Faculty & Staff
Faculty
- Peter Grace, Ph.D., Chair Ad Interim, Associate Professor
- Chris Sidey-Gibbons, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Chair
- Robert Dantzer, Ph.D., D.V.M., Professor
- Xin Shelley Wang, M.D., M.P.H., Professor
- Goldy C. George, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Andrew Shepherd, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Yuan Pan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
- Michael Lacagnina, Ph.D., Instructor
- Mona Jomaa Kamal, M.D., Ph.D, Instructor
Joint Appointments
- Raymond Young-Jin Cho, M.D., Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Patrick M. Dougherty, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Pain Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
- Christopher P. Fagundes, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rice University, Houston
- Sudhakar Selvaraj, M.B.B.S., D.Phil., MRCPsych, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
- Tamara Lacourt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Field Operations Staff
- Grace Appleton, B.S., Senior Coordinator, Research Data
- Elizabeth Gonzalez, MBBCH, Coordinator, Research Data
- Donna Malveaux, Senior Coordinator, Clinical Studies
- Laila Noor, M.S., M.D., Supervisor, Clinical Studies
Data Operations Staff
- Shu-En (Annie) Shen, M.S., Data Analyst
Grant/Protocol Operations Staff
- Judy A. Colvin, Grant Program Manager
- Angele K. Saleeba, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., Senior Coordinator, Clinical Research Program
Administrative Operations Staff
- Miracle Amaugwu, M.B.A., Administrative Assistant
- Sharlet A. Gordon, Senior Administrative Assistant
- Mary A. Herrera, Administrative Coordinator
- Carrie L. Howard, M.A., M.B.A., Medicine Department Administrator
- Darrick D. Jackson, M.B.A., Executive Assistant
- Lori F. Smith, MHCM, Administrative Director,
- Kristin L. Van Houten, Program Manager, Internal Medicine (Symptom Assessment Tools)
- Birute (Bi) Ziemiene, M.B.A., Office Manager
Neuroimmunology Laboratories Staff
- Benjamin Aghoghowvia, Ph.D., Research Scientist
- Sama A. Alnassiry, B.S., Research Assistant I
- Nabila Boukelmoune, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Angela Casaril, Ph.D., Sr. Research Scientist
- Rafael Cazuza, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Brandon Chelette, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Fisher Cherry, B.S., Research Assistant II
- Chinenye (Lucy) Chidomere, B.S., Research Assistant I
- Ibdanelo (Danelo) Cortez, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Caitlyn Gaffney, M.S., Senior Research Assistant
- Rachelle Garrity, B.S., Research Assistant II
- Anamaria Grieco, College Student
- Areeful Haque, Ph.D., Research Scientist
- Khushboo Irshad, Ph.D., Research Scientist
- Tasneem Islam, College Student
- Jazzmine Junigan, B.S., Research Assistant II
- Khalil Kasm, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Eric Lee, College Student
- Jiahe (Cloris) Li, Ph.D., Research Scientist
- Chun-Yen (Jim) Lin, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Sheng-Chieh (Jay) Lu, Ph.D., Computational Scientist
- Rajasekaran Mahalingam, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist
- James (Jim) Nichols, D.V.M., Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Syed Mehdi, B.S., Research Assistant I
- Hoang Vu Pham, M.S., Research Assistant II
- Sabrina Portilla, College Student
- Mohd Sami Ur Rasheed, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- David Ruiz, B.S., Research Scientist I
- Anand Singh, Ph.D., Research Scientist
- Karen Valadez, B.S., Research Assistant I
- Kendal Willcox, M.S., Senior Research Assistant
- Cai Xu, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
- Sever Zagrai, B.S., Research Assistant I
- Jixiang Zhang, Ph.D., Research Scientist
- Younus Zuberi, B.S., Research Assistant I
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