Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Mark Bedford, Ph.D., Professor
mtbedford@mdanderson.org
M.S. (Medical Biochemistry) University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Ph.D. (Developmental Biology) Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard Medical School, Dr. Philip Leder
Sharad Awasthi, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
sawasthi@mdanderson.org
B.Sc. (Chemistry and Botany) Kanpur University, Uttar Pradesh, India
M.S. (Biochemistry) University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Ph.D. (Epigenetics and RNA Biology) Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India
Current Research: Arginine methylation readers and protein arginine methylase inhibitors
Isaiah Mixon, B.S., Research Assistant II
ijmixon@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Biochemistry) University of Houston
Leilei Shi, Ph.D., Instructor
lshi1@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Biological Science) East China Normal University
Ph.D. (Epigenetics) Chinese Academy of Sciences
Yalong Aaron Wang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
ywang68@mdanderson.org
B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China
Ph.D., University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China
Current Research: Identifying new arginine
methylation readers; Arginine methylation in immunology.
Tanner Wright, B.S., Graduate Student
twright3@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Biotechnology) Utah Valley
University, Orem Utah
Current Research: Exploring symmetric
arginine di-methylation in liver cancer.