Vesicles	5R01CA277530-03	Matthew Young, Ph.D.
Zhu, Yong	Univ Of Arkansas For Med Scis United States	Explore piRNAs as a novel group of biomarkers for ovarian cancer early detection	1R21CA277412-01A1	Christos Patriotis, Ph.D., M.Sc.
Zhu, Yazhen	University Of California Los Angeles United States	Extracellular Vesicle-Based Digital Scoring Assay for Detecting Early-stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma	5R01CA255727-05	Matthew Young, Ph.D.
Zi, Xiaolin	University Of California-Irvine United States	Nautral products for targeting Skp2 in cancer interception	5UG3CA290368-02	Altaf Mohammed, Ph.D.