Dr. Erin Dickerson received her PhD in biochemistry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1997. She then spent several years at the School of Veterinary Medicine in Madison and the Georgia Institute of Technology developing targeted drug approaches to treat cancer. Dr. Dickerson returned to the upper Midwest in 2009 and joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota and the Masonic Cancer Center. She has developed a research program devoted to studying canine hemangiosarcoma, and her group is working on new approaches to treat this disease.