Lab Members
Seong-Woo Bae
Postdoctoral Fellow
SBae2@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D. | Seoul National University | Seoul, South Korea
Research Interests: Incorporating genomics into cancer imaging research using patient-derived xenograft (PDX) or organoid models
Ryan P. Coll
Postdoctoral Fellow
RPColl@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D in Chemistry |Texas A&M University | College Station, Texas
B.S. in Chemistry | Wake Forest University | Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Research Interests: Radiochemistry / Radiometal coordination for theranostic development
Karen B. Cotton
Program Director, Diagnostic Imaging
KBCotton@MDAnderson.org
M.S. in Sociology | Sam Houston State University | Huntsville, Texas
M.A. in Counseling Prairie View A&M University | Prairie View, Texas
Research Interests: Sociology
Dimitra Georgiou
Laboratory Coordinator
DKGeorgiou@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | University of Houston | Houston, Texas
Diploma in Chemical Engineering | National Technical University of Athens | Athens, Greece
Denise Hernandez
Research Assistant I
DAHernandez@MDAnderson.org
B.S. in Biology | University of Houston | Houston, Texas
Research Interests: In vitro/in vivo evaluation of theranostic agents
Beibei Huang
Data Scientist
BHuang1@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering | Universitat Rovira I Virgili | Tarragona, Spain
Ph.D. in Software Theory | Wuhan University | Wuhan, China
Research Interests: Computational chemistry / Molecular simulation / Computational biology
Cong-Dat Pham
Research Scientist
CPham3@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D. in Pharmacy | Heinrich Heine University | Düsseldorf, Germany
Ph.D. in Natural Products Chemistry |Heinrich Heine University | Düsseldorf, Germany
Research Interests: Medicinal chemistry / Organic synthesis / Pharmacokinetics
Krista Runge
Program Director, Diagnostic Imaging
KMcAlee@MDAnderson.org
M.S. in Radiological Sciences | Midwestern State University | Wichita Falls, Texas
B.S. in Biological & Physical Sciences | University of Houston | Houston, Texas
Shilpa Sharma
Research Scientist
SSharma11@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D. | Indian Institute of Technology | Mandi, India
Research Interests: Organic synthesis / Theranostics
Robert T. Ta
Senior Radiochemist
RTTa@MDAnderson.org
B.S. in Chemistry | University of Houston | Houston, Texas
Research Interests: Radiopharmaceuticals for medical imaging and radiotherapy / Radiolabeling methodologies / Clinical trials / Radiometals complexation / Microfluidic radiochemistry
Jianbo Wang
Research Investigator
JBWang@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D. | Xi’an Medical University | Xi’an, Shaanxi, China
Research Interests: Small-molecule screening / Mouse tumor models / Response to drug therapy of cancer
Xiaoxia Wen
Laboratory Coordinator
XWen@MDAnderson.org
B.S. in Pharmacy | Shandong University, College of Medicine | Jinan, China
M.S. in Biomedical Sciences | University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston | Houston, Texas
Research Interests: In vitro and in vivo evaluation of theranostic agents / Small animal imaging
Aiko Yamaguchi
Research Scientist
AYamaguchi@MDAnderson.org
Ph.D. in Medicine | Gunma University, Graduate School of Medicine | Maebashi, Japan
M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences | Chiba University, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Chiba, Japan
B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences | Chiba University | Chiba, Japan
Research Interests: Antibody-based theranostics/ Radiochemistry/ Site-specific conjugation