
PCCR Team
The Purdue Center for Cancer Research (PCCR) leaders work together with advisory groups to enhance and expand the foundational strengths of the center. PCCR is focused on promoting basic discovery, facilitating transdisciplinary collaborative research, improving the drug discovery pipeline and enhancing the movement of discoveries toward application. Our leadership builds on the center’s core strengths and enables us to drive research toward solutions of major cancer issues.
PCCR’s Executive Committee, comprised of senior leadership and research program leaders, have dedicated their careers to discovering a cure. They drive PCCR’s mission and research, meeting monthly to review research progress, set goals and track results.
Senior Leadership
Timothy L. Ratliff, PhD
Robert Wallace Miller Director
Distinguished Professor, Comparative Pathobiology
Andrew Mesecar, PhD
Deputy Director
Joseph Ogas, PhD
Associate Director of Cancer Education and Career Enhancement
Min Zhang, MD, Phd, PhD
Associate Director of Data Science
Douglas Cuttell, MS, MBA
Managing Director
Executive Committee
Cell Identity and Signaling
Chang-Deng Hu, MD, PhD
Program Co-Leader
Ourania Andrisani, PhD
Program Co-Leader
Drug Delivery and Molecular Sensing
Yoon Yeo, PhD
Program Co-Leader
Bumsoo Han, PhD
Program Co-Leader
Targets, Structures and Drugs
John Tesmer, PhD
Program Co-Leader
Mingji Dai, PhD
Program Co-Leader
Deborah Knapp, MS, DVM
Program Co-Leader