Current Students

• Marisa Aitken
  

  
  mjhornbaker@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Sean Post, Ph.D.

  acute myeloid leukemia, hematopoiesis, hnRNP K, RNA splicing, RNA binding proteins, mouse models

• 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
  

  
  
  Advisor: Michael Curran

• Sherille Bradley
  

  
  
  Advisor: Gregory Lizee, PhD

• Apoorvi Chaudhri
  

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

• Chao-Hsien Chen
  

  
  
  Advisor: Michael Curran, Ph.D.

  reversal of neurodegeneration by engineered monocytes, novel immune competent glioblastoma models

• 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

• Caitlin Creasy
  

  
  cacreasy@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Chantale Bernatchez, Ph.D.

  biomarkers, adoptive cell therapy, tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, rare tumors

• John d'Aigle
  

  
  John.daigle@uth.tmc.edu
  Advisor: Louise McCullough MD, PhD

  Ischemic stroke, hydrogel, ATP, immune invasion, glial scar, injury repair, microglia, astrocytes

• 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

• Kyle Jackson
  

  
  Krjackson1@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Gregory Lizee, PhD

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

• Shiping Jiao
  

  
  
  Advisor: Padmanee Sharma

• Laura Kahn
  

  
  
  Advisor: Stephanie Watowich

• Vikram Kulkarni
  

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

  Innate immunity, Toll like receptors, pneumonia, inducible resistance

• Yi (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

• Sara Murphy
  

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

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

• Donastas Sakellariou-Thompson
  

  
  dasakellariou@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Chantale Bernatchez, PhD; Patrick Hwu, MD

  tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes, adoptive cell therapy, pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer

• Rosa Santana Carrero
  

  
  rsantana@mdanderson.org
  Advisor: Kimberly Schluns, PhD

  tumor microenvironment, CD8 T cells, interleukins, infiltration, exhaustion, metabolism 

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