Associate Director for Shared Resources

Jay Fox, PhD

As the Cancer Center’s Associate Director for Shared Resources, Jay W. Fox, PhD, offers leadership and guidance to the shared resource directors and faculty directors for scientifically sophisticated and fiscally effective operation of the shared research resources. Additionally, Fox is Director of the School of Medicine Office of Research Core Administration and Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology.

Fox’s laboratory is interested in defining the role the extracellular matrix of the host (organisms and tissues that provide structure and support to the surrounding cell) plays in transformation, tumor development, invasion, and growth and developing therapeutic interventions to disable these activities. Researchers in the Fox Laboratory work primarily in melanoma and breast cancer and have an interest in the molecular structure and risk of women with dense breasts for breast cancer.