Director
Leroy T. Canoles Jr. Cancer Research Center

Professor
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Cell Biology

Harry T. Lester Hall 426
651 Colley Avenue
Norfolk, Virginia 23501
Office: (757) 446-5904
Email: SemmesOJ@evms.edu


 Teaching:

  • Biomedical Sciences Program

Education

  • B.S. Auburn University
  • M.S. University of West Florida
  • Ph.D. George Washington University
  • Post Doctoral Fellow - National Institute of Health

Professional Positions

2009-Present

  • Director, Leroy T. Canoles, Jr. Cancer Research Center
    Eastern Virginia Medical School

2005 - Present

  • Professor
    Department of Pathology and Anatomy
    Eastern Virginia Medical School

2004 - Present

  • Professor
    Department of Microbiology & Molecular Cell Biology
    Eastern Virginia Medical School

2001 - 2004

  • Associate Professor
    Department of Microbiology & Molecular Cell Biology
    Eastern Virginia Medical School

1997 - 2001

  • Assistant Professor
    Department of Microbiology
    University of Virginia

1996 - 1997

  • Research Associate
    Department of Pharmacology
    Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

Lab Members

 

Xin(Cindy)Guo
Instructor
guox@evms.edu

  • Ph.D. - The University of Hong Kong,
    School of Medicine - 2000
    Hong Kong, China
 

LiFang Yang
Post-Doc
yanglf@evms.edu

  • M.D. - Peking University Health Science Center - 1998
    Peking, China
  • Ph.D. - Eastern Virginia Medical School - 2010
    Norfolk, Virginia
  Hampus Alexander Anders Engström
Research Associate I
engstrh@evms.edu
  • M.S. - Eastern Virginia Medical School - 2014
    Norfolk, Virginia
 

Vanessa L. Correll
Research Assistant II
correlvl@evms.edu

  • B.S. - Christopher Newport University - 2013
    Newport News, Virginia
  • M.S. Eastern Virginia Medical School - 2015
    Norfolk, Virginia