Joanna Groden, PhD

Joanna Groden, PhD, is the Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of Illinois Chicago, where she has highlighted cross-campus collaborations and transdisciplinary research initiatives, and Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago. She is a human geneticist and cancer biologist, internationally recognized for her research in determining key genetic causes of colon cancer and other inherited cancers through the identification of human disease genes and their functional characteristics. She was continuously funded by the National Institutes of Health for more than 30 years.