Rate My Professor Leanne Woods-Burnham

Leanne Woods-Burnham, Ph.D., serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Physiology from Loma Linda University School of Medicine, a Bachelor of Science in Biology from The University of Akron, and completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Prostate Cancer at City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her academic training and research experience at Loma Linda University and City of Hope have equipped her with expertise in translational prostate cancer research. Dr. Woods-Burnham's laboratory investigates biological determinants of prostate cancer tumor aggressiveness and worse survival outcomes in Black men, with a focus on the effects of HER2/ERBB2 overexpression on cellular function, clinical features in patients, treatment response, and survival outcomes. She seeks to identify genetic variations and multiomic signatures associated with HER2/ERBB2 amplification and overexpression. These projects, aimed at developing precision medicine therapeutic strategies to improve survival in incurable disease stages and reduce lethal prostate cancer, are funded by the Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Research Program, Prostate Cancer Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Georgia CTSA.