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BIG-TCR

Cancer and Artificial Intelligence Research


MENTORS


All program mentors are distinguished cancer researchers with strong record of mentorship and with appointments in UTHealth Houston. They represent 6 schools (McWilliams, MMS, SPH, GSBS, CSN, SD) and several organized research centers (such as UTHealth Houston CGC, DISCCR).


Tentative List of BIG-TCR Faculty Mentors

We initially searched a list of cancer researchers within UTHealth. They could tentatively serve as the BIG-TCR Faculty mentor. Applicants may contact them to serve as the primary mentor and complementary co-mentor. This list is tentative and to be updated.

Biomedical Informatics, Genomics (BIG) Faculty

Faculty Name

Title

Research Field
Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D., MS Professor Genomics, Cancer Precision Medicine, DS, AI
Jeffrey Chang, Ph.D. Associate Professor Cancer biology & Genomics

Xiaoqian Jiang, Ph.D.

Professor

Genome Privacy, AI, DS
Luca Giancardo, Ph.D Associate Professor Medical Imaging, DS

W. Jim Zheng, Ph.D., MS

Professor

Bioinformatics, Functional Genomics, DS

Xiaobo Zhou, Ph.D.

Professor

Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, AI, Imaging

Elmer Bernstam, MD, MSE

Professor

Clinical Informatics

Licong Cui, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Informatics, Ontology, DS

Sahiti Myneni, Ph.D., MSE

Associate Professor

Social Network Informatics, DS

Sheng Pan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Cancer Proteomics

Kirk Roberts, Ph.D., MS

Assistant Professor

Biomedical informatics, DS

Pora Kim, Ph.D., MS

Assistant Professor

Fusion gene, Cancer Genomics

Kuang-Lei Tsai, Ph.D., MS

Assistant Professor

Structural Omics

Hulin Wu, Ph.D., MS

Professor

Biostatics, Bioinformatics, DS

Jiaqian Wu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Genomics, Single Cell Omics, Stem Cell

Guo-Qiang Zhang, Ph.D., MS

Professor

DS, Biomedical Informatics

Translational Cancer Research (TCR) Faculty

Faculty Name

Title

Research Field

Xiaotian Zhang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor 

3D Genome

Sunil Krishnan Ph.D.

Professor

Radiation Therapy, Nanotechnology, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Cancer
Guangwei Du, Ph.D.

Professor

Metabolism
Hui-Wen Lo, Ph.D.

Professor

Breast cancer, Brain Tumo

Zhiqiang An, Ph.D.

Professor

Cancer Drug Discovery

John Hancock, Ph.D.

Professor

Cancer Drug Discovery, Translational Cancer Research

Dung-Fang Lee, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Stem Cell, Therapeutic Target, Cancer Drug

Wenbo Li, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Functional Genomics, Cancer Genomics, Biotech

Mellissa Aldrich, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Immunology, NIRF Imaging

Leomar Ballester, MD, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Neuropathology, Brain Tumor

Kendra Carmon, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Cancer Antibody Drug

Catherine Denicourt, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Cell Cycle, Cancer Biology

Jeffrey Frost, Ph.D.

Professor

Cancer Biology

Alemayehu Gorfe, Ph.D.

Professor

Cancer Pharmacology

John Hagan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Therapeutic Target, MicroRNA

Cynthia Ju, Ph.D.

Professor

Liver cancer, Liver disease

Wenliang Li, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Cancer Drug Discovery

Qingyun Liu, Ph.D.

Professor

Cancer Drug Discovery, Cancer Stem Cell

Kristin Mahan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Circadian, Cancer Metabolism

Nami McCarty, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Lymphoma, Therapeutic Target

Eva Sevick, Ph.D.

Professor

Cancer Molecular Imaging

AI: Artificial intelligence. DS: Data science. NIRF: Near-infrared fluorescence.

If you have any question, feel free to contact the BIG-TCR Executive Committee via [email protected].