Marion Curtis, PhD

Dr. Marion Curtis is currently a postdoctoral scholar in the laboratory of Dr. Ernst Lengyel at the University of Chicago. She received her BA from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN and then went on to obtain her PhD from the University of Chicago in Cancer Biology where her work focused on the role of the receptor tyrosine kinase, c-Met, in ovarian cancer metastasis. Marion’s current research interests include using MS-based quantitative proteomics to study predictors of chemotherapy response and the interplay of cancer cells with the tumor microenvironment. This work has led to the identification of a novel factor which impedes DNA damage repair and could serve as a target for immunotherapy in the treatment of ovarian cancer.