Dr. Kay-Uwe Wagner is a Professor in the Department of Oncology at Wayne State University and the Lloyd and Marilyn Smith Endowed Chair for Breast Cancer Research. He leads the Tumor Biology and Microenvironment Program at the NCI-designated Comprehensive Karmanos Cancer Center in Detroit, MI. He is internationally recognized for his research in mammary gland biology, breast and pancreatic cancer, and the generation of unique genetically engineered models. He received his Ph.D. degree in Animal Genetics from the University of Halle-Wittenberg in Germany in 1995 and completed his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD, from 1995 to 2000. He received several honors and awards, including the 2022 Drs. Anthony and Joyce Danielski Kales Endowed Faculty Award for Innovative Cancer Researcher for his role as the principal investigator of a multi-institutional research team that identified the cellular origin of a specific triple-negative breast cancer subtype called claudin-low. He has authored over 148 publications with total citations of 10,835 and an h-index of 53 (Scopus).