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Tumor Virology
The Tumor Virology Program of the Cancer Center was initated
by Dr. James Alwine in 1993 in an attempt to bring virologists
from different programs and departments within the University
of Pennsylvania together to stimulate interactions and discussions.
An increase in the need for this program became evident with
the more recent discovery that Kaposi's sarcoma associated
herpesvirus (KSHV/HHV-8) was strongly associated with greater
than 50% of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Research
on tumor viruses is linked by studies elucidating the role
of specific viruses as an essential requirement or as a critical
cofacctor in the development of human cancers. Research on
tumor viruses at Penn includes investigators from the Medical
School, Dental School and the Wistar Institute studying the
basic mechanisms of tumorigenesis, clinical implications
of tumor viruses and translational approaches to the development
of therapies for the treatment of virus associated human
cancers.
Tumor Virology Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania
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