Woodward Laboratory

She is deputy director of the MD Anderson Inflammatory Breast Cancer Clinic and Research Program and is dedicated to advancing the radiation treatment and biologic understanding of inflammatory breast cancer through laboratory, translational and clinical research. Nationally, she serves as the liaison between the breast working group and the translational research program in the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group devoted to designing translational endpoints for multi-institutional trials in breast radiation therapy. Specific interests include studying molecular determinants of treatment resistance in breast cancer stem cells and novel treatment of inflammatory breast cancer. Woodward has a strong interest in education and mentoring trainees in both clinical and translational breast cancer research and was honored to receive both the James C Cox and Robert Chamberlain awards for mentoring.