Graduate Scholar Program Faculty Mentors
In The News: Dr. Anil Sood is inducted into the National Academy of Medicine
Congratulations to Dr. Anil Sood, Professor of Gynecologic Oncology and Reproductive Medicine, on being inducted into the National Academy of Medicine for his discovery of the mechanistic basis for effects of chronic stress on cancer and the identification of the mechanisms behind paraneoplastic thrombocytosis.
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.
Assistant 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.
Associate Professor, Thoracic-Head & Neck Medical Oncology
Junjie Chen, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Michael Curran, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Immunology
Ronald DePinho, M.D.
Professor, Cancer Biology
Boyi Gan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Michael Galko, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Genetics
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
Georgios Karras, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics- Research
Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Cancer Biology
Li Ma, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Pawel Mazur, Ph.D.
Assistant 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
Shao-Cong Sun, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology
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
M. James You, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Hematopathology
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
Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Genomic Medicine
Sr. Vice President, Discovery and Platforms
Chief Scientific Officer
Andrew Futreal, Ph.D.
Chair, Genomic Medicine
Varsha Gandhi, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Therapeutics
Yejing Ge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Cancer Biology
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
Khandan Keyomarsi, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Marina Konopleva, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Leukemia
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.
Professor, Genetics
Curtis Pickering, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Head & Neck Surgery- Research
Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Stem Cell Tansplant and Cellular Therapy
Anil Sood, M.D.
Professor, Gynecological Oncology & Reproductive Medicine
John Tainer, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular & Cellular Oncology
Laboratory Webpage
David Tweardy, M.D.
Division Head, Internal Medicine- Clinical
Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.
Professor, Immunology
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