Molecular Oncology Faculty & Staff
Faculty
Dihua Yu, M.D., Ph.D.
Department Chair
Hubert L. & Olive Stringer Distinguished Chair in Basic Science
Professor of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Research Interests: Brain metastasis, tumor immune microenvironment, targeted- and immuno-therapies, breast cancer immunoprevention
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Laura Beretta, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Liver Cancer, Cancer Prevention, Microbiome, Lipid Metabolism
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Min Gyu Lee, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Epigenetic Modifiers, Tumorigenesis & Metastasis, Tumor Suppression & Inhibition
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Chunru Lin, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Tumor Microenvironment, Cancer Metabolism, Immunotherapy
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Yuan-Hung Lo, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Interest: 3D Organoid Models, Tumor Heterogeneity, Gastrointestinal Stem Cells, Tumorigenesis Targeted Therapies and Cancer Prevention
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Honami Naora, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Immune & Non-Immune Cell Dynamics in Metastasis, Inflammatory Signaling, Cellular Reprogramming
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Min Sup Song, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: PTEN Biology, Tumor Metabolism, Symbiosis & Cancer
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John Tainer, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: DNA Repair–replication-transcription Interface, Synthetic Lethality, Structure-based Inhibitor Design
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Liuqing Yang, Ph.D.
Professor
Research Interests: Long Noncoding RNA, Cancer Signaling Pathway, Tumor Immune Microenvironment
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Haoqiang Ying, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Research Interests: Cancer Genetics, Cancer Metabolism, Genetically Engineered Mouse Models, Pancreatic Cancer, Soft Tissue Sarcoma
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Research Faculty
Zamal Ahmed, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Hironari Akasaka, Ph.D.
Instructor
Suet Ying Kwan, Ph.D.
Instructor
Beretta Laboratory
Mi Kyung Park, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Song Laboratory
Yutong Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Chi-Lin Tsai, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Yongkun Wei, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Yi Xiao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Jun Yao, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Xiangliang Yuan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Lin Zhang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Research Staff
Tiffany L Calderone, M.B. (ASCP)
Research Lab Manager
Beretta Laboratory
Daniel DeMaster
Research Assistant I
Yimin Duan, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Sara Estrada
Research Assistant I
Beretta Laboratory
Zhenbo Han, M.D., M.S., Ph.D.
Supervisor, Laboratory & Research
Zhou Jiang, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Lin Laboratory
Weidong Wade Jin, M.S.
Coordinator, Research Laboratory
Todd Link, Ph.D.
Sr. Research Scientist
Qing Liu, Ph.D.
Research Investigator
Michael A. Longo, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Matthew Musat
Research Assistant I
Beretta Laboratory
Sarita Namjoshi, M.S.
Sr. Research Assistant
Tina K. Nguyen, B.S.
Sr. Research Assistant
Lin Laboratory and Yang Laboratory
Dean Pan, B.A.
Research Assistant I
Ying Laboratory
Shannon Roberts, B.S.
Research Assistant II
Yohei Saito, Ph.D.
Sr. Research Scientist
Chia-Mei Young
Research Assistant II
Joint and Adjunct Faculty
Joint Faculty
Lee Ellis, M.D., Ph.D.
Boyi Gan, Ph.D.
Don Lynn Gibbons, M.D., Ph.D.
Vidya Gopalakrishnan, Ph.D.
Stephen Yenzen Lai, M.D., Ph.D.
Jinsong Liu, M.D., Ph.D.
Adjunct Faculty
Zhao Wang, Ph.D. (Baylor College of Medicine)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Sharad Awasthi, Ph.D.
Lee Laboratory
Maria Centomo, Ph.D.
Song Laboratory
Naga (Bob) Chinnam, Ph.D.
Tainer Laboratory
Jian Gao, Ph.D.
Lin Laboratory
Luyu Jia
Yu Laboratory
Shahid Khursheed, Ph.D.
Lo Laboratory
Min Liu, Ph.D.
Tainer Laboratory
Minghui Liu, Ph.D.
Ying Laboratory
Witty Tyagi, Ph.D.
Lee Laboratory
Solchan Won
Naora Laboratory
Qingping Xiong, Ph.D.
Yang Laboratory
Zilong Zhao, Ph.D.
Lin Laboratory
Graduate Students
Chaitali Bhadiadra
Yang Laboratory
Drew Ashton Boagni
Yu Laboratory
Yiming Cai
Ying Laboratory
Hao-Nien Chen
Yu Laboratory
Ahmed Emam
Tainer Laboratory
Pengju Gong
Yang Laboratory
Lisa Huang
Yang Laboratory
Phuoc Nguyen
Ying Laboratory
Runze Shen
Tainer Laboratory
Alyssa Shulman
Yu Laboratory
Shao-Ping (Emily) Yang
Yu Laboratory
Wei-Chieh (Pierce) Yu
Lo Laboratory
Administrative Staff (713-792-7477)
Patricia G. Lopez
Department Administrator
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Sherron E. Carouthers
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Jeng Cheng, Ph.D.
Associate Director, Research Planning and Development
jccheng@mdanderson.org
Rasheda Davis
Grant Program Coordinator
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Deborah Henson
Senior Administrative Assistant
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Kevin Joseph
Program Coordinator
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Umesh Karandikar
Grant Program Manager
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Lyhuong L. Le
Financial Analyst
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Raquel Rincon
Accounting Specialist
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Irene Shih
Program Manager
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Vonta Ward
Senior Procurement Specialist
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