PhD Advisors at Rice University 莱斯大学 US
Quick answer: Rice University in the US has 1591 faculty profiles in phd-match’s database, of which 236 currently show active PhD hiring signals (as of 2026-10-19). phd-match covers 174 universities across the US, the UK, Australia, China, Hong Kong, Canada, and Singapore, not just one country.
Research-focused faculty at Rice University, listed for PhD / Master's applicants. Find professors whose research matches your interests, and check hiring signals before you reach out.
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Professors at Rice University with active hiring signals for PhD students — reach out if your research matches.
Akihiko Urayama
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Brain function is maintained in a well-controlled environment which is separated from the systemic milieu. The mechanisms that regulate the unique environment of the brain are collectively referred as the blood-brain barrier (BBB) which separates the brain parenchymal environment…
Alejandro Aballay
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Alejandro Aballay's lab has a broad research program encompassing genetics, functional genomics and neurobiological approaches to study mechanisms involved in the control of immune responses against microbial pathogens. Immune activation needs to be fine-tuned since deficient or …
Alemayehu Gorfe
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
A major interest of our lab is to understand the thermodynamic principles of specificity in cell signaling and molecular transport by means of computational and theoretical techniques. The advent of petaflop computational resources and the fast-paced progress in coarse-grained mo…
Alexis Bavencoffe
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We are studying new cellular targets to treat chronic pain, with an emphasis on patients with spinal cord injury (SCI) and chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). After SCI or chemotherapy, primary nociceptors can switch from an electrically quiet into a hyperactive st…
Ali Azhdarinia
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research is at the interface of chemistry and biology and is focused on the development of targeted agents for the visualization and treatment of disease. Using novel chemistry platforms, my laboratory produces contrast agents with radioactive and near-infrared fluorescent (NI…
Andrea Stavoe
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Stavoe lab is interested in elucidating and understanding the molecular mechanisms of neuronal homeostasis during aging. Specifically, we are examining how the autophagy pathway is regulated in neurons during aging. Autophagy is a homeostatic degradative mechanism that is esp…
Andrew Dunbar
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Dunbar lab seeks to explore the mechanisms driving clonal evolution in Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs), a rare form of chronic blood cancer. Left untreated, MPNs are lethal—occurring as a result of progressive bone marrow failure due to severe scarring (“myelofibrosis”) o…
Andrew Pountain
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My lab uses experimental and computational techniques to understand the systems biology of gene regulation in microbes and microbial pathogens. We use advanced transcriptional technologies, particularly bacterial single cell RNA sequencing, to dissect the factors shaping transcri…
Andrew Sikora
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Andrew Sikora is a head and neck cancer surgeon and tumor immunologist with a passion for improving patient outcomes through translational research. His research focuses on the immunobiology of head and neck cancer and other HPV-related tumors; and understanding and reversing mec…
Andrew Song
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research group is dedicated to building next-generation AI tools for computational pathology, grounded in rigorous principles of statistical inference, with the overarching goal of deciphering multi-scale oncologic complexity. The lab's research will focus on developing state…
Andrey Tsvetkov
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
G-quadruplexes in the brain
DNA and RNA sequences containing four stretches of guanines are able to form tetra-stranded stable structures called the G-quadruplex (G4-DNA and G4-RNA). Although G4-DNA and G4-RNA have been studied in vitro for years, it is now clear that these struc…
Anil Sood
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on mechanisms of cancer invasion and metastasis in ovarian and other cancers. Specifically, my research is focused in three main areas: 1) effect of neuroendocrine stress hormones on ovarian cancer growth and progression; 2) development of novel anti-vascular …
Anna Konovalova
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Bacterial Cell Envelope Homeostasis. My research program is focused on how Gram-negative bacteria build and maintain the integrity of their cell envelope, the hallmark of which is the outer membrane (OM). The OM is an essential organelle and a major factor of intrinsic antibiotic…
Anna Lee
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Improving the therapeutic ratio in the re-irradiation setting, the psychosocial impact of radiation therapy in patients and gender equity in the medical field. Specifically, I am looking at clinical outcomes of patients who receive re-irradiation with protons and SBRT and am in d…
Anne-Marie Krachler
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We take a highly interdisciplinary approach to study information exchange at the bacteria-host interface. The main questions driving this work are “How do bacteria perceive the host and react to switch on colonization and virulence mechanisms? And how, in turn, does the biophysic…
Aria Vaishnavi
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Vaishnavi lab’s broad research interests focus on improving our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that drive initiation, maintenance, and progression of lung adenocarcinoma and to use those findings to identify innovative, clinically-relevant therapeutic approaches. W…
Ashley Makela
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
cancer stem cells, brain metastasis, extracellular vesicles, tumor microenvironment, drug delivery, hypoxia, molecular imaging, bioluminescence, magnetic particle imaging, breast cancer
Benjamin Schrank
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The primary research focus of the Schrank Lab is to enhance the immune system's ability to detect and eliminate tumors that resist traditional immunotherapies. Our lab achieves this goal by targeting genome instability and applying principles of bioengineering to design therapies…
Bhanu Priya Ganesh
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
gut-brain axis, bacterial therapy, amyloid beta, Alzheimer’s, stroke, infectious diseases, pathogens, immunology, microglia, metabolomics, amino acid metabolites, mucus barrier and host-microbe interaction
Bharti Manwani
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Stroke is the major cause of disability in United States and is known to be a sexually dimorphic disease. Women have worse outcomes and bear the major burden of post-stroke disability from ischemic strokes. Cardio-embolic strokes from paroxysmal atrial fibrillation are associated…
Bin Wang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
DNA damage response; genomic instability and cancer; BRCA1 signaling; ubiquitin signaling
Bingjie Zhang
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Developing advanced multiomic single-cell technologies to investigate the molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis; Exploring epigenetic regulation underlying cancer plasticity and drug resistance; Understanding how differences in epigenetic regulation might help explain why leukemi…
Bisrat Debeb
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Research in my laboratory focuses on uncovering the molecular determinants of breast cancer aggressiveness, metastasis, and therapy resistance. Specifically, our efforts aim to: (i) identify and target the molecular drivers of brain metastasis, a common and devastating manifestat…
Blaine Bartholomew
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Regulation of nuclear organization and chromatin dynamics by ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers. ATP-dependent chromatin remodelers are the gatekeepers of the cell and are crucial for maintaining cells in a pluripotent state as well as for switching to a differentiated state. Mut…
Boyi Gan
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
cancer metabolism, ferroptosis, and cancer therapy
Burton Dickey
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Mucin Secretion
