Provider Profile:
Melissa Runge-Morris, M.D.

• Hodgkin Lymphoma
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Multiple Myeloma
• Myelodysplasia (MDS)
• Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
• Plasmacytoma

School

• University of Michigan

Residency

• Internal Medicine, Hennepin County Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Fellowships

• Fellowship Hematology-Oncology, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIH Physician Scientist Award, Dept. of Pharmacology, Northwestern University

Awards

• 2006 Wayne State University School of Medicine, Faculty Research Excellence Award
• 2004 Wayne State University School of Medicine, College Teaching Award
• 1987-1992 Physician Scientist Training Award, National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Grant Number: K11 - ES 00170
• 1986-1987 National Institute of Health Neuroscience Toxicology Fellowship, National Institutes of Health Training Grant T32 NS07140, Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University

Professional Memberships

• International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX)
• American Association for Cancer Research (ACCR)
• American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
• American Society of Hematology (ASH) American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

• The Kinetics of Sterol Sulfonation by Sulfotransferases: Implications for Nuclear Receptor Activation, in preparation. Authors: I. Cook, Z. Duniec-Dmuchowski, T.A. Kocarek, M. Runge-Morris and C.N. Falany (2012).
• Site-Directed Mutagenesis of Human Cytosolic Sulfotransferase (SULT)2B1b to Phospho-Mimetic Ser348Asp Results in an Isoform with Increased Catalytic Activity. J. Steroid Biochem. Mol. Bio., 127: 315-323. Authors: E.D. Salman, D. He, M. Runge-Morris, T.A. Kocarek, and C.N. Falany (2011)
• Regulation of SULT1E1 Expression by Confluency of MCF10A Breast Epithelial Cells: Role of the Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptor. J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther., 339: 597-606. Authors: J. Fu, H. Fang, M. Paulsen, M. Ljungman, T.A. Kocarek and M. Runge-Morris (2011)
• Sulfation of 25-Hydroxycholesterol by SULT2B1b Decreases Cellular Lipids via the LXR/SREBP-1c signaling pathway in human aortic endothelial cells. Atherosclerosis 214: 350-356. Authors: Q. Bai, L. Xu, L., G. Kakiyama, M.A. Runge-Morris, P.B. Hylemon, L. Yin, W.M. Pandak, and S. Ren, (2011)
• Expression of Estrogenicity Genes in a Lineage Cell Culture Model of Human Breast Cancer Progression. Breast Cancer Res. Treat., 120: 35-45. Authors: J. Fu, A.M. Weise, J. L. Falany, C.N. Falany, B.J. Thibodeau, F.R.Miller, T.A. Kocarek and M. Runge-Morris (2010)