Lab Members
Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar
GKarras@MDAnderson.org
Research interests: Roles of HSP90 in aging; molecular underpinnings of robustness to genetic and environmental perturbations; mechanisms of stress-induced genome instability in cancer evolution; functional genomics; biochemistry; cancer biology; quantitative genetics
Research Staff
Beryl John
Research Lab Coordinator
BCJohn@MDAnderson.org
Patricia Montes
Research Assistant I
PMontes@MDAnderson.org
Postdoctoral Fellows
Tin Pham, Ph.D.
TCPham1@MDAnderson.org
"Investigating HSP90 roles in drug resistant cancer"
Graduate Students
Ruei-Liang Yan, M.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Genetics and Epigenetics Program
RYan1@MDAnderson.org
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Xing-Han Zhang, B.S.
MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Genetics and Epigenetics Program
2025, Training In Precision Environmental Health Sciences (TPEHS) Program, NIEHS Grant No. T32 ES027801-06
College Students
Shriman Chittoor
Rice University
SChittoor@MDAnderson.org
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Zoe Wang
Rice University
ZYWang@MDAnderson.org
Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Melody Mazon
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018¨C2021
Upasna Thapar
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019¨C2020
New position: Medical Writer at Envision Pharma
Brant Gracia, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2018¨C2024
2021¨C2024, NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Postdoctoral Individual National Research Service Award F32CA253780
2023 Dodie P. Hawn Award in Genetics
New position: Research Associate, UT Austin
College Students
Leenah Abojaib
Undergraduate Student, 2019
Rice University
Kian Behmard
2019 CPRIT CURE Summer Research Program
Emory University
Selena Ding
2020 & 2021 CPRIT CURE Summer Research Program
University of California Berkeley, Molecular Cell Biology/Developmental Genetics
Lily Didcock
Undergraduate Student, 2020¨C2021
Rice University, Bioengineering
Annette Jones
Undergraduate Student, 2020¨C2021
Rice University, Chemistry
Anvita Kandru
Undergraduate Student, 2019
Rice University
Lauren Kearns
Volunteer, summer 2022
Texas A&M University
Priya Trakru
Undergraduate Student, 2020¨C2021
Rice University, Biological Sciences
Matthew Yonas
Undergraduate Student, 2020¨C2021
Rice University, Biological Sciences
Xing-Han Zhang
2020 CPRIT CURE Summer Research Program
Texas A&M University
Manas Gupta
2023 CPRIT CURE Summer Research Program
New position:Pursuing a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Â鶹ӳ» at Austin
Morike Ayodeji
Undergraduate Student, 2022¨C2024
Rice University, Cognitive Sciences
2024, Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarship
Research Staff
Natalia Condic
Research Assistant II, 2021¨C2024
New position: Case Western Houston Master of Science in Anesthesia Class of 2027
Silas Amarell
Research Assistant II, 2019
New position: Senior Research Associate at Roche
Hatim Amiji
Research Technician, 2020¨C2021
Undergraduate student at Rice University, Biological Sciences, 2019¨C2020
New position: Medical Student, Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine
Gabriela Lang Pedro de Costa
Research Technician, 2019¨C2020
Tania Jones
Research Assistant II, 2023¨C2024
Nejla Ozirmak Lermi, M.S.
Research Assistant II, 2021¨C2022
New position: Bioinformatics, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Dipak Patel
Research Assistant I, 2018¨C2020
New Position: Graduate Student, Baylor College of Medicine, Genetics & Genomics Graduate Program
Youssef Sabha
Research Assistant I, 2018¨C2020
New Position: Graduate Student, Rutgers University, Multidisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Sciences
Anna Tanaka
Research Technician, 2019¨C2020
New Position: Medical Student, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Volunteer High School Students
Sara Anees
Lone Star College, summer 2022
Lishore Kumar
Tomball Memorial High School, summer 2022
Nikitha Kota
Carnegie Vanguard High School, 2021¨C2022
2022 Carl B. & Florence E. King Foundation High School Summer Program in Biomedical Sciences
Current position: Rice University
Isabel Qin
Hamilton High School in Chandler, Arizona, 2022
Antaraa Sarkar
Dulles High School, summer 2023