The principal focus of our laboratory is the molecular mechanism and pathophysiologic significance of airway mucin secretion. We use a mouse genetic approach that allows us both to gain fundamental insight into the molecular mechanism of secretion and to use muta…
Callie Kwartler
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Moyamoya disease (MMD), characterized by bilateral progressive stenosis and occlusion of the internal carotid arteries, is a common cause of stroke in children. Currently, the only treatment for MMD patients is surgical correction, and the disease causes high morbidity and mortal…
Cara Haymaker
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Defining the tumor immune microenvironment in rare solid tumors such as malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) and sarcoma where responses to immunotherapy strategies are lacking. Theme 1 is focused on investigating ways to modulate intratumoral antigen presenting cells (APCs), spe…
Carmen Dessauer
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Regulation of adenylyl cyclase and cyclic AMP signaling
Cassian Yee
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Cancer immunotherapy, the use of the immune system to combat cancer, is a rapidly emerging field of research that has recently gained foothold in the clinic as a treatment modality. My laboratory works on the development of immunotherapies for the treatment of cancer, in particul…
Catherine Denicourt
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The G1 phase of the cell cycle is a critical period during which cells decide whether to proliferate or stay quiescent, depending on molecular checkpoints. Human tumors frequently have alterations in cell cycle regulators that normally control progression through G1. Therefore, u…
Chad Huff
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Graduate students in my lab would receive extensive, hands-on training in bioinformatics and computational genomics. Students will have the opportunity to take a leadership role in the identification of novel cancer-susceptibility loci from large-scale, next-generation sequencing projects. Students …
Research in my lab is concentrated on understanding human evolution and the genetic basis of human disease through statistical, computational, and population genomics. Our work spans a number of human genetics subdisciplines, including disease-gene identification, mutation rate e…
Charles Darkoh
Professor and R. Palmer Beasley, M.D. & Lu Yu Hwang, M.D. Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases and Global Health · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory focuses on microbial pathogenesis, molecular epidemiology, and the molecular basis of enteric infectious diseases to identify and understand the mechanisms of action of novel virulence factors, pathways, and unique microbial products that can be harnessed for diagno…
Chengyue Wu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The value of computational modeling in precision cancer healthcare cannot be overstated. Emerging developments in cancer assessment techniques and therapeutics offer numerous opportunities to detect cancers earlier, monitor responses more accurately, and manage cancers with bette…
Chirag Patel
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
This interdisciplinary and translational laboratory studies the biology of glioblastoma, the most common and lethal form of primary brain cancer in adults. With the hope of ultimately improving outcomes for patients with brain tumors, we investigate novel therapeutic strategies i…
Christopher Johnston
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Over the last decade, extensive research has uncovered the presence of a distinct microbes within tumors across gastrointestinal tract cancers, which can persist in metastatic disease, and which differ among individual cancer types. Moreover, it has become evident that both the t…
Chunru Lin
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Recent insights have revealed the functional role of various classes of noncoding RNA molecules, especially in answering questions that have proven unviable with the central dogma of biology and conventional protein pathways. Our lab has been on the forefront of noncoding RNA res…
Claudio Soto
Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
For the past 15 years, Dr. Soto's group has been engaged in research into the molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases associated to the misfolding and brain accumulation of proteins, particularly focusing in Alzheimer's and prion-related disorders. His work include basic sc…
Daniel Frigo
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Steroid hormones are chemicals that are made in one part of our body and can travel great distances to signal specific events in other parts of our body. At the molecular level, steroid hormones communicate by binding to and activating a class of proteins known as nuclear recepto…
Danielle Garsin
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
C. elegans as a model host for understanding the genetics of bacterial infection
David Grosshans
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory is focused on two main projects. The first is exploring the cellular mechanisms of radiation induced cognitive decline. Radiation plays an essential role in the treatment of brain tumors, with nearly 200,000 patients undergoing brain irradiation annually in the Uni…
David Tweardy
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
David Tweardy is a physician-scientist with a career-long interest in cytokine signaling, immunity, and oncogenesis. His research has focused on identifying structural and biochemical features of signaling proteins and oncoproteins that render them susceptible to modulation by sm…
Devarati Mitra
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research efforts are focused on improving outcomes for cancer patients receiving radiation therapy to skin and superficial tissue targets using translational laboratory-based approaches spanning the spectrum of cell biology, animal models and prospectively collected patient sa…
Devika Soundara Manickam
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
drug delivery, extracellular vesicles, mitochondria, proteins, BBB, LNPs, ionic liquids
Diana Proctor
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Six Candida species are classified by the World Health Organization as critical and high-priority fungal threats, with infections from non-albicans species rising globally. While Candida typically colonizes healthy individuals asymptomatically as part of the microbiome, it can le…
Dianna Milewicz
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Research in the Milewicz lab is focused on genetically triggered vascular diseases, including thoracic aortic aneurysms and dissections, atherosclerosis, and moyamoya disease. For all these vascular diseases, premature death and disability due to these conditions can be prevented…
Dihua Yu
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory performs basic and translational cancer research at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). Our laboratory functions as a bridge connecting basic and translational cancer research to important issues in cancer patient care. We focus on tackling unmet medical chall…
Dongjoo Choi
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Choi's research program focuses on the functional heterogeneity of glial cells, particularly astrocytes and microglia, in neurodegenerative diseases and brain tumors. His lab investigates novel subpopulations of reactive astrocytes that emerge in models of Alzheimer's and Par…
Dung-Fang Lee
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our research is dedicated to unraveling the enhanced functions of mutant p53, a protein implicated in the development of various cancers. By understanding how mutant p53 promotes cancer, we aim to identify potential strategies to counteract its oncogenic effects. Over the past fe…
E. Scott Kopetz
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The goal of research in my laboratory is an understanding of the therapeutic vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer, including those induced by oncogenes and tumor plasticity. The focus of the research is evaluation of targets and compounds close to application in the clinic, with …
Edgar Walters
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We investigate pain-, injury-, and memory-associated plasticity in species ranging from humans to invertebrates. Our current emphasis is on mechanisms in mammalian nociceptors that are important drivers of persistent pain in diverse pathological conditions, including rodent model…
Eduardo Vilar-Sanchez
