People

Meet the lab.

We are an interdisciplinary team building live-cell tissue models, quantitative imaging platforms, and computational approaches to understand tumor ecosystems in motion.

Davies Cancer Lab group photo
Leadership

Lead investigators

The lab connects tumor biology, live-cell tissue imaging, signaling dynamics, and data-driven physical modeling.

Alexander Davies

Associate Professor · Knight Cancer Institute, Division of Oncological Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Knight Cancer Precision Biofabrication Hub, Oregon Health & Science University

Alexander Davies, DVM, PhD

Alex leads the Davies Cancer Lab’s work on tumor ecosystems: how cancer cells, host tissues, extracellular matrix, signaling networks, and therapy converge to shape cell state, fate, progression, and drug response.

Jeremy Copperman

Associate Scientist · Knight Cancer Institute, Oregon Health & Science University

Jeremy Copperman, PhD

Jeremy develops computational and statistical biophysics approaches for extracting predictive rules from live-cell data, linking single-cell trajectories, tissue context, signaling, and tumor–microenvironment dynamics.

Team

Team members

Short bios are placeholders for now and can be filled as each person approves their page text.

Carol Halsey

Lab manager

Carol Halsey

Profile information to come.

Austin Wright, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

Austin Wright, PhD

Profile information to come.

Christian Ross

Graduate Student

Christian Ross

Profile information to come.

Francis Anderson, MS

Research Associate

Francis Anderson, MS

Profile information to come.

Emma Wolcott

Graduate Student

Emma Wolcott

Profile information to come.

Hugo Cros, MS

Computational Biologist

Hugo Cros, MS

Profile information to come.

Rawan Makkawi

Graduate Student

Rawan Makkawi

Profile information to come. Current work is connected to tumor-host signaling, ex vivo tissue models, and therapy response dynamics.

Vaibhav Murthy

Graduate Student

Vaibhav Murthy

Profile information to come. Current work is connected to SITE, live-cell imaging, and tumor–microenvironment modeling.

Profiles for additional trainees, staff, collaborators, and alumni will be added as photos and approved bios become available.

Want to work with us? See the Contact page for collaboration and joining information.
Explore our research. Visit the Research page for tumor ecosystem, SITE/LungSITE, osteosarcoma, and computational dynamics projects.
Explore tools and resources. Visit CancerDynamics.org for software, models, publications, and public materials.