Lab Members
The Enderling Laboratory is in the process of moving from the Moffitt Cancer Center. We currently have lab members at MD Anderson and Moffitt Cancer Center.
Heiko Enderling, Ph.D.
Professor, Radiation Oncology
HEnderling@MDAnderson.org
Past President, Society for Mathematical Biology
Fellow, Society for Mathematical Biology
Mohammad Zahid, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Mohammad Zahid received his Ph.D. in bioengineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2018, where he worked in Andrew Smith’s lab and developed tools for quantitative molecular imaging. Since then, he’s been working in the Enderling Lab on mathematical models of response to various types of cancer treatment (e.g., radiotherapy, immunotherapy, photodynamic therapy) with a focus on modeling metrics for and shifts in tumor and immune dynamics.
Maureiq Ojwang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maureiq received her Ph.D. in biomathematics from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina. She is interested in exploring biological processes using network, mathematical and agent-based modeling of dynamical systems. More specifically, her research interests include a data-driven understanding of tumor-immune-microenvironment interactions with respect to personalized therapy options. Outside work, she enjoys dancing, running and cat sitting.
Pirmin Schlicke, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Pirmin is an applied mathematician who works on simulating and predicting the interconnectivity of metastatic disease by the immune system, and systemic responses to local radiotherapy. He is also interested in spatial statistics of biopsy tissues.
Aleksandra Aiurova
University of Houston Masters Student
Tiffany Nguyen
University of Houston Masters Student
Rayne Crenshaw
Research Intern
Rayne Crenshaw is a senior in the International Baccalaureate program at Land O’Lakes High School in Florida. She recently completed the High School Internship Program in Integrated Mathematical Oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center, which was her introduction to research and coding. During the eight week program, she explored whether spatial statistics can be used to predict the migration and proliferation parameters of an unknown tumor. She is now continuing this project and exploring a broader range of parameter uncertainties as an intern at MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Roshan Dongre
Research Intern
Roshan Dongre is a medical student in the Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine. Prior to medical school he was a software engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS) as well as at several trading firms in Chicago, Philadelphia and NYC. He is interested in applying his software background to medical research to improve the lives of his future patients.
Ashna Patel
Research Intern
Ashna Patel is a second-year undergraduate student at Northwestern University majoring in biomedical engineering and an undergraduate research intern in Enderling Lab. Her previous research involved using an agent-based model to determine trends in tumor invasion speed and developing sets of synthetic patients to train a machine learning algorithm to correctly predict recurrence outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer patients. Her current research involves working with mathematical models of radiation therapy.