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University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center

Michigan's Rogel Cancer Center is home to the TMPRSS2-ERG discovery, MI-ONCOSEQ, and pioneering degrader chemistry (Wang).

Chinnaiyan's prostate genomics, Shaomeng Wang's MDM2 and BET degraders, and precision oncology sequencing programmes.

Location
Ann Arbor, MI, US
Type
cancer center · University of Michigan
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
NCI designation
comprehensive
OnCo score
#360 · 19 points (0 Newsweek + 15 NCI + 4 from 2 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Prostate genomics
  • Degrader chemistry
  • Precision oncology

People

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Arul M. Chinnaiyan
Director, Michigan Center for Translational Pathology; S.P. Hicks Professor of Pathology; HHMI Investigator
Prostate cancer genomicsGene fusionsPrecision oncology sequencing

Discovered the TMPRSS2-ERG fusion in prostate cancer and built one of the first clinical sequencing programmes.

Costas A. Lyssiotis
Maisel Research Professor of Oncology
Cancer metabolismPancreatic cancerTumour-stroma metabolic crosstalk

Costas Lyssiotis shows how pancreatic tumours feed off their surrounding cells and how to cut the supply.

Eric R. Fearon
Director, Rogel Cancer Center; Emanuel N. Maisel Professor of Oncology
Colorectal cancer geneticsWnt/APC signallingTumour suppressor genes

Co-author of the Fearon-Vogelstein model of how colorectal cancer develops step by step.

Lori J. Pierce
Professor of Radiation Oncology and Vice Provost, University of Michigan; NRG Oncology investigator; ASCO Past President (2020-2021)
Breast radiotherapyHealth equityRadiation oncology

Lori Pierce is a breast radiation oncologist and ASCO past president focused on equity in cancer care.

Max S. Wicha
Madeline and Sidney Forbes Professor of Oncology; Founding Director, Rogel Cancer Center
Cancer stem cellsBreast cancerStem cell targeting

Max Wicha identified breast cancer stem cells and made them a therapeutic target.

Shaomeng Wang
Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis Professor in Medicine; Director, Rogel Cancer Center Drug Discovery
Medicinal chemistryProtein degradersMDM2 and BET inhibitors

Shaomeng Wang is the medicinal chemist behind some of the first clinical MDM2 inhibitors and PROTAC degraders.

Theodore S. Lawrence
Isadore Lampe Professor of Radiation Oncology
Radiation oncologyRadiosensitisersLiver and pancreatic radiation

Radiation oncologist who developed adaptive liver radiotherapy and radiosensitising drug combinations.

Weiping Zou
Charles B. de Nancrede Professor of Surgery, Immunology, Biology and Pathology; Director, Center of Excellence for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy
Tumour immunologyPD-L1 biologyFerroptosis and immunity

Immunologist who showed PD-L1 on tumours suppresses T cells and linked interferon to ferroptosis.

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