Faculty & Staff

Faculty

Guillermina (Gigi) Lozano, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Lab website

• Swathi Arur, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Co-Director, Genes and Development Graduate Program
  Lab website
  
  
• Richard R. Behringer, Ph.D.
  Professor
  
  
• Neal G. Copeland, Ph.D.
  Professor in Practice
  
  
• Benoit de Crombrugghe, M.D.
  Professor Emeritus
  
  
• George Eisenhoffer, Jr. Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Lab website
  
  
• Michael Galko, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Director, Genes and Development Graduate Program
  Lab website
  
  
• Andrew Gladden, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Lab website
  
  
• Vicki Huff, Ph.D.
  Professor
  
  
• Nancy A. Jenkins, Ph.D.
  Professor in Practice
  
  
• Ralf Krahe, Ph.D.
  Professor
  
  
• Sadhan Majumder, Ph.D.
  Professor and Deputy Chair
  
  
• Pierre D. McCrea, Ph.D.
  Professor
  Lab website
  
  
• Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Lab website
  
  
• Louise Strong, M.D.
  Professor
  
  
• Bin Wang, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor

Faculty – joint appointments

• Carlos Caulin, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Head & Neck Surgery – Research
  
  
• Simona Colla, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Leukemia - Research
  
  
• Candelaria Gomez-Manzano, M.D.
  Associate Professor
  Neuro-Oncology - Research
  
  
• Lei Li, Ph.D.
  Professor
  Experimental Radiation Oncology
  
  
• Sean Post, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Leukemia – Research

Faculty – adjunct appointments

• Daniel Carson, Ph.D.
  Chair and Professor
  Rice University, Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering
  Houston, TX
  
  
• Malgorzata Kloc-Stepkowska, Ph.D.
  Professor and Associate Research Member
  Houston Methodist Research Institute
  Houston, TX
  
  
• William Mattox, Ph.D.
  Associate Dean of Graduate Education
  U.T. Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
  Houston, TX
  
  
• Rachel K. Miller, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  UT Health Science Center - Houston, Pediatric Research Center
  Houston, TX

Research faculty

• Denada Dibra, Ph.D.
  Instructor
  
  
• Bin Liu, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  
  
• Asha S Multani, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  
  
• Vinod Pant, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  
  
• Jan Parker-Thornburg, Ph.D., M.Ed.
  Associate Professor
  
  
• Sen Pathak, Ph.D., Ph.D.
  Professor-Emeritus
  
  
• Shunbin Xiong, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  
  
• Yun Zhang, Ph.D.
  Instructor
  
  
• Xin Zhou, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor

Staff

Office of the chair

Lisa Gower
Program Manager

Office: S15.8316
Phone: 713-794-1999
Fax: 713-834-6380
Email: lmgower@mdanderson.org

Department administrator

Leah H. Byron
Research Department Administrator
Office: S12.8136B

Phone: 713-834-6361
Fax: 713-834-6318
Email: lharriso@mdanderson.org

Administrative contacts

Zellisa Felder
Executive Assistant for Benoit deCrombrugghe, M.D., Vicki Huff, Ph.D., Pierre McCrea, Ph.D., Asha Multani, Ph.D. and Louise Strong, M.D.
Phone: 713-792-2836
Email: ZLFelder@mdanderson.og

Elva Lopez
Program Coordinator for Ralf Krahe, Ph.D., Bin Liu, Ph.D., Sadhan Majumder, Ph.D., Nicholas Navin, Ph.D.,  Jan Parker-Thornburg, Ph.D., Adriana Paulucci, Erika Thompson and Blaffer Lecture Series
Phone: 713-834-6325
Email: eplopez@mdanderson.org

Lisa Watson

Sr. Administrative Assistant for Swathi Arur, Ph.D., Richard Behringer, Ph.D., George Eisenhoffer, Ph.D., Michael Galko, Ph.D., Andrew Gladden, Ph.D., Elisabeth Lindheim, Research Forum
Phone: 713-563-9818
Email: LMWatson@mdanderson.org

Finance administrative contacts

Robin Martin
Operations Manager
Phone: 713-834-6338
romartin@mdanderson.org

Michael Dang
Accountant II
Phone: 713-834-6286
MMDang@mdanderson.org

Jennifer Weaver
Grant Program Coordinator 
Phone: 713-794-1310
Email: jmweaver@mdanderson.org

Center for Genetics & Genomics contact

Lisa Gower
Program Manager
Phone: 713-794-1999
lmgower@mdanderson.org

Genes and Development Program contact

Elisabeth Lindheim
Program Manager
Phone: 713-834-6352
elindheim@mdanderson.org

Information technology contact

Stan Tsang
Systems Analyst II
Phone: 713-834-6351
STsang@mdanderson.org