Jonathan Licht, PhD
Professor and Chief, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Associate Director, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center
To contact Dr. Licht:
303 E Superior, 5-123
Chicago, IL 60611
e-mail: j-licht@northwestern.edu
Dr. Licht's website
Research Interests:
Prior to joining the Cancer Center, Dr. Licht was the Chief of the Division
of Hematology/Oncology at the Mount. Sinai School of Medicine in New York.
He is a graduate of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
and was a resident at Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He did
his fellowship training in Medical Oncology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Understanding aberrant transcriptional repression as a cause of hematological
malignancy, including acute promyelocytic leukemia and large cell lymphoma
is the broad goal of Dr. Licht's research program, and he is utilizing small
molecules and peptide interference strategies to reverse this repression.
He also studies kidney development and signal transduction as an outgrowth
of studies of the WT1 tumor suppressor.
Dr. Licht was a recipient of a Leukemia Society Scholar Award and currently holds a Burroughs-Wellcome Clinical Scientist Award in Translational Research. He is a Councilor of the American Society of Clinical Investigation and a member of the Association of American Physicians. Dr. Licht is a charter member of the NIH Cancer Molecular Pathology Study section and has served on American Cancer Society and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society review panels.