CENTER for MOLECULAR MEDICINE & GENETICS Wayne State University School of Medicine

Collaborative Projects: "Human papillomavirus in head and neck cancers," John Ensley, M.D., internal medicine, hematology-oncology; "Identification of tumor suppressor genes in ovarian cancer; expression of T-Cell receptor usage in cervical cancer; Role of virus in ovarian cancer," Adnan Munkarah, M.D., obstetrics-gynecology; "Association between clinical course of aids and Class II HLA," Jack Sobel, M.D. and Paula Shuman, M.D., internal medicine, infectious diseases.

Representative Publications

Gregoire, L., Lawrence, W.D., Kukuruga, D., Eisenbrey, A.E., Lancaster, W.D. 1994. Association between HLA-DQB1 and increased risk for cervical cancer in African-American women. Int. J. Cancer 57:504-507.

Lancaster, W.D., Campione-Picarrdo, J. 1997. Viral agents. In: Encyclopedia of Cancer (Bertino, J.R., ed),. Academic Press, New York, pp. 1969-1982.

Gregoire, L., Cubilla, A.L., Reuter, V.E., Haas, G., Lancaster, W.D. 1995. Preferential association of human papillomavirus with high-grade histologic variants of penile-invasive squamous cell carcinoma. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 87:1705-1709.

Ruffin, M.T., Ogaily, M.S., Johnston, C.M., Gregoire, L., Lancaster, W.D., Brenner, D.E. 1995. Surrogate endpoint biomarkers for cervical cancer chemoprevention trials. J. Cell. Biochem. Supplement 23:113-124.