Lab Members

Margarida Almeida Santos, Ph.D. 
Assistant Professor
MIAlmeidaSantos@mdanderson.org
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
Ph.D. (Biomedical Sciences - Immunology) University of Lisbon Medical School and Gulbenkian Institute of Science, Portugal
B.S./M.S. (Molecular Biology and Genetics) University of Lisbon School of Sciences, Portugal
Research Interests - DNA damage and epigenetics in cancer stem cells

Brittnei Earl, M.S.
Senior Research Assistant
BNEarl@mdanderson.org
M.S. (Biomedical Sciences) Mississippi College
B.S. (Biology) Millsaps College 

Peter Harkins, B.S.
Research Assistant II
prharkins@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Cellular and Molecular Biology) University of Houston-Downtown

Hieu T. Van, B.A.
Graduate Research Assistant
htvan@mdanderson.org
B.A. (Biochemistry) College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University

Guozhen Gao, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
ggao2@mdanderson.org
B.S. (Biology) Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Ph.D. (Microbiology) Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

Jee Won Hwang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
jhwang4@mdanderson.org
Ph.D (Epigenetics) Sookmyung Women’s University, Korea
M.S/B.S (Molecular Biology) Pusan National University, Korea