Current Students

• Swetha Anandhan
  

  
  sanandhan@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD

  Immune checkpoint therapy resistance, myeloid cell heterogeneity, single cell genomics, CyTOF

• Rachel Babcock
  

  
  rdziuk@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.

  Murine dendritic cell (DC) function, transcriptional regulation, molecular biology

• Anchit Bhagat
  

  
  abhagat@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Eugenie Kleinerman, M.D.

  doxorubicin, cardiotoxicity, innate immune system, neutrophils, macrophages, resolution of inflammation

• Akash Boda
  

  
  arboda@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michael A. Curran, PhD

  cGAS-STING signaling, TREX1, Dendritic cells, Immunotherapy

• Apoorvi Chaudhri
  

  
  Apoorvi.Chaudhri@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Dr. Patrick Hwu, M.D.

• Xiaoyun Cheng
  

  
  xcheng4@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Sattva Neelapu, MD

  cancer immunotherapy, CAR T cell therapy; tumor microenvironment, macrophages

• Renee Chin
  

  
  RChin@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: James Allison, PhD

  oncolytic Newcastle disease virus, tumor-associated T cell dysfunction

• Taylor Chrisikos
  

  
  ttchrisikos@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Stephanie Watowich, Ph.D.

  Dendritic cell (DC) function in tumor microenvironment, STAT3 regulation of DC function

• Michael Clowers
  

  
  MJClowers@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Seyed Javad Moghaddam, PhD

  Tumor-promoting inflammation, IL-6/STAT3 signaling, estrogen signaling, K-ras mutant lung cancer

• Alexandria Cogdill
  

  
  apcogdill@gmail.com
  Advisor: Jennifer Wargo, M.D. / James Allison, Ph.D.

  precision medicine, immuno-oncology, biomarkers, microbiome, mucosal immunology, global health

• Colm Duffy
  

  
  
  Advisor: James Allison, PhD

• Haven Garber
  

  
  
  Advisor: Jeffrey Molldrem, MD

• Renato Guerrieri
  

  
  RGuerrieri@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michael Davies, PhD

  melanoma brain metastasis, immunotherapy resistance, metabolism, CyTOF, scRNAseq

• Farah Hasan
  

  
  farah.hasan@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Cassian Yee, MD

  T-cell biology, tissue resident memory T-cells, adoptive T-cell therapy, hypoxia, TGF-beta

• Jared Henderson
  

  
  jmhenderson1@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: R. Eric Davis, MD

  Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma, B-cell receptor signaling, tolerance evasion, functional genomics

• Paulina Horton
  

  
  paulina.horton@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Pamela Wenzel, PhD

  HSC development and specification, biomechanical force, metabolism

• Jeffrey How
  

  
  jahow@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Amir Jazaeri, PhD

• Paul Hung
  

  
  SHung@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Patrick Hwu, MD

• Kyle Jackson
  

  
  Krjackson1@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Gregory Lizee, PhD

  peptide-HLA interactions, HLA immunopeptidome characterization, tumor peptide antigen discovery

• Yimei Jin
  

  
  YJin3@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Robert Jenq. PhD

• Laura Kahn
  

  
  
  Advisor: Stephanie Watowich

• Mecit Kaplan
  

  
  MKaplan@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Katy Rezvani, PhD

• Vikram Kulkarni
  

  
  vikram.kulkarni@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Scott Evans, MD

  Innate immunity, Toll like receptors, pneumonia, inducible resistance

• Spencer Lea
  

  
  STLea@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michael A. Curran, PhD

• Ye (Ethan) Li
  

  
  ye.li@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Katy Rezvani, PhD

  cellular engineering and anti-tumor therapy, nature killer cell signaling and function, chimeric antigen receptor modification   

• Arthur Liu
  

  
  aliu2@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michael A. Curran, PhD

  Hypoxia, resistance to immune checkpoint blockade therapy

• Jielin Liu
  

  
  Jliu20@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Padmanee Sharma, MD, PhD

  immunotherapy, resistance, CRISPR screening

• Wei-Hsin Liu
  

  
  WLiu12@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Yair Reisner, PhD

  GVHD, Immune tolerance, cellular and immunotherapy

• Brittany Morrow
  

  
  bcharlton@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Michael A. Curran, PhD

• Sara Murphy
  

  
  sara.murphy@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Balveen Kaur, PhD

  oncolytic virotherapy, immunotherapy, immunomodulation, cancer, viruses, translational research

• Thao Nguyen
  

  
  Thao.K.Nguyen@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Jeffrey Actor, PhD

• Sumedha Pareek
  

  
  spareek1@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Keri Schadler, PhD

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