McAllister Laboratory
Florencia McAllister, M.D.
Principal Investigator
Who we are. What we do.
The McAllister Laboratory studies the interplay between the immune system, microbes and tumors behavior. We are fundamentally interested in understanding how those interactions ultimately determine tumor initiation, progression, therapies responses and metastasis.
We use a variety of models depending on the question we are asking, including genetically engineered or orthotopic muse models, bone marrow chimeric animals as well as in vitro interactive modeling systems. We follow the same approach with technologies and use flow cytometry, CyTOF, Immunoplex, single cell sequencing, as well as a variety of imaging methods. In parallel our laboratory maintains a human microbial biobank from healthy individuals, cancer patients as well as high risk individuals which allows to determine the translation relevance of our basic findings.
Contact Us
Florencia McAllister, M.D.
Associate Professor
Tumor Immunology and Cancer Biology Graduate Programs
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dept. of Clinical Cancer Prevention & Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology
Basic Sciences Research Building (BSRB)
6767 Bertner Ave.
Houston, TX 77030
Email: FMcAllister@mdanderson.org
Lab Phone: 713-745-4491