Welcome to the Gilkes Lab

Daniele M. Gilkes is an Assistant Professor in the Oncology Department, under the Breast and Ovarian Cancer Program, at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She earned B.S.ChE and M.S. degrees in the University of Florida. After completing her PhD in Cancer Biology at the University of South Florida, Daniele became a Susan G. Komen Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Gregg Semenza, MD, PhD at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Later, she became a Research Assistant Professor in the lab of Denis Wirtz, PhD in the Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Department at Johns Hopkins University. Daniele opened her lab in 2015, and now focuses on studying the role of the tumor microenvironment, primarily hypoxia and the extracellular matrix, in breast cancer.