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Vilar-Sanchez is a physician-scientist and a medical oncologist by training. His clinical expertise and practice are devoted to the care of patients and families diagnosed with Hereditary Cancer Syndromes with a special emphasis in Lynch Syndrome (LS) and Familial Adenomatous…
Emil Schueler
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The overall objective of our lab is on developing the next generation biology-driven radiation treatment technologies and studying their unique biological effects in preparation for clinical translation. Our work lies in the interface between radiation physics, radiation biology,…
Emily Keung
Associate Member, Assistant Professor - Vice Chair of Research · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Soft tissue sarcomas, molecular pathogenesis, tumor immune microenvironment, undifferentiated pleomorphic sarcoma, liposarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, experimental and computational approaches, biospecimens, therapeutic vulnerabilities, clinical trials
Ergys Subashi
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My work is focused on the development of MRI techniques for adaptive radiation therapy. I study and develop methods for improved target delineation by identifying functional tumor subunits with varying response to therapy. Additionally, I work on imaging methods to enhance sensit…
Eugene Koay
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Cancer Physics and Engineering Laboratory focuses on (1) the physical properties of cancer and how those relate to their biological underpinnings and (2) the engineering of patient-specific devices to improve cancer outcomes through 3D printing. With regard to the physical pr…
Eunhee Kim
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research is focused on evaluating molecular and genetic mechanisms, biomarkers, and inflammatory response involved in stroke pathology. Although stroke is one of the major causes of disability and death worldwide, treatment options are very limited for the stroke patients. Sev…
Eunsu Park
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our glia-vascular biology lab seeks to understand how glia (microglia and astrocytes) interact with vascular cells to contribute to critical brain vascular diseases, particularly brain AVM, hemorrhagic stroke, vascular dementia, and aging-related pathology. Notably, our team esta…
Fabien Delerue
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Synthetic Biology (SynBio) encompasses transgenesis, gene editing, gene therapy, rare genetic disorders and assisted reproductive technologies. Dr Delerue's research focuses essentially on streamlining gene transfer techniques to facilitate the generation of genetically modified …
Fabricio Do Monte
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Do Monte Lab focuses on understanding the neural circuits and mechanisms underlying emotional memories. We are particularly interested in elucidating how fear- and reward-associated memories interact to generate the most adaptive behavioral responses. Using a multidisciplinar…
Faraz Bishehsari
Professor · McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
I am the director of the Gastroenterology Research Center (GRC), a new multidisciplinary gastroenterology research center at McGovern Medical School. The GRC integrates translational research with patient care, focusing on the role of the digestive tract in health and diseases. A…
Federica Pisaneschi
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Radiopharmaceuticals (RPs) are drugs that leverage radiation to exert their diagnostic or therapeutic effect. The type of radioisotope and its emitted radiation dictates whether an RP is a diagnostic agent for nuclear molecular imaging (Single-Photon Emission Computerized Tomogra…
Francesca Cole
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
DNA Repair by Homologous Recombination
Francisco Vega
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Dr. Francisco Vega is a Professor and the Lymphoma Section Head in the Department of Hematopathology at MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDACC). Dr. Vega is an internationally recognized expert in lymphoma who is routinely involved in lymphoma diagnosis and has led an NCI-funded resear…
Fuqing Wu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Infectious viral diseases, wastewater-based surveillance, molecular virology, genomic sequencing, mathematical modeling, viral metagenomics, microbiome and medicine
Gab Seok Kim
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We are investigating the role of interferon signaling and reactive oxygen species following stroke, as well as signal transduction in cerebrovascular diseases. Current research focuses on understanding the molecular and cellular changes, such as neuroinflammation and neurodegener…
Gabriel Sawakuchi
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We are a radiobiology laboratory interested in DNA repair research. Our goal is to develop strategies to sensitize tumors to radiation using DNA repair defects to induce direct radiosensitization or to enhance immunostimulation. We study the role of base excision repair, homologo…
George Eisenhoffer, Jr.
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
zebrafish development and genetics; epithelial tissue homeostasis; regeneration; stem cells; cell extrusion; metastasis
Georgene Hergenroeder
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research interests are primarily in spinal cord and brain injury. My work in biomarker discovery and inflammation led me to evaluating autoantibody production after human spinal cord injury (SCI). Studies using experimental models of SCI have shown that the release of CNS prot…
Georgios Karras
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Protein Homeostasis and Cancer Evolution
Geraldine Raja
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
The advances in therapeutic agents have rendered most cancers curable, especially when diagnosed in the early stages. However, despite the advent of targeted therapies and immunotherapy, cancer metastasis and recurrence still pose unsurmountable challenges leading to patient fata…
Gohar Manzar
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Natural killer (NK) cell biology, radiation therapy, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-NK cell therapy, pediatric solid tumors
Guillermina Lozano
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
the p53 tumor suppressor pathway; mouse tumor models
Han Chen
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Public Health
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research interests mainly focus on statistical genetics and genomics, including computational methods for analyzing large-scale sequencing data, parametric and semiparametric statistical models for correlated data analysis, rare genetic variant association analysis, meta-analy…
Han Liang
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The fundamental question driving our research paradigm is how to take full advantage of cancer genomic data to elucidate the molecular basis of human cancer and develop effective therapeutic strategies, thereby contributing to the true promise of personalized or precision cancer …
Han Xu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Computational and Systems Biology
Hanseul Kim
Assistant Professor · The University Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on understanding how diet and the gut microbiome work together to influence the development of gastrointestinal (GI) and liver diseases, including colorectal cancer and liver cancer. I use large human cohort data, such as the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Pr…
Hemanth Mohan
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Mohan Lab is focused on understanding the neural circuit mechanisms that govern the transformation of sensation to action to drive goal directed behaviors. Sensory inputs from peripheral organs, such as the skin and eyes, are relayed through neurons that synapse at various le…
Hind Rafei
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Overcoming immunosuppressive barriers in the tumor microenvironment (TME) to advance adoptive cell therapies for cancer; T and NK cell therapies; interplay between epigenetics and metabolism; enhancing efficacy of cellular therapies, particularly CAR-T cells for solid tumors; CAR…
Hojong Yoon
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Yoon Lab focuses on developing innovative small-molecule drugs to target previously undruggable proteins and to elucidate drug mechanisms at the molecular level. By integrating chemical biology, protein biochemistry, medicinal chemistry, functional genomics and proteomics, th…
Honami Naora
