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

Debasish Basak, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (Pharmaceutical Sciences), Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
M.S. (Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacology), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
B.S. (Pharmaceutical Sciences), University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Prosun Das, Ph.D. 
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (Medical Biochemistry),Calcutta School of Tropical Medicine, India
MSc. (Medical Biochemistry), Kasturva Medical College, Mangalore, Manipal, India
BSc. (Microbiology), Deogiri College, Aurangabad, Maharashtra, India

Saakshi Kaushik, M.S.
Research Assistant I
M.S. (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology), SIU School of Medicine
M.S. (Biotechnology), University of Mumbai, India
B.S. (Biotechnology), Ramnarain Ruia College, India 

Melisa Portis, B.S., M.B.A.
Research Investigator
mjportis@mdanderson.org
M.B.A., Tarleton State University
Master's Coursework (Entomology), Kansas State University
B.S. (Wildlife Biology), Texas State University

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

Kylee Veazey, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (Genetics), Texas A&M University
B.Sc. (Zoology), Texas A&M University