Steffan Nawrocki, PhD

Steffan Nawrocki, PhD, is an associate professor in the Division of Translational and Regenerative Medicine at the Department of Medicine and research director for Translational Medical Oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center. He received his doctorate in biomedical sciences from Houston's University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and conducted his postdoctoral fellowship in experimental cancer therapeutics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. The major focus of Dr. Nawrocki’s laboratory is the evaluation of molecular mechanisms of action of novel experimental cancer therapeutics with an emphasis on targeting protein degradation. He has received several prestigious honors including awards from the International Myeloma Foundation, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, and the Voelcker Foundation.