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Research in the Naora Laboratory is directed to investigating the mechanisms of metastatic organotropism, with a focus on cellular dynamics in peritoneal metastasis. Whereas metastasis to various distal sites occurs through the blood circulation or lymphatic system, ovarian cance…
Hongyuan Yang
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The primary goal of my laboratory is to understand the molecular mechanisms governing the sorting, trafficking, and storage of cellular lipids in health and disease. A major direction has been to define how lipid droplets originate and grow from the endoplasmic reticulum. Lipid d…
Hussein Abbas
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Abbas lab aims to identify novel vulnerabilities and mechanisms of response/resistance to in leukemias (blood cancers) focusing on both intrinsic (leukemia-specific) and extrinsic (immunobiology, stroma, niche) factors. The research questions are generated by clinical observa…
Irina Serysheva
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Cell function depends on the continuous flow of molecules into and out of the cell and between intracellular compartments. Understanding the structural basis of ion transport is one of the most important frontiers in structural biology. Ion channels, a class of integral membranes…
Iwan Paolucci
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My main areas of research include artificial intelligence and stereotactic and robotic image-guidance for treatment of hepatobiliary malignancies with a strong focus on thermal ablation of primary and secondary malignant liver tumors. Using artificial intelligence enabled the fie…
J. Christian Perez
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory uses a variety of experimental and computational approaches to gain insights into (1) gene regulatory circuits and (2) microbial interactions with the mammalian host. Transcriptional circuits are central to the regulation of many biological processes. The laboratory…
Jayhun Lee
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Developmental regulation of parasite survival and immune evasion by Schistosoma. Schistosomes are parasitic flatworms that cause schistosomiasis, a major parasitic disease that affects over 200 million people globally. After schistosomes infect a mammalian host through the skin, …
Jean Gautier
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Many, if not all cancers have unstable genomes. Genomic instability often arises from defects in DNA repair that can drive cancer development; yet the inability of cancer cells to faithfully repair DNA makes them vulnerable to DNA damaging cancer therapies, which are commonly use…
Jeffrey Molldrem
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory has a longstanding interest in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying the curative graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect mediated by donor T cells against recipient leukemia following allogeneic stem cell transplantation. By combining high-throughput single-c…
Jennifer Walker
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
We blend multiple scientific disciplines to define the host-pathogen interactions that determine the onset, course, and outcome of chronic infections. Using medical device infections as a model for chronic infections, we are currently pursuing the following questions:
1.How do m…
Jia Wu
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Biomarkers that can stratify patients with clinical relevance are critically needed for precision medicine in the cancer field. However, spatial heterogeneity of molecular subpopulations within a tumor has posed critical challenges of biospecimen-derived metrics. By contrast, med…
Jian Hu
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research focus of Hu lab is on stem cells and glial biology in the central nervous system (CNS), particularly under the context of glioma and neurodegenerative diseases. Malignant glioma is the most common and lethal type of primary brain tumor. Substantial evidence has revea…
Jianjun Gao
Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory conducts translational research that leverages clinical biospecimens and data to investigate the mechanisms of response, resistance, and toxicity to immunotherapy, targeted therapy, and chemotherapy in patients with genitourinary malignancies, particularly bladder a…
Jihye Yun
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory aims to identify dietary factors that can affect tumorigenesis and understand the molecular basis for the relationship between diet and colorectal cancer using preclinical model systems. In this regard, we will use genetically engineered mouse models of intestinal…
Jinzhong Yang
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Advanced Adaptive Radiation Therapy, medical image computing for radiation oncology applications, novel image segmentation and deformable registration algorithms for multi-modality images, MR-guided online adaptive radiotherapy (MR-Linac), quantitative imaging biomarkers for trea…
Jiyang Cai
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The back of the eye has immune privilege and under physiological conditions is protected from overt inflammation and autoimmune responses. With aging and age-related degeneration of the outer retina and the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), the initial lesions recruit and activat…
Jlenia Guarnerio
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Tumor cells constantly interact with the surrounding "normal" cells in the tumor microenvironment (TME), and these interactions are crucial for tumor growth and progression. Understanding this crosstalk is essential for developing novel therapies. We employ cutting-edge technolog…
Joo Eun Jung
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Main research interest in Dr. Jung's lab is to identify novel cells-to cells communication, which contributes to stroke recovery via mitochondria-derived small peptides (MDPs) in neurovascular unit. Dr. Jung has been investigating role of mitochondrial transfer among cells in bra…
Joseph Butner
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Butner’s research is focused on using mathematical and computational methods to discover causes of cancer treatment failure, identify new calculable biomarkers, and find methods to engineer personalized treatment strategies. Research in his laboratory (dry lab only) is focuse…
Joseph McCarty
Professor & Vice Chair · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The brain is the most vascularized organ in the human body. Its billions of neurons and glia are interconnected with an elaborate network of blood vessels that display many unique features, including a blood-brain barrier (BBB). The mechanisms by which cerebral endothelial cells …
Joya Chandra
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our lab conducts multidisciplinary translational research in pediatric oncology therapy and survivorship with an emphasis on brain tumor and leukemia therapeutics and roles for modifiable behaviors in treatment outcomes. Some current projects include:
- Chromatin modifiers in p…
Juan Ocampo Ramos
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Dr. Juan Camilo Ocampo Ramos's research focuses on advancing the field of imaging physics and nuclear medicine through the development of innovative dosimetry tools and methodologies. His work emphasizes personalized dosimetry, radiological protection, and quality assurance in di…
Juli Bai
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research of Dr. Bai's lab is dedicated to unraveling novel mechanisms underlying the intricate interplay between immune regulation and metabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver and steatohepatitis (MAFL and MASH), as wel…
Julia Tomasson
Assistant Professor of the History of Premodern Science and Technology
⭐ Professor Tomasson is happy to oversee independent studies, honors theses, and mentored research opportunities through the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF) and Rice Undergraduate Scholars Program (RUSP). Tomasson also welcomes inquiries from graduate students (current and prospect…
History of Science; Science and Technology Studies; History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Mathematics; Historical Epistemology; Global Histories of Knowledge; Afro-Eurasia before 1800
Julio Cordero-Morales
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The long-term objective of my group is to uncover the mechanism(s) by which bioactive lipids modulate the function of vascular and sensory ion channels in vitro and in vivo. Members of the transient receptor potential (TRP) ion channel subfamily, such as TRPV1, TRPV4, and TRPC3, …
Jun Wang
