Meet the Team
Principal Investigator
Professor, Cancer Systems Imaging
Deputy Chair, Cancer Systems Imaging
Scientific Director of Research, Cancer Systems Imaging
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Duke University School of Medicine, North Carolina
Ph.D., Tulane University, Louisiana
B.S., University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Research interests: Metabolic and signaling pathways that define prostate cancer aggressiveness and treatment resistance; tumor biology; metabolomics; diet-microenvironment interactions; genetics; cell death; endocrinology
Faculty and Scientists
Instructor, Cancer Systems Imaging
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California San Francisco, California
Postdoctoral Fellowship, MD Anderson
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India
M.S., VIT University, India
B.S., Thiruvalluvar University, India
Research interests: Decoding the metabolic dependencies and their interaction with epigenetic changes in prostate cancer; understanding the molecular drivers of cancer plasticity for the development of novel therapeutic strategies; metabolic markers identification for non-invasive cancer detection and assessment of therapy response
Xianghong Kuang, M.D.
Research Scientist
M.D., West China University of Medical Sciences (now West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University), China
M.S., West China University of Medical Sciences (now West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University), China
Research interests: Genetic, epigenetic and metabolomic mechanisms; novel translational interventions for advanced variant prostate cancer
Data Scientists and Technicians
Mollianne Murray, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Ph.D., MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
M.S., MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
B.A., University of Virginia
Research interests: Personalized cancer therapy; metabolism and its role in cancer therapy; therapeutic strategies in prostate cancer
Jenny J. Han
Senior Research Data Coordinator
Postdocs and Fellows
Thomas Pulliam
Postdoctoral Fellow
Brittany Jewell
Postdoctoral Fellow
Administrative Staff
Sara Mitchell
Office Supervisor
Students and Trainees
Mirrah Bashir, M.S.
Graduate Research Assistant
Ryan Benamar
Undergraduate Student, UT Austin
Pham Hong-Anh ¡°Nikki¡± Cao
Graduate Research Assistant
F. Ester Lujan, B.S.
Graduate Student
Emily Porter
Undergraduate Student
Jiaqian Xu
Visiting Graduate Student
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