Lab Members

Andy Futreal, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Chair, Genomic Medicine
Chair ad interim, Systems Biology
Professor, Genomic Medicine

Sabitha Prabhakaran, Ph.D.
Scientific Manager

Kadir Akdemir, Ph.D.
Instructor
Ph.D. from MD Anderson Cancer Center
Originally from Siirt, Turkey
Research Interests:

• 3D chromatin organization
• Genomic instability
• Somatic mutational processes

Joshua Baguley, M.S.
Research Assistant II

Hannah C. Beird, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Ph.D. from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Originally from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Research Interests:

• Multi-omics profiling of rare cancers
• Genomic bases for response and resistance to cancer therapies
• Germline predisposition to cancer

Marcus Coyle, M.H.A.
Senior Research Assistant

Jennifer Goldstein, M.D.
Clinical Specialist
M.D. from George Washington University
Currently completing Ph.D. at MD Anderson Cancer Center
Originally from Los Angeles, California
Research interests:

• Familial pancreatic cancer
• Pancreatic cancer novel therapeutics and resistance
• Functional genomics

Curtis Gumbs
Scientific Manager

Latasha Little
Laboratory Manager
B.S. from North Carolina State University
Originally from Hoffman, North Carolina

Christigale Mandapat
Senior Research Assistant
B.S. from St. Edward’s University
Originally from Beaumont, Texas

Akash Mitra
Graduate Research Assistant
Ph.D. Candidate in Quantitative Sciences, Bioinformatics
B.S. from Rutgers University
Originally from Calcutta, India
Research Interests:

• Spatial intratumor heterogeneity
• Determinants of response to immunotherapy
• Molecular characterization of the tumor microenvironment
• Biomarkers of vulnerability
• Molecular determinants of metastasis

Rebecca Thornton
Research Investigator
Originally from Texas
Research Interests: Technical aspects of NGS