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Wang lab research is aimed at understanding signaling pathways such as Hippo, Wnt and Bmp pathways as well as non-coding RNAs in regulating craniofacial and heart development, diseases and regeneration. For example, one of the cardiac projects is to investigate the function and m…
Jun-ichi Abe
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Many of the anticancer agents can lead to significant vascular complications, such as angina, myocardial infarction, venous or arterial thrombosis, and newly developed or worsened hypertension. These vascular events could be caused by cancer therapy-mediated endothelial cell (EC)…
Junchen Liu
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Liu's lab combines high resolution imaging and pharmacogenetic approaches coupled with mouse cancer models to study how glycosylated lipids regulate KRAS oncogenesis. Oncogenic KRAS mutations occur at a high rate in pancreatic and lung cancers; therefore, the lab employs mult…
Jyotika Sharma
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Using state of the art techniques and resources including unique transgenic mouse lines (many of which are not available commercially); and human patient samples, my laboratory is investigating neutrophil functions in acute and chronic inflammatory diseases. Specifically, we stud…
Ke Li
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Li's research program focuses on two main areas: advancing CT and cone-beam CT (CBCT) imaging technologies, and translating these innovations into clinical practice for improved cancer diagnosis and treatment. The Li research group has significantly contributed to the clinica…
Ken Chen
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My Lab is interested in comprehensively and accurately constructing the genomes and the transcriptomes of various cancer cell populations towards understanding the heterogeneity and the evolution of cancer as a consequence of genetics and environment. We are also interested in d…
Kendra Carmon
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
We are focused on identifying new targets for therapeutic development and investigating their function and signaling mechanisms in cancer. One of the targets our lab is studying is Leucine-rich repeat-containing G protein-coupled Receptor 5 (LGR5) which is highly expressed in col…
Kenneth Hu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Understanding how immune checkpoint blockade propagates through the multicellular network of the tumor microenvironment and draining lymphoid tissue is essential to improving its efficacy and response rate. Specifically, my lab is interested in how the heterogenous spatial arrang…
Keran Ma
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The Ma lab aims to understand neuron-glia interactions and cellular dysfunction underlying behavioral disturbances in Alzheimer's disease at the molecular, cellular, circuit and network levels. We are interested in investigating neuronal functional deficits and modulation of neur…
Keri Schadler
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
In the Schadler lab, we have two broad categories of interest: tumor vascular biology and the utilization of moderate aerobic exercise as a therapeutic adjuvant during cancer treatment or stem cell transplant. We use mouse models of pediatric bone sarcomas and melanoma to a) dete…
Kevin McBride
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Programmed DNA Damage and Immune System Diversity
Khandan Keyomarsi
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The research in my laboratory is focused on the development of novel strategies for treatment and prognosis of breast cancer by combining experimental therapeutics with cell biology while targeting the cell cycle. To this end, the laboratory is currently involved in 5 areas of re…
Kirk Roberts
Associate Professor · School of Biomedical Informatics
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
I am a methodologist in natural language processing (NLP) for biomedicine. Specifically, this means I see to advance the methods developed for biomedical NLP. I have published almost 200 scientific articles and am an internationally-recognized leader in my specialty. This crosses…
Kuang-Lei Tsai
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Human diseases are often caused by abnormal gene expression, such as cancer. In human cells, gene expression is tightly regulated by many macromolecular complexes, such as coactivators, chromatin remodeling complexes, and long non-coding RNA molecules (lncRNAs). Studying their st…
Kunal Rai
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Cancer cells acquire genetic and epigenetic alterations that drive progression through multiple steps of tumor evolution. We have limited understanding of the extent and nature of epigenetic alterations in cancers and their functional contribution. Our lab focuses on understandin…
Kwong-Kwok Wong
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory is interested in deciphering the molecular pathogenesis of ovarian cancer with a translational goal to identify potential prognostic biomarkers and therapeutic targets for individualized therapy. My current research focus is on rare ovarian cancer such as low-grade …
Laura Goetzl
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Goetzl lab focuses on translational research in perinatal brain injury. Specifically, we explore mechanisms of fetal brain alterations related to three major areas of exposure: 1) Hypoxia/Ischemia 2) Viral infections such as Zika and Cytomegalovirus (CMV) and 3) Exposure to p…
Lawrence Kwong
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our lab focuses primarily on cholangiocarcinoma (bile duct cancer), melanoma, and bladder cancer, with an emphasis on drug resistance, discovery of novel drug combinations, mouse modeling, patient sample analyses, and omics including RNAseq, ChIPseq, spatial transcriptomics, sing…
Li Ma
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
breast cancer metastasis; breast tumor radioresistance & drug resistance; regulation of key breast cancer proteins & pathways by deubiquitining enzymes
Linghua Wang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our Laboratory at MD Anderson Cancer Center is a computational biology research lab. We develop and apply innovative bioinformatics approaches to dissect the tumor 'ecosystem', deeply profile tumor cells and the cells of the tumor microenvironment, as well as tumor-immune-stroma …
Liuqing Yang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Although relatively unexplored, long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are aberrantly expressed in a broad spectrum of cancers and are involved in promoting and maintaining cancer cell characteristics. The implicated functions of lncRNAs in diverse cancer types make these molecules attra…
Long-Jun Wu
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Wu's research mainly focuses on neuroimmune interaction in health and disease. Particularly, he is interested in studying the role of microglia, the highly dynamic immune cells in the central nervous system, in clinically relevant pathologies such as epilepsy, neuropathic pai…
Luigi Perelli
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
Why do normal cells become tumor cells? My team's research program aims to advance our knowledge in this area of cancer biology to discover molecular hallmarks of malignant transformation. My group is focused on malignant transformation of renal and brain tumors; specifically on …
Marian Kalocsay
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Our new lab at MD Anderson is looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students to elucidate cancer-relevant molecular mechanisms in Immune Checkpoint signaling. We apply top-notch quantitative multiplexed TMT mass spectrometry with newest instruments. Come join a great diverse team and help find innovati…
The Kalocsay lab is using quantitative mass spectrometry to understand receptor signaling. We have pioneered proximity sensitive proteomics to precisely define functional interactions in situ at unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution and developed proximity phospho-proteom…
Marianna Trakala
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory investigates how chromosomal instability (CIN) and aneuploidy—hallmarks of cancer—impact tissue homeostasis, tumor development, and immune surveillance. We aim to understand the physiological responses to chromosome missegregation in vivo and uncover how aneuploidy …
Mark A. Torres
Associate Professor, Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
⭐ Dr. Torres does not consider GRE scores as part of his admission criteria and would prefer that prospective graduate students DO NOT submit these scores as part of their applications.
Biogeochemistry, Isotope geochemistry, Hydrology, Geomorphology, Geobiology.
Mark Hamilton
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common form of lymphoma. DLBCL is treated in the first line with chemoimmunotherapy and in the second line with CAR T-cell therapy. Lymphoma therapy is curative in the first- and second-line setting but can cause substantial toxic…
Mary (Cindy) Farach-Carson
Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Extracellular matrix plays a central role in cell and tissue form and function. The growth promoting activities of instructive extracellular matrices provide a very rich environment to study both normal and abnormal pathways in stem cell biology, cancer biology and tissue remodel…
Matthew DeBerge
Assistant Professor · McGovern School of Medicine, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The general area of our research is the origin and role of inflammation in homeostasis and disease. We are particularly interested in the cellular and molecular regulation of inflammatory signaling during cardiovascular disease and neurodegeneration. This involves studying tissue…
Melvin Klegerman
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The molecular targeting program of the cardiology research laboratories is focused on liposomal (and other particulate) targeting strategies aimed at developing improved modalities for diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular and other diseases; molecular aspects of protein-lipi…
Michael Curran
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Understanding the origins of immune privilege and T cell suppression in the coldest tumors, prostate and pancreatic cancer and glioblastoma; suppressive myeloid stroma; tumor metabolism; tumor hypoxia; hypermetabolism; STING agonists; tumor cell phagocytosis; tumor antigen cross-…
Michael R. King
E.D. Butcher Professor of Bioengineering & CPRIT Scholar
⭐ Research in the King Laboratory is supported by funding from the National Institutes of Health, and a major award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). We are currently growing our team by recruiting outstanding postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, especially tho…
Mechanobiology, Cellular and Molecular Engineering, Immunoengineering & Cancer, Drug Delivery, Cell Therapies, Nanomedicine
Mikhail Bogdanov
George Hasko, MD, PHD · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Topobiology (lipid and protein topogenesis) and bioconformatics. Lipid-assisted dynamic membrane protein topogenesis. Dynamic membrane asymmetry. Lipochaperones. Bacterial envelope remodeling and development of resistance to antibiotics and innate immunity system. Lipids and SecY…
Min Sup Song
Associate Member, Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Our laboratory focuses on understanding the fundamental mechanisms responsible for molecular pathogenesis of cancer, aging, and metabolic disorder. In particular, we are interested in identifying novel regulatory mechanisms of PTEN and its intersection pathway by a direct genetic…
Mohamed Naser
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research focuses on developing artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) models to optimize cancer treatment, predict patient outcomes, and improve clinical decision-making. I specialize in quantitative medical imaging, radiomics, and computat…
Muxuan Liang
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research program focuses on advancing statistical and machine learning (ML) methods to enable personalized decision-making in healthcare. I develop innovative approaches in three interconnected areas: individualized treatment strategies, responsible and explainable AI, and tra…
Nami McCarty
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
One of my lab main interests is to delineate the mechanisms of cancer dormancy and proliferation. We aim to delineate how changes in metabolism including protein synthesis and degradation regulate cancer dormancy and proliferation. We use multiple myeloma (MM) as a model disease …
Natividad Roberto Fuentes, Jr.
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Proteins are often credited as the macromolecule responsible for performing critical cellular functions, however lipids have recently garnered more attention as our understanding of their role in cell function and human health becomes more apparent. Lipids serve important functio…
Nicholas De Lay
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Role of sRNAs in shaping bacterial behavior
Nitin Tandon
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Human language
Neural decoding of speech and BCI
Neural prostheses development
Population mapping of language and reading
Intra-cranial EEG (neural recording in humans)
Electrical cortical stimulation mapping
Imaging (e.g., fMRI, DTI)
Preoperative and intraoperative functional ma…
Paige Taylor
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
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Palaniraja Thandapani
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our lab study mechanisms governing plasticity of mRNA translation during tumorigenesis, specifically how deregulation of transfer RNA (tRNA) pathways favor codon biased translation of oncogenic programs in leukemia. Through expression profiling of tRNAs, we recently identified al…
Paul Scheet
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My main research involves the development of statistical methods for the analysis of population genetic data. Specifically, I work with models for linkage disequilibrium (LD), and develop applications for taking proper account of the dependence among nearby loci. These applicatio…
Pawel Mazur
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ We are seeking strong candidates for three high-impact, cross-disciplinary research projects within the pancreatic and lung cancer research program (mdanderson.org/MazurLab). Current projects are supported by several multi-year grants focused on the development of novel targeted and immuno-therapeut…
Cancer Immunotherapy and Precision Medicine
Peeyush Thankamani Pandit
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Students will have the opportunity to contribute to our ongoing research aimed at repairing or rejuvenating cerebral vessels following stroke or Alzheimer’s disease. Another opportunity involves investigating the interactions between CNS endothelial cells and neurons in forming the complex six-layer…
In our lab, we focus on understanding the epigenetic and signaling mechanisms that regulate the development, maintenance, and repair of blood vessels in the central nervous system (CNS). Our groundbreaking discovery of an epigenetic mechanism capable of activating angiogenesis in…
Peng Wei
