Graduate Scholar Program Faculty Mentors
In The News: Dr. James P. Allison wins 2018 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
Congratulations to Dr. James P. Allison, Chair and Professor of Immunology and CPRIT Research Training Program Faculty on winning the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His work on the biology of T cells and the invention of the immune checkpoint blockade to treat cancer has transformed cancer immunotherapy. Dr. Allison serves as a CPRIT Graduate Scholars Program Mentor for Ms. Alexandra Cogdill, Graduate Student in the Immunology and Genomic Medicine Departments at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Congratulations to Dr. Allison for this outstanding achievement!
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, Translationsl 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.
Assistant 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
Filippo Giancotti, M.D., Ph.D.
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
Georgios Karras, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D.
Professor, Pediatricas- Research
Raghu Kalluri, M.D., Ph.D.
Chair, Cancer Biology
Li Ma, Ph.D.
Associate 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.
Assocaite 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, Epigenet & Molecular Carcinogenesis
Giulio Draetta, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, Genomic Medicine
Sr. Vice President, Discovery and Platforms
Chief Academic Officer, ad interim
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.
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Curtis Pickering, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Head & Neck Surgery- Research
Helen Piwnica-Worms, Ph.D.
Professor, Experimental Radiation Oncology
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