Surgical Oncologist
University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center
Christina V. Angeles, MD, FACS, FSSO is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, Dermatology and Cancer Biology at the University of Michigan in the Division of Surgical Oncology. Dr. Angeles is board-certified in both General Surgery and Complex General Surgical Oncology. As a surgical oncologist, her clinical practice encompasses caring for patients with soft tissue cancers including sarcoma, melanoma, and non-melanoma cutaneous malignancies. She is the Director of Regional Cancer Therapies and the Director of the Sarcoma Research Working Group at the UM Rogel Cancer Center. Her laboratory focuses on the immune microenvironment of melanoma and sarcoma, specifically investigating the role of resident memory T cells in providing durable cancer immunity. Using newfound knowledge in melanoma, her laboratory is investigating the immune biology of STS in an immunocompetent liposarcoma mouse model in parallel with human sarcoma tissue biobanking with immune characterization. The goal is to identify novel targets for immunotherapy development, to ultimately lead to more precise, mechanism driven immunotherapy clinical trial design for both melanoma and sarcoma patients.
