Lab Members

Margarida Almeida Santos, Ph.D. 
Associate 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

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

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

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

Ishita Rehman, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
irehman@mdanderson.org
Ph.D. (Life Science and Biotechnology) Jadavpur University via Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
M.Sc. (Biotechnology) Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha
B.Sc. (Microbiology) University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

Renee Rubiano, B.A.
GSBS Graduate Student
B.A. (Biochemistry) Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
 

Jôsimar Dornelas Moreira, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. (Clinical Immunology) Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
M.S. (Pharmacology) Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Pharm.D. Unitri - Centro Universitário do Triângulo, Uberlandia, Minas Gerais, Brazil