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Andrew C. Dudley, PhD
Professor
Email: acd2g@virginia.edu
Phone: (434)924-7766
Drew completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in Australia where he worked on endothelial cell dysfunction associated with diabetic retinopathy. He was then a post doc and Instructor at Harvard Medical School & Children’s Hospital Boston and a member of the Vascular Biology Program headed by Dr. Judah Folkman. For his post doc with Dr. Michael Klagsbrun, Drew focused on the tumor microenvironment and he carried out studies to determine how endothelial cell dysfunction drives tumor progression. In December 2010, Drew started his own lab at UNC Chapel Hill where he was an Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology. In 2016, he was recruited to the University of Virginia where he is currently a Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cancer Biology and a member of the Emily Couric Cancer Center.
Lab Members
Swetha Anandh, PhD Student
PhD Student
Email: sa8mj@virginia.edu
“I am using scRNAseq to characterize tumor-associated endothelial cells in melanoma. My major focus area is understanding how dysfunctional tumor blood vessels impair anti-tumor immunity.”
Jingwen (Wendy) Hu, PhD student
PhD student
Email: jh5ms@virginia.edu
“I am studying blood vessel heterogeneity in solid tumors and draining lymph nodes to understand how pro-angiogenic factors suppress anti-tumor immunity by regulating cell adhesion molecule expression in endothelial cells.”
Caroline Riedstra, PhD student
PhD student
Email: dxd9hs@virginia.edu
“I am interested in mechanisms of perivascular invasion by cancer cells in the brain and other organ microenvironments. I study how changes in melanoma cell state impacts the motility of melanoma cells along the vasculature.”
Former Lab Members
Dae Kim, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow
Sarah Wang, PhD
Graduate Student
Jamie Null, PhD
Graduate Student
Joan Chang, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
James Dunleavey, PhD
Graduate Student
James McCann, PhD
Graduate Student
Lin Xiao, PhD
Graduate Student
Yu Zhang, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow