All program mentors are distinguished cancer researchers with strong record of mentorship and with appointments in UTHealth Houston. They represent 6 schools (McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston School of Public Health, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Cizik School of Nursing, UTHealth Houston School of Dentistry) and several organized research centers (such as UTHealth Houston CGC, DISCCR).
Tentative List of BIG-TCR Faculty Mentors
We initially searched a list of cancer researchers within UTHealth Houston. They could tentatively serve as the BIG-TCR Faculty mentor. Applicants may contact them to serve as the primary mentor and complementary co-mentor. This list is tentative and to be updated.
Biomedical Informatics, Genomics (BIG) Faculty
Faculty List
| Faculty Name | Title | Research Field |
|---|---|---|
| Elmer Bernstam, MD | Professor | Clinical Informatics |
| Jeffrey Chang, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Cancer biology & Genomics |
| Licong Cui, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Informatics, Ontology, DS |
| Xiaoqian Jiang, Ph.D. | Professor | Genome Privacy, AI, DS |
| Pora Kim, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Fusion Gene, Cancer Genomics |
| Hui Li, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Informatics, Data Science, AI |
| Hongfang Liu, PhD | Professor | Biomedical Informatics, Data Science, AI |
| Songjian Lu, PhD | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, Single-Cell Omics, AI |
| Sahiti Myneni, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Social Network Informatics, DS |
| Sheng Pan, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Cancer Proteomics |
| Kirk Roberts, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Biomedical Informatics, DS |
| Shayan Shams, PhD | Assistant Professor | Big Data, AI, DL/ML |
| Kuang-Lei Tsai, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Structural Omics |
| Jinlian Wang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, Clinical Genomics |
| Xiaosheng Wang, PhD | Assistant Professor | Bioinformatics, Cancer Genomics |
| Guo-Qiang Zhang, Ph.D. | Professor | DS, Biomedical Informatics |
| Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D. | Professor | Genomics, Cancer Precision Medicine, AI |
| W. Jim Zheng, Ph.D. | Professor | Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, DS |
| Degui Zhi, PhD | Professor | Bioinformatics, Genetics, AI |
| Xiaobo Zhou, Ph.D. | Professor | Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, AI, Imaging |
| Hulin Wu, Ph.D. | Professor | Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, DS |
| Jiaqian Wu, Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Genomics, Single Cell Omics, Stem Cell |
Translational Cancer Research (TCR) Faculty
Faculty List
| Faculty Name | Title | Research Field |
|---|---|---|
| Mellissa Aldrich, PhD | Assistant Professor | Immunology, NIRF Imaging |
| Zhiqiang An, PhD | Professor | Cancer Drug Discovery |
| Kendra Carmon, PhD | Assistant Professor | Cancer Antibody Drug |
| Catherine Denicourt, Ph.D. | Assistant Professor | Cell Cycle, Cancer Biology |
| Guangwei Du, PhD | Professor | Metabolism |
| Yoshua Esquenazi Levy, MD | Associate Professor | Brain Tumors, Effects of chemotherapy and cranial irradiation on brain tissue |
| Jeffrey Frost, PhD | Professor | Cancer Biology |
| Alemayehu Gorfe, PhD | Professor | Cancer Pharmacology |
| John Hagan, PhD | Assistant Professor | Therapeutic Target, MicroRNA |
| John Hancock, PhD | Professor | Cancer Drug Discovery, Translational Cancer Research |
| Cynthia Ju, PhD | Professor | Liver Cancer, Liver Disease |
| Sunil Krishnan, MD | Professor | Radiation Therapy, Nanotechnology, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancer |
| Dung-Fang Lee, PhD | Assistant Professor | Stem Cell, Therapeutic Target, Cancer Drug |
| TJ Lee, PhD | Assistant Professor | Cancer biology, microRNA, drug |
| Wenbo Li, PhD | Assistant Professor | Functional Genomics, Cancer Genomics, Biotech |
| Wenliang Li, PhD | Associate Professor | Cancer Drug Discovery |
| Qingyun Liu, PhD | Professor | Cancer Drug Discovery, Cancer Stem Cell |
| Hui-Wen Lo, PhD | Professor | Breast Cancer, Brain Tumors |
| Kristin Mahan, PhD | Assistant Professor | Circadian, Cancer Metabolism |
| Nami McCarty, PhD | Associate Professor | Lymphoma, Therapeutic Target |
| Eva Sevick, PhD | Professor | Cancer Molecular Imaging |
| Kai Sun, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Obesity and Cancer |
| Varaha Tammisetti, MD | Associate Professor | Prostate Cancer Imaging |
| Ji Young Yoo, PhD | Assistant Professor | Cancer therapeutical study, drug, genomics |
| Xiaotian Zhang, PhD | Assistant Professor | 3D Genome |
| Jay-Jiguang Zhu, MD, PhD | Professor | Brain Tumors |
Abbreviations: AI: Artificial Intelligence. DS: Data Science. NIRF: Near-Infrared Fluorescence.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact the BIG-TCR Executive Committee via [email protected].