People

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.

Dae Joong Kim, PhD

Research Scientist
Email: dk2ka@virginia.edu

“My research focuses on the methylation dependent control of tumor blood vessel morphogenesis and tumor immune surveillance. I use a variety of transgenic tumor models and conditional-deletion strategies to study the cross talk between tumor endothelial cells and immune cells.”

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.”

Undergraduates

Songhan Pang

Yuvraj Sethi

Caeley Souksavath

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