Faculty & Staff
Tumor Ecosystem Center Staff
Florencia McAllister, M.D.
Scientific and Translational Director
FMcAllister@MDAnderson.org
Virginia Tahan
Senior Research Assistant
Olivereen Le Roux
Research Coordinator
Thais Bartelli, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Rian Morgan Howell, Ph.D.
Research Project Manager
Tumor Ecosystem Center Members
Swathi Arur, Ph.D.
Genetics
SArur@MDAnderson.org
Pratip K. Bhattacharya, Ph.D.
Cancer Systems Imaging
PKBhattacharya@MDAnderson.org
Faraz Bishehsari, M.D., Ph.D.
Internal Medicine – Gastroenterology
UT Health Science Center
Michael P. Kim, M.D.
Surgical Oncology
MKim@MDAnderson.org
Eyal Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Cancer Biology
EGottlieb@MDAnderson.org
Seyed Javad M. Moghaddam, M.D.
Pulmonary Medicine
SMoghadd@MDAnderson.org
Tumor Ecosystem Center Collaborators
Jennifer Bailey-Lundberg, Ph.D.
JLundberg@unmc.edu
Ana De Jesus-Acosta, M.D.
ADeJesu1@jhmi.edu
Abhijit Mazumdar, Ph.D.
AMazumdar@MDAnderson.org
Erin Seeley, Ph.D.
EHSeeley@MDAnderson.org
Zobeida Cruz-Monserrate, Ph.D.
Zobeida.Cruz-Monserrate@osumc.edu
Scientific Advisory Board
Internal Advisory Board
Tim Heffernan, Ph.D.
Vice President and Therapeutics Discovery Division Head
TPHeffernan@MDAnderson.org
Katy Rezvani, M.D., Ph.D.
Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
KRezvani@MDAnderson.org
David Hong, M.D.
Investigational Cancer Therapeutics
DSHong@MDAnderson.org
Jennifer Wargo, M.D., M.M.Sc.
Surgical Oncology
JWargo@MDAnderson.org
David Piwnica-Worms, M.D., Ph.D.
Cancer Systems Imaging
DPiwnica-Worms@MDAnderson.org
External Advisory Board
Drew Pardoll, M.D., Ph.D.
JHU
Cindy Sears, M.D.
JHU
Gabriel Rabinovich, Ph.D.
Caixa-RI
Juan Lertora, M.D., Ph.D.
PBRC-LSU
Luciano Martelotto, Ph.D.
Waters Corporations