Lab Members

Kunal Rai, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor

I received a B. Tech. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in India and then joined University of Utah for my Ph.D in 2002. I performed my postdoctoral work at Huntsman Cancer Institute between 2007-10 and Dana Farber Cancer Institute between 2010-11. After joining MD Anderson Cancer Center as an Instructor in 2012, I started my laboratory in 2014 as an Assistant Professor in the Genomic Medicine department. My primary interest is understanding the role of epigenome in cancer progression. Beyond work, I love to watch and play tennis and cricket.
 

Emre Arslan, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Praveen Barrodia, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Biotechnology

Scot Carson Callahan
MD/PhD Graduate Research Assistant - GSBS
B.A., Chemistry, Emory University

(Co-mentored by Dr. Kunal Rai. Primary appointment is with the Department of Head & Neck Surgery under Dr. Jeffrey Myers.)

Apoorvi Chaudhri
Graduate Research Assistant - GSBS

(Co-mentored by Dr. Kunal Rai. Primary appointment is with the Department of Melanoma Med Onco - Rsch under Dr. Patrick Hwu.)

Archit K. Ghosh
Graduate Research Assistant - GSBS
Ph.D. Student in Genetics & Epigenetics

Wayne Yingda Jiang, B.Sc.
Graduate Research Assistant-GSBS
B.Sc., Chinese University of Hong Kong

Veena Kochat, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, India

(Co-mentored by Dr. Kunal Rai. Primary appointment is with the Department of Surgical Oncology-Research under Dr. Keila Torres.)
 

Hey Min Lee
Graduate Research Assistant - GSBS

(Co-mentored by Dr. Kunal Rai. Primary appointment is with the Department of GI Med Oncology-Research under Dr. Scott Kopetz.)

Mayinuer Maitituoheti (Mahinur Mattohti), M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
PhD, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

Jonathan Schulz
MD/PhD Student
B.S., Southwestern University

Anand Kamal Singh, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., National Centre for Cell Science, Pune, India

Christopher Terranova Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., University at Buffalo

Seenya Vincent
Graduate Research Assistant - GSBS
B.S., University of Houston-Downtown

Manrong Wu
Graduate Student-non-UTHSCH

Jiah Yang
Graduate Research Assistant - GSBS