Graduate Scholar Program Faculty Mentors
In The News: Drs. Cole-Bergmann, Curran and Ge awarded the Andrew Sabin Fellowship Award
Congratulations to Drs. Francesca Cole-Bergmann, Michael Curran and Yejing Ge on receipt of the 2021 MD Anderson Andrew Sabin Famly Fellowship Award.
The CPRIT Graduate Scholars Program is open to all MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School students who are post-candidacy and directly supervised by an MD Anderson Cancer Center appointed faculty mentor. If student is not directly supervised by a CPRIT Faculty Mentor (listed below), one may be recruited to serve on the student's supervisory committee.
CPRIT Graduate Scholar Faculty Mentors serve as direct supervisors or as co-mentors for CPRIT Graduate Scholars students. CPRIT Faculty Mentors participate in all aspects of the CPRIT Research Training Program, including formal instruction, supervision of Ph.D. dissertation research, and CPRIT journal clubs and conferences.
James Allison, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Immunology
Director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Swathi Arur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics
Robert
C. Bast, M.D.
Vice President, Translational Research
Laura
Beretta, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular &
Cellular Oncology
Kristy
Brock, Ph.D.
Professor, Imaging Physics- Research
Lauren Byers, M.D.
Professor, Thoracic-Head & Neck Medical Oncology
Junjie Chen, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Immunology
Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Genomic Medicine
Sr. Vice President, Discovery and Platforms
Chief Scientific Officer
Michael Galko, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Varsha Gandhi, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Therapeutics
Matthew Gubin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Immunology
G.
Traver Hart, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor,
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Rebecca Howell, Ph.D.
Professor, Radiation Physics- Patient Care
Philip Jones, Ph.D.
Vice President, Therapeutics Discovery
Georgios Karras, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics- Research
Greg Lizee, Ph.D.
Professor, Melanoma Medical Oncology- Research
Anirban Maitra, M.B.B.S.
Professor, Pathology
Florencia McAllister, M.D.
Associate Professor, Clinical Cancer Prevention
Seyed Moghaddam, M.D.
Associate Professor, Pulmonary Medicine- Research
Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
Chair, Systems Biology
Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Stem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapy
Anil Sood, M.D.
Professor, Gynecological Oncology & Reproductive Medicine
Cullen Taniguchi, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor, GI Radiation Oncology
Jennifer Wargo, Ph.D.
Professor, Surgical Oncology
Richard Wood, Ph.D.
Professor, Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis
Cassian Yee, M.D.
Professor, Melanoma Medical Oncology & Immunology Departments
Director, Solid Tumor Cell Therapy Department
Dihua Yu, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Michael
Andreeff, M.D.,Ph.D.
Professor, Leukemia
James Bankson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Imaging Physics
Pratip
Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Cancer
Systems Imaging
Powel
Brown, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Clinical Cancer Prevention
George Calin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Translational Molecular Pathology
Francesca Cole Bergemann, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis
Ronald DePinho, M.D.
Professor, Cancer Biology
Andrew Futreal, Ph.D.
Chair, Genomic Medicine
Boyi Gan, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Yejing Ge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
Theresa Guise, M.D.
Professor, Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders
John Hazle, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Imaging Physics
Faye
Johnson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Thoracic-
Head & Neck Medical Oncology
Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Cancer Biology
Khandan Keyomarsi, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Leukemia
Li Ma, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Pawel Mazur, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Pierre McCrea, Ph.D.
Professor, Genetics
Jeffrey Molldrem, M.D.
Chair Ad Interim, Hematopoietic Biology & Malignancy
Roza Nurieva, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Immunology
David Piwnica-Worms, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Cancer Systems Imaging
Sean Post, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Leukemia- Research
Paul Scheet, Ph.D.
Chair, Epidemiology
John Tainer, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular & Cellular Oncology
David Tweardy, M.D.
Division Head, Internal Medicine- Clinical
Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology
M. James You, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Hematopathology