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
The principal focus of my professional interests and expertise is to develop novel and powerful statistical methods motivated by emerging problems in biomedical research, in particular, genomics and genetics of complex human diseases. My research program is focused on developing …
Peter Christie
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on a characterization of the mechanism by which bacteria deliver DNA and protein effector molecules across their cell envelopes and into eukaryotic target cells. Many medically and agriculturally important pathogens elaborate macromolecular secretion machines,…
Peter Van Loo
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
cancer genomics; tumor evolution; intra-tumor heterogeneity; cancer metastasis; genomics; epigenomics
Phuoc Tran
Professor & Chair · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory investigates the molecular and cellular pathways that drive the development, progression, and treatment response of prostate, lung, and liver cancers, with a particular emphasis on epithelial–mesenchymal plasticity and radiobiology. A major focus is understanding tr…
Powel Brown
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ I am currently recruiting PhD students to rotate through the laboratory. Available projects include studies of critical molecules in triple-negative breast cancer including kinases (DAPK, MELK, RYK, and others), oncogenic phosphatases (PRL-3 and others), transcription factors (Sox, FOX, STAT transcr…
In my laboratory, we focus on identifying molecules that are necessary for the growth, survival, and transformation of breast cancers. We work to identifying the critical molecular pathways that control breast cell growth, transformation, progression, and metastasis, and then tar…
Priyatansh Gurha
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My primary research objective is to gain insight into the molecular mechanisms that regulate gene expression and contribute to the pathogenesis of heart failure. Within the context of this theme, we are investigating the role of epigenetics and non-coding RNAs in the proliferatio…
Qingchun Tong
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
The current obesity epidemic and its associated metabolic syndrome have imposed unprecedented challenges to society and medicine. Our research is directed to understand the fundamental mechanistic insights on key driving causes for defective feeding and body weight regulation, th…
Rachel Miller
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
kidney development; planar cell polarity and Wnt signaling; primary cilia; morphogenesis; frog embryogenesis
Richard Cox
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Cox Lab explores the intricate biology of pancreatic islets, which orchestrate blood glucose control, and their role in metabolism, diabetes, and obesity. At the heart of this system are the insulin-producing beta cells, whose dysfunction or loss drives both type 1 and type 2…
Robert Orlowski
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory group's research efforts are focused on three areas, the first of which is identifying new genes and pathways that contribute to cancer pathogenesis in general, and the pathobiology of multiple myeloma and non-Hodgkin lymphoma in particular. For example, we have rec…
Rodrigo Romero
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Romero laboratory studies the molecular and epigenetic mechanisms that govern lineage plasticity and therapy resistance in cancer. We seek to understand how tumor cells change identity in response to genetic perturbation, environmental stress, and therapeutic pressure. Using …
Ronald DePinho
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our basic and translational research program focuses on pathways and processes governing aging and age-related disorders, particularly cancer. Our experimental approach is built upon the use of unbiased computational analyses of multi-dimensional datasets, genetically engineered …
Rosalie Griffin
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our group studies how inherited genetic variation, clonal hematopoiesis, and precancerous conditions shape the risk and progression of blood cancers. At the intersection of molecular epidemiology, computational genomics, and clinical oncology, we integrate germline and somatic ge…
Roza Nurieva
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our research is to understand the molecular basis of T cell mediated immune responses, and how abnormal immune regulation leads to immunodeficiency, autoimmunity and cancer. These studies will help us to understand the function of the immune system, and will, therefore, help deve…
Ruitao Lin
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Broadly speaking, my research work is driven by the interdisciplinary nature of statistics and the interplay between theory and practice. My primary research interest lies in developing adaptive statistical methods for clinical trials. Collaborative in nature, clinical studies ne…
Ryan Sun
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research interests lie in developing novel statistical methodology that enables researchers to extract knowledge and insights from increasingly complex biomedical datasets. I also emphasize applying these methods and disseminating the ideas to the broader biomedical research c…
Sammy Ferri-Borgogno
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
It has been my personal vision and mission in my research career to understand how cancer biology, -omics technologies and immunology might be integrated to facilitate the understanding of host-tumor responses and identifying new diagnostic and predictive biomarkers, as well as t…
Sang Hyun Cho
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research program covers a wide spectrum of research topics ranging from traditional medical physics to nanotechnology. Also, it is built upon both experimental and computational approaches to maximize the synergy between them. Currently, my research focuses on the following to…
Sara Zanivan
Associate Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Cancer-Associated Fibroblast (CAF) metabolism; Mass Spectrometry-Based Proteomics
Scott Evans
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
innate immunity, immunocompromised host, pneumonia, host-pathogen interaction, pattern recognition receptors, TLR, RLR, RIG-I, ODN, oligodeoxynucleotide, Pam2, mouse genetics, cell signaling, bacteria, virus, fungus, infection models, synergy, epithelium, epithelial biology, mous…
Seung-Hee (Sally) Yoo
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Biological rhythm (circadian clock) using an integrative approach combining mouse models with molecular and cellular mechanistic studies.
