Lab Members
Georgios Karras, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar
gkarras@mdanderson.org
Research interests: "Roles of Hsp90 in aging; molecular underpinnings of robustness to genetic and environmental perturbations; mechanisms of stress-induced genome instability in cancer evolution; functional genomics; biochemistry; cancer biology; quantitative genetics."
Research Staff
Beryl John
Research Lab Coordinator
BCJohn@mdanderson.org
Natalia Condic
Research Assistant II
njcondic@mdanderson.org
Patricia Montes
Research Assistant I
pmontes@mdanderson.org
Postdoctoral Fellows
Brant Gracia, Ph.D.
BRGracia@mdanderson.org
"Uncovering the principles of HSP90-mediated protein fate control"
Tin Pham, Ph.D.
TCPham1@mdanderson.org
"Investigating HSP90 roles in drug resistant cancer"
College Students
Morike Ayodeji
Rice University
meayodeji@mdanderson.org
Zoe Wang
Rice University
ZYWang@mdanderson.org
Alumni
Nejla Ozirmak Lermi, M.S.
Research Assistant II, 2021-2022
New position: Department of Bioinformatics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Hatim Amiji
Research Technician, 2020-2021
Undergrad student, 2019-2020
Rice University, Biological Sciences
New position: Medical Student, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine
Melody Mazon
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018-2021
Upasna Thapar
Postdoc, 2019-2020
New position: Medical Writer at Envision Pharma
Youssef Sabha
Research Assistant I, 2018-2020
New Position: Graduate Student, Rutgers University, Multidisciplinary PhD Program in Biomedical Sciences
Dipak Patel
Research Assistant I, 2018-2020
New Position: Graduate Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program
Anna Tanaka
Research Technician, 2019-2020
New Position: Medical Student, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Gabriela Lang Pedro de Costa
Research Technician, 2019-2020
Silas Amarell
Research Assistant II, 2019
New position: Senior Research Associate at Roche
College Students
Lauren Kearns
Volunteer, Summer 2022
Texas A&M University
Priya Trakru
Undergrad Student, 2020-2021
Rice University, Biological Sciences
Selena Ding
2020 & 2021 CPRIT-CURE Summer Research Program, 2020-2021
University of California Berkeley, Molecular Cell Biology/Developmental Genetics
Lily Didcock
Undergrad Student, 2020-2021
Rice University, Bioengineering
Matthew Yonas
Undergrad Student, 2020-2021
Rice University, Biological Sciences
Annette Jones
Undergrad Student, 2020-2021
Rice University, Chemistry
Xing-Han Zhang
2020 CPRIT-CURE Summer Research Program
Texas A&M University
Anvita Kandru
2019, Rice University
Leenah Abojaib
2019, Rice University
Kian Behmard
2019 CPRIT-CURE Summer Research Program
Emory University
High School Students
Sara Anees
Volunteer, Lone Star College, summer 2022
Lishore Kumar
Volunteer, Tomball Memorial High School, summer 2022
Nikitha Kota
Volunteer, Carnegie Vanguard High School, 2021-2022
2022 Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation High School Summer Program in Biomedical Sciences
Current position: Rice University
Isabel Qin
Volunteer, Hamilton High School, Chandler, AZ, 2022