GI Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE)

The Gastrointestinal (GI) Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) is an $11.3 million research grant awarded to the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center (Case CCC) to establish a SPORE in GI cancers. Researchers from Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals, and Cleveland Clinic鈥攁ll members of the cancer center consortium鈥攃ollaborate in the research effort.

For more information, please visit the  or contact GI SPORE Administrator Lopa Das at [email protected].

SPORE Faculty

Sanford D. Markowitz, MD, PhD, SPORE Principal Investigator
Co-Leader, Project 1
Director, Core A
Professor, Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology
[email protected]

Amitabh Chak, MD, MS
Co-Leader, Project 4
Professor, Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
[email protected]

Pingfu Fu, PhD
Director, Core C
Professor, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
[email protected]

Sudha K. Iyengar, PhD
Director, Core C
Professor and Vice Chair for Research, Population and Quantitative Health Sciences
[email protected]

Thomas LaFramboise, PhD
Director, Core C
Associate Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences
[email protected]

Zhenghe John Wang, PhD
Co-Leader, Project 3
Professor, Genetics and Genome Sciences
[email protected]

Joseph E. Willis, MD
Co-Leader, Project 3
Director, Core B
Professor, Pathology
[email protected]

Contact

Lopa Das, PhD
GI SPORE Administrator
[email protected]
216.368.1976