Faculty & Staff
Variety is no stranger to the Experimental Therapeutics department and the broad range of research interests that motivate our faculty. The opportunity to discover hypothesis-driven, innovative therapies for the treatment of cancer patients is what inspires our basic scientists to continue their research in the areas of target discovery and validation, drug design and development and pre-clinical and clinical testing.
Primary Faculty
- Rugang Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
The John M. O'Quinn Endowed Chair in Cancer Research - Irfan Asangani, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Robert C. Bast, Jr., M.D.
Professor
Harry Carothers Wiess Distinguished University Chair for Cancer Research - Xi Chen, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
- Simon Eschweiler, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Zhen Fan, M.D.
Professor
- Mark Herzik, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D.
Professor
John Q. Gaines Foundation Professorship for Cancer Research - Guang Peng, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor - Waldemar Priebe, Ph.D.
Professor - Zahid H. Siddik, Ph.D.
Professor - Hojong Yoon, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Sara Zanivan, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Faculty
- Gamze Bildik Elcik, Ph.D.
Instructor
- Izabela Fokt, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Dacheng Fan, Ph.D.
Instructor
- Fernanda Grande Kugeratski, Ph.D.
Instructor - Xue Hao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor - Zhen Lu, M.D.
Professor
Professors Emeriti
- David Farquhar, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - Walter N. Hittelman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
- Robert A. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus - Michael G. Rosenblum, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Joint Appointments
- Elizabeth A. Grimm, Ph.D.
Professor
Melanoma Medical Oncology, Research
- Robert Z. Orlowski, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Lymphoma and Myeloma
Adjunct Faculty
- Martin Pichler, M.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Trainees
- Diego Antelo
Graduate Research Assistant - Shravani Barkund
Graduate Research Assistant - Luca Cecchetto
Graduate Student - Kaixin Cheng
Postdoctoral Fellow - Sean Chin Chan
Postdoctoral Fellow - Hyein Cho
Postdoctoral Fellow - Sarah Choi
College Student - Na Ding
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Yiming Fang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Carlos Flores Suarez
Postdoctoral Fellow - Kedi Huang
College Student - Janardan Nanda Gavade
Postdoctoral Fellow - Venkata Ramakrishna Gujjula
Postdoctoral Fellow - Suyeon Hong
Postdoctoral Fellow - Hugo Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow - Zhouyihan Li
Graduate Research Assistant - Cong Liang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Xiaojin Luan
Postdoctoral Fellow - Ethan Marszalek
Graduate Research Assistant - Jose Martinez
Graduate Research Assistant - Gul Muneer
Postdoctoral Fellow - Thi Hong Minh Nguyen
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Mahrima Parvin
Postdoctoral Fellow - Rishi Patel
Postdoctoral Fellow - Cuipeng Qiu
Postdoctoral Fellow - Lance Schwegman
Graduate Research Assistant - Sherin George Shaji
Postdoctoral Fellow - Mukund Sharma
Postdoctoral Fellow - Shruthi Sriramkumar
Postdoctoral Fellow - Yuluan Tang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Yusuke Toyohara
Postdoctoral Fellow - Michail Tyryshkin
Graduate Research Assistant - Ikram Ullah
Postdoctoral Fellow
- Luis Vega
Graduate Research Assistant - Sharan Venkatesh
Graduate Student (non-UT Health schools)
- Brijesh Kumar Verma
Postdoctoral Fellow - Anh Vuong
Postdoctoral Fellow - Pai Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Siyu Xia
Postdoctoral Fellow - Charles Yu
College Student - Zhongyang Yu
Postdoctoral Fellow - Junyao Zhu
Postdoctoral Fellow - Guangyue Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow - Yubo Zhou
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Staff
- Xueqian Cheng
Research Scientist - Yao Ding
Research Laboratory Manager - Guangan He
Research Scientist - Arumugam Jayakumar
Research Scientist - Nadia Jimenez
Coordinator, Clinical Studies
- Nermin Kahraman
Research Investigator - Sharlene Kohring
Database Coordinator
- Jian Kuang
Sr. Research Scientist - Anita Lee
Sr. Research Assistant - Yang Lu
Supervisor, Laboratory & Research - Qin Luo
Research Scientist
- Weiqun Mao
Research Investigator - Ayumu Matsuoka
Research Scientist
- Van Nguyen
Research Asst II - Sehee Oh
Research Investigator - Songbo Qiu
Research Scientist - Alexandra Sanchez
Coordinator, Clinical Studies - Stanislaw Skora
Research Scientist - Oliver Wang
Research Asst II - Hailing Yang
Sr Research Scientist - Xu Zhang
Research Investigator - Rafal Zielinski
Supervisor, Laboratory & Research
Administrative Professionals
- Ingrid O. Abella
Sr Financial Analyst
- Negar Adib
Program Manager - Jennifer L. Bales
Grant Program Manager
- Gina K. Dimiceli
Administrative Director - Bao Huong Hoang
Department Administrator - April D. Holubar
Associate Director, Res Planning & Dev - Roseann M. Martinez
Operations Manager - Mary L. Patterson
Grant Program Manager - Katherine S. Robinson
Senior Administrative Assistant - Tara Spittler
Senior Administrative Assistant - Grace A. Taupo
Program Manager - DaRonia Taylor
Grant Program Manager
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