Lab Members

Andy Futreal, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Chair, Genomic Medicine
Chair ad interim, Systems Biology
Professor, Genomic Medicine

Sabitha Prabhakaran, Ph.D.
Scientific Manager

Kadir Akdemir, Ph.D.
Instructor
Ph.D., UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Originally from: Siirt, Turkey
Research Interests:

• 3D chromatin organization
• Genomic instability
• Somatic mutational processes

Joshua Baguley, M.S.
Research Assistant II

Hannah C. Beird, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D., The University of Texas-GSBS
Originally from: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Research Interests:

• Multi-omics profiling of rare cancers
• Genomic bases for response and resistance to cancer therapies
• Germline predisposition to cancer

Marcus Coyle, M.H.A.
Senior Research Assistant

Jennifer Goldstein, M.D.
Clinical Specialist
M.D., George Washington University
Currently completing Ph.D. at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Originally from: Los Angeles, CA
Research interests:

• Familial pancreatic cancer
• Pancreatic cancer novel therapeutics and resistance
• Functional genomics

Curtis Gumbs
Scientific Manager

Latasha Little
Laboratory Manager
B.S., North Carolina State University
Originally from: Hoffman, North Carolina

Christigale Mandapat
Senior Research Assistant
B.S., St. Edward’s University
Originally from: Beaumont, Texas

Akash Mitra
Graduate Research Assistant – GSBS
Ph.D. Candidate in Quantitative Sciences, Bioinformatics
B.S., Rutgers University
Originally from: Calcutta, India
Research Interests:

• Spatial intratumor heterogeneity
• Determinants of response to immunotherapy
• Molecular characterization of the tumor microenvironment
• Biomarkers of vulnerability
• Molecular determinants of metastasis

Rebecca Thornton
Research Investigator
Originally from: Texas
Research Interests: Technical aspects of NGS