Faculty & Staff
George Calin, M.D., Ph.D.
Calin Laboratory
Professor and Chair ad interim
Faculty
Menashe Bar-Eli, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor
- Tumor biology and immunity
- Telomeres in cancer and aging
- Genetically engineered mouse models of cancer and age-related disorders
- Target discovery for cancer and aging therapy
Natividad Robert Fuentes, Ph.D.
Graduate School Faculty Profile | Fuentes Laboratory
Assistant Professor
- Membrane spatial dynamics and cellular signaling
- Cellular architecture of the tumor microenvironment
- Role of environmental factors (diet/exposure) in tumorigenesis
- Hypoxia and immunosuppression
- Functional genomics and the skin epithelia
- The non-coding regulatory landscape of stem cell plasticity
- Mechanistic understanding of squamous cell carcinomas and wound repair
- Molecular insights of aging
Eyal Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Graduate School Faculty Profile | Gottlieb Laboratory
Professor
Vice President, Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Cancer metabolism, oxidative stress and DNA damage response
- Metabolic adaptions in cancer progression
- Metabolic control of fatty liver disease
- Metabolic vulnerabilities as novel cancer therapeutic targets
- Stem cells and glial biology in the central nervous system (CNS)
- Glioma and neurodegenerative diseases
- Demyelinating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis
- Chemotherapy-induced neurological defects
Graduate School Faculty Profile
Professor
- Cancer biology and metastasis
- Tumor microenvironment
- Tissue injury and regeneration
- Biology of exosomes in health and disease
Kathleen McAndrews, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- ECM and mesenchymal cell regulation in cancer progression and tissue regeneration
- Extracellular vesicles/exosomes as modulators of the tumor microenvironment and therapeutic delivery
- Stromal cell heterogeneity driving tumor growth, immune interactions and response to therapy
Luigi Perelli, M.D., Ph.D.
Graduate School Faculty Profile | Perelli Laboratory
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Assistant Professor
- Malignant transformation in sporadic and syndromic kidney cancer
- Genotype-phenotype interplay in cancer evolution
- Evolutionary mechanisms in glioblastoma
- Animal models and genome-tagging technologies for cancer research
- Molecular mechanisms of DNA replication fork stability
- Genome instability gene functions in mitochondria
- Fanconi anemia and hereditary hematological malignancies
- BRCA/p53 collaborations at the DNA replication fork
Shabnam Shalapour, Ph.D.
Graduate School Faculty Profile
Assistant Professor
- Chronic inflammation-induced immunosuppression
- B cells and humoral immunity
- Intrinsic MHC-1 antigen processing and presentation in cancer cells
- Regulation of adaptive immunity by obesity, alcohol, microbiome and aging
Joint Appointments
John A. Tainer, Ph.D.
Professor, Molecular and Cellular Oncology
James P. Allison, Ph.D.
Regental Professor, Immunology