Daniele Gilkes, MS, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Oncology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.
She completed her BS in Chemical Engineering and MS in Materials Science from the University of Florida and then spent a brief time in industry. Dr. Gilkes pursued her PhD in Cancer Biology at Moffit Cancer Center and then completed a Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Institute for Genetic Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine focused on the study of breast cancer metastasis.
Dr. Gilkes’ current research focuses on identifying biomarkers and therapeutic strategies that focus on prolonging survival by preventing and treating metastasis. She has identified several hypoxia-inducible genes that are required for breast cancer metastasis in animal models. Her more recent work has focused on understanding the phenotype and gene expression patterns of cells that have been exposed to hypoxia during primary tumor development and then become reoxygenated in the bloodstream and ultimately are successful at metastasizing. The ultimate goal of this work is the identify therapeutic strategies to target these pathways in order to kill metastatic cancer cells.
Dr. Gilkes has been honored with several awards including the NCI Pathway to Independence Award, Susan G. Komen Career Catalyst Award, V Scholar Foundation Award, JHU Career Catalyst Award, and the Director’s Teaching Award in Laboratory-based science. She has served on many grant review panels and has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed articles and two books focused on hypoxia and cancer metastasis.
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