JOANNA E BURDETTE

Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences.  In 2014, she was promoted to Associate Dean for Research. Her research has helped to develop three-dimensional models of the fallopian tube to define early events responsible for ovarian cancer formation.  She is interested in the use of botanicals as a novel source of compounds that activate progesterone receptor signaling. She is also actively screening natural products for anti-cancer activity with a focus on ovarian cancer. She has been the recipient of the Liz Tilberis Scholar Award from the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund and was named the UIC Rising Star in the basic life sciences in 2013 and the UIC Distinguished Researcher in life sciences in 2020.