Elizabeth Alli, PhD

Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology

Research Interests

DNA Repair
Ovarian Cancer
Breast Cancer
BRCA-1
Tumorigenesis
Precision Oncology

About Me

Research Laboratory

Alli Lab - Investigating tumorigenic mechanisms for purposes of cancer chemoprevention and targeted therapy

Educational Program Involvement

Cancer Biology PhD
Program Research Interest: Cellular defense and metabolism, Aberrant signaling pathways in tumor cells, Cell growth and survival, Molecular cancer epidemiology, Gene-environment interactions, Cancer control

Education: BS, University of Southern California (USC), 1995; MS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2002; PhD, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 2006
Fellowship: Medical Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, 2011
Memberships: American Association for Cancer Research; American Society of Clinical Oncology; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Association of Cancer Research
Positions: Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
Departments and Affiliations: Cancer Biology; Comprehensive Cancer Center; Center for Redox Biology and Medicine

Research

Publications

Correcting errors in the BRCA1 warning system. Liang Y, Dearnaley WJ, Alden NA, Solares MJ, Gilmore BL, Pridham KJ, Varano AC, Sheng Z, Alli E, Kelly DF. DNA Repair (Amst.). 2019 01; 73:120-128.
BRCA1: Beyond double-strand break repair. Alli E, Ford JM. DNA Repair (Amst.). 2015 Aug; 32:165-171.
BRCA1: a movement toward cancer prevention. Alli E, Ford JM. . ; 2(3):e979685.
Therapeutic targeting of BRCA1-mutated breast cancers with agents that activate DNA repair. Alli E, Solow-Cordero D, Casey SC, Ford JM. Cancer Res. 2014 Nov; 74(21):6205-15.
A clinical trial of lovastatin for modification of biomarkers associated with breast cancer risk. Vinayak S, Schwartz EJ, Jensen K, Lipson J, Alli E, McPherson L, Fernandez AM, Sharma VB, Staton A, Mills MA, Schackmann EA, Telli ML, Kardashian A, Ford JM, Kurian AW. Breast Cancer Res. Treat. 2013 Nov; 142(2):389-98.

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Research Interests

BRCA-1
Breast Cancer
Cancer Chemotherapy Prevention
DNA Repair
Experimental Therapeutics
Ovarian Cancer
Oxidative DNA Damage
Precision Oncology
Tumorigenesis

Technology Transfer and Commercialization

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Elizabeth Alli, PhD

Research Interests

About Me

Research Laboratory

Educational Program Involvement