Lab Members

Primary Investigator

Jonathan D Licht

Jonathan D Licht M.D.

UF Health Cancer Center Director And The Marshall E. Rinker Senior Chair
Phone: (352) 273-8143

Jonathan D. Licht, M.D., is the director of the University of Florida Health Cancer Center, holding the Marshall E. Rinker, Sr. Chair.

NCI funded for 30 years, Dr. Licht is also Principal Investigator of a Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) Specialized Center of Research. He is an Associate Editor of Oncogene and serves on the editorial boards of Cancer Discovery, Cancer Cell, Cancer Research and Clinical Cancer Research. Dr. Licht is chair of the Taskforce for Hematological Malignancies of AACR and co-chair of the Medical/Scientific Board of the LLS.

Dr. Licht has published over 200 articles, reviews and book chapters and has mentored over 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and 20 faculty members. In 2021 he was the winner of the American Society of Hematology Basic Sciences Mentor Award.


Lab Members

Guya Avshara

Laboratory Technician
Email: guyaavshara@ufl.edu


Richard Bennett

Richard Bennett, Ph.D.

Research Associate Professor
Email: bennettr@ufl.edu


Emilie Bonilla

Laboratory Technician
Email: Emilie.Bonilla@medicine.ufl.edu


Monica Clerio

Animal Care Operations Assistant Manager I
Email: mclerio@ufl.edu


Mansi Dalal, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor
Email: mdalal@ufl.edu


Daphné Dupéré-Richer, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: daphne@ufl.edu


Kanchan Gupta

Postdoctoral Associate
Email: kanchan.gupta@medicine.ufl.edu


Karma Kramer

Laboratory Technician
Email: karmakramer@ufl.edu


Kimberly Pereira

Graduate Assistant
Email: pereira.kimberly@ufl.edu


Katelyn Raburn

Laboratory Manager
Email: katelyn.raburn@ufl.edu


Jixiu Shan, Ph.D.

Associate Scientist
Email: shanjx@ufl.edu


Amin Sobh

Biological Scientist III
Email: asobh@ufl.edu


Other Researchers

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Jason Brant, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics
Email: jobrant@ufl.edu


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Alberto Riva, Ph.D.

Director, ICBR Bioinformatics Core
Email: ariva@ufl.edu


Administrative Staff

mckinsie anderson

McKinsie Anderson, M.B.A.

Director’s Executive Assistant
Email: mckinsieanderson@ufl.edu


Rodolfo Molina

Rodolfo A. Molina

Research Administrator III
Email: rodolfo.molina@medicine.ufl.edu


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Stephanie M. Reed

Administrative Spec III
Email: stephanie.reed@medicine.ufl.edu