Seungwoo Kang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Have you ever wondered why some people lose control over their drinking, and what happens in their brains when they do? Could there be more effective treatments? These questions drive our research into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying addiction and its comorbidities. Our…
Seyed Javad Moghaddam
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Overall, the research in my laboratory focuses on the interplay between inflammation and lung cancer. Lung cancer, particularly lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) is the second most common type of cancer, and the leading cause of cancer related mortality worldwide. The most successful, s…
Shengqing (Stan) Gu
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our lab is interested in enhancing the efficacy of cancer immunotherapy by modulating cell-cell interactions. To achieve this goal, we integrate various cutting-edge experimental and computational approaches in the areas of functional genomics, single-cell/spatial multi-omics, da…
Sherif Gadoue
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Monte Carlo simulation of radiation transport, LET/RBE quantification, robust optimization, treatment plan automation, GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo for online adaptive therapy, generation of proton plans database
Shervin Assassi
Professor · McGovern Medical School
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research focuses on elucidating the pathogenesis and determinant of disease severity/treatment response in systemic sclerosis. Systemic sclerosis is a multisystem, autoimmune disease which leads to extensive fibrosis of skin and internal organs. Systemic sclerosis is associate…
Shiqin Su
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
My research focuses on leveraging advanced machine learning techniques to enhance radiation therapy planning, with a particular emphasis on automated dose prediction and optimization of planning constraints. By integrating AI-driven models with clinical data, my work aims to stre…
Simon Eschweiler
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Immunotherapies have become crucial treatment options for a variety of cancer types. However, fewer than 30% of people respond to a given therapy. Agonistic immunotherapies were initially considered to mainly activate the CD8+ T cell compartment, without appreciating potential ef…
Simon Young
Associate Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, School of Dentistry
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Dr. Young's research efforts include the synthesis and characterization of implantable biomaterials designed to elicit in situ cell recruitment and programming. His work includes the use of materials able to simultaneously deliver multiple bioactive factors with distinct release …
Simone Krebs
Associate Professor · University of MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The primary focus of the Krebs Laboratory is the development and preclinical evaluation of imaging and theranostic agents including in conjunction with cellular engineering. Our bench-to-bedside research program includes chemistry, cellular biology, immunology, animal research, a…
Souvik Bhattacharyya
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Our multidisciplinary research combines genetics, molecular biology, evolution, systems biology, big data, and mathematical modeling to study how bacterial behaviors impact antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Bacteria are rapidly developing resistance to existing antimicrobials, depl…
Stephen Kry
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My research is primarily directed at evaluating and improving the quality of radiation therapy. This includes evaluating institutional audit results done as part of clinical trial credentialing – understanding why institution's fail these audits and how to improve their performan…
Sunil Krishnan
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Research in the Krishnan Nanotechnology and Radiation Biology Laboratory at the Center for Translational Cancer Research in the Institute of Molecular Medicine and in the Neurosurgery Department in McGovern Medical School focuses on strategies to (i) sensitize tumors to radiation…
Susan Bullman
Associate Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our research program investigates the complex interactions between the tumor microenvironment (TME) and the microbiome, with a particular focus on understanding how the intratumoral microbiota influences cancer progression, immune modulation, and therapy response. Using innovativ…
Swathi Arur
PhD Candidate · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
regulation and execution of RAS-ERK signaling; germ cell development; C. elegans genetics
Taichi Goto
Assistant Professor · Cizik School of Nursing
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
pain, wound healing, dementia, cancer, psychoneurological symptoms, biomarkers, neuroimmune mechanisms, biobehavioral science, microneedle drug delivery, translational neuroscience
Tao Wang
Associate Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
I lead a top AI-for-science lab at MD Anderson Cancer Center, specializing in the development and deployment of AI-driven solutions for immunology discovery. Our interdisciplinary research integrates machine learning, statistics, medicine, and biology to extract meaningful insigh…
Theresa Guise
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Metabolic complications of cancer and cancer treatment-induced bone destruction: Role of TGFβ-mediated oxidation 1) Research Accomplishments: The Guise laboratory described the molecular mechanisms of bone metastases, the role of TGFβ in the tumor-bone microenvironment and cancer…
Tingting Mills
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students
Seeking PhD Students
My research is primarily centered on elucidating the molecular mechanisms regulating various human diseases, including idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), systemic sclerosis (SSc), and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). My major research projects are highlighted below:
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Travis Moore
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School at UT Health Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Cellular adhesion and migration require an intricate orchestration of membrane receptors and the cytoskeleton to transduce bidirectional force from extracellular substrates. When dysregulated, a myriad of pathologies can emerge from decreased immune extravasation (leukocyte adhes…
Vahid Serpooshan
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My research program focuses on developing advanced 3D bioprinting, biomaterials, and stem cell–based platforms to model human development and disease and to engineer next-generation regenerative therapies, with a particular emphasis on cardiovascular and pediatric diseases. By in…
Valeria Vasquez-Robaina
Associate Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My group is working to uncover the mechanisms by which the plasma membrane modulates the function of mechanosensitive ion channels. Members of the mechanosensitive ion channel family mediate rapid cation influx in response to mechanical cues. In mammals, the PIEZO subfamily has t…
Vasanthi Jayaraman
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Structure and function of membrane proteins
Venugopal Reddy Venna
Assistant Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Basic and translational stroke research, ischemic stroke, novel therapeutic approaches to improve ischemic stroke outcomes, reducing neuronal death, enhancing post-stroke recovery, post-stroke depression, cognitive impairment.
Veronika Fedirko
Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
Research in my lab is concentrated on: 1) biomarkers and predictors of risk for colorectal cancer recurrence and mortality, 2) colorectal neoplasm prevention by chemopreventive agents such as vitamin D, calcium, and aspirin, and 3) investigating individual and combined effects o…
Victor Lopez del Amo
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
The Lopez del Amo laboratory research program presents two different research lines: 1. Investigating CRISPR-based technologies for population control: We develop and test new forms of CRISPR-based genome editing approaches to control mosquito populations and potentially reduce t…
Vihang Narkar
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
My laboratory is primarily interested in investigating nuclear hormone receptors as potential therapeutic targets in skeletal muscle associated diseases. Currently we are focused on estrogen-related receptors. We have so far demonstrated that these receptors transcriptionally reg…
Vincent Bernard
Assistant Professor · University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking PhD Students
Our laboratory takes a systems oncology approach to gastrointestinal malignancies, integrating single cell and spatial transcriptomics, functional genomics, and radiation biology to define the molecular circuits that govern tumor initiation, clonal evolution, and therapy resistan…
Wantong Yao
Assistant Professor · The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
⭐ A tutorial in my laboratory will provide mentoring and hands-on experience with extensive training in topics and basic/advanced techniques that will be imperative for initiating a successful research career. A student joining the lab would also join a wide collaboration network across MD Anderson an…
The long-term goal of my laboratory is to build up a highly successful research team and work closely with fellow scientists and physicians to continue exploring the basic and translational problems of pancreatic cancer. We are currently using proteomic, genetic, molecular biolog…
Wei Cao
Professor · McGovern Medical School, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
⭐ Seeking MS Students, Seeking PhD Students
My lab's research focuses on neuroinflammation accompanying neurodegenerative processes, esp. Alzheimer's disease (AD). In the past decade, neuroinflammation is increasingly recognized as a major contributor to the pathogenesis of a wide range of neurological diseases. By analyzi…
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