Keith C. Ellis, Ph.D.
Massey Cancer Center research program membership
Developmental Therapeutics
Department affiliations
Associate Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmacy
Education
PhD, University of Virginia (2004)
Research description
The Ellis Lab focuses on early-stage lead discovery and drug development for multiple types of solid-tumor cancers. The lab uses medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, synthetic chemistry, and pharmacology techniques to study and discover/develop drugs for multiple types of molecular targets including kinases, transcriptional coregulators, and phosphatases.
Disease focus of research
Breast, Ovarian, Colorectal, Pancreatic
Research keywords
Cancer therapy,Cell signaling,Chemical biology,Drug discovery,Epigenetics,Molecular medicine,Signal transduction,Targeted therapies,Translational science
Published research (during tenure as a Massey Cancer Center member)
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