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Dr. Michael Goggins is the Director of the Pancreatic Cancer Early Detection Laboratory. Dr. Goggins is currently an Associate Professro Professor of Pathology, Medicine, and Oncology. He is a Gastroenterologist and molecular biologist. He obtained his medical degree in 1988 from the Trinity College Dublin. He did his Internal Medicine residency and fellowship in Gastroenterology in St. James' hospital, Dublin. He came to Johns Hopkins in 1995 as a research fellow to join Dr. Scott Kern's pancreas cancer research laboratory at Johns Hopkins and opened the early detection laboratory in February of 1999.
Carmelle (Curtis) Rogers, PhD, is a
gastrointestinal pathology fellow. She received her PhD in biochemistry
from Kansas State University. She is interested in the genetics of the
Faconi anemia genes in patients with familial pancreatic cancer. Since
genes can be silenced by methylation of their CpG islands, Dr. Rogers is
also involved in finding diagnostic markers by methylation analysis of
candidate tumor suppressor genes.