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Cancer Prevention & Control Program
Colloquium Series
Celebrating 10 Years of Research
HPV-Mediated Carcinogenesis,
In Vivi and In Vitro
Friday
October
11
10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Dr. Lucia Pirisi-Creek
Discovery 1 Building
Room 140
915 Greene Street
Professor
Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Faculty Profile
Lucia Pirisi-Creek is Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology at the University of South Carolina School
of Medicine and Program Director of the SC IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (SC INBRE). Her research
focuses on the basic mechanisms of HPV-mediated transformation and the origins of cervical and head and neck cancer.
She has mentored numerous students in research, and junior faculty members in her department and across SC. She is
author/co-author of 64 publications and leader/co-leader of two research projects in a NIMHD collaborative center grant
at USC and Claflin that addresses health disparities in HIV and HPV-mediated diseases.
The University of South Carolina is an equal opportunity institution.