Klementina Fon Tacer, DVM, PhD

Director

Expertise: Stem cells, Spermatogenesis, Cancer-Testis Antigens, Cancer Metabolism, Stress

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Wei Li, PhD

Associate Director

Expertise: Responsive LbL nanofilms, Cell microenvironments, Soft materials, Exosomes, Cell capture and release, Biomedical microdevices

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering

Fernanda Rosa MS, PhD

Co-leader

Expertise: Metabolism, Nutrition, Immune system

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Heidi Villalba, Ph.D.

Co-leader

Expertise: Cancer cell lines and primary cultures

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Stephanie Myers, DVM, PhD, DACVP

Co-leader

Expertise: Anatomic pathology, Pancreatic adenocarcinoma

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Jenny Wilkerson, PhD

Co-leader

Expertise: Cancer pain, natural products, neuron to glia

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Mahmoud Salama Ahmed, PhD

Co-leader

Expertise: Metabolism, Signaling casade, Cancer, Drug development

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Laszlo M. Hunyadi, DVM, MS, DACVIM (LAIM)

Advisory Board Member

Expertise: Equine medicine, Equine tumors

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Nancy Zimmerman, DVM, MS, CCRT, DACVS

Advisory Board Member

Expertise: Companion animal surgeon

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Lauren Gollahon, PhD

Advisory Board Member

Expertise: Breast cancer, Cancer metabolism, Natural cancer therapeutics

Affiliation: Texas Tech University College of Arts and Sciences

Nadezhda German, PhD

Advisory Board Member

Expertise: Medicinal chemistry

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Andrey Karamyshev, PhD

Advisory Board Member

Expertise: Protein translation, Protein biochemistry

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Annelise Nguyen, PhD

Member and Associate Dean for Research

Expertise: Cancer biology, Hormonal carcinogenesis, Toxicology Organoids

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Emily Sundman, DVM, DABVP

Member

Expertise: Clinical Trial Design, Equine Therapeutics, and Diagnostics

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Guy Loneragan, DVM, PhD

Member and Dean

Expertise: Epidemiology

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

John Gibbons, MS, PhD

Member

Expertise: In vitro fertilization, bovine, embryo

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Jon Thompson, MS, PhD

Member and Assistant Dean

Expertise: Analytical chemistry, mass spectrometry, elemental analysis

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Marcelo Schmidt, PhD

Member

Expertise: Sharepoint, data management, data analysis

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Michael Cruz Penn, DVM, PhD

Member

Expertise: Pathology

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Nanny Wenzlow, DVM, MRCVS, PhD, Dipl. ACVP

Member

Expertise: Forenisc veterinary pathology

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Olufemi Akinkuoto, DVM, MVSc, PhD

Member

Expertise: Parasite, Co-infection, CRISPR

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Prasanth K. Chelikani, BVSc, MVSc, PhD, FTOS

Member and Assistant Dean

Expertise: Physiology, Nutrition, Obesity, Diabetes

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Clarissa Strieder-Barboza, DVM, PhD

Member

Expertise: Obesity

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Department of Veterinary Sciences and School of Veterinary Medicine

Amanda Brown, PhD

Member

Expertise: Microbiome

Affiliation: Texas Tech University College of Arts and Sciences

Kuan-Hui (Ethan) Chen, PhD

Member

Expertise: Tumor stem cells, Immune regulation, Hormones, Tumor metabolites

Affiliation: Texas Tech University College of Arts and Sciences

Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa, PhD

Member

Expertise: Metabolism

Affiliation: Texas Tech University College of Human Sciences

Beverly S. Chilton, PhD

Member

Expertise: Helicase-like transcription factor, colorectal cancer, pancreatic beta cell

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Jannette Dufour, PhD

Member

Expertise: Sertoli cells, Immune regulation, Diabetes

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Igor Ponomarev, PhD

Member

Expertise: Single-cell RNA sequencing

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Josee Guindon, PhD

Member

Expertise: Cannabinoids, Ovarian cancer, Breast cancer

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Srinivas Nandana, PhD

Member

Expertise: Prostate cancer, exosomes, cell-cell signaling in cancer

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Tetyana L. Vasylyeva

Member

Expertise: Nephrotoxicity, prevention, rare disease

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Zemfira Karamysheva, PhD

Member

Expertise: Protein translation, CRISPR

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Changxue Xu

Member

Expertise: 3D bioprinting, cancer cell migration and invasion, tumor microenvironment (TMC)

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering

Indrajit Srivastava, PhD

Member

Expertise: Diagnostics, drug delivery, nanoparticles, biomimicry

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering

Sun Hee Yim, PhD

Member

Expertise: Proteomics, Metabolomics, Mass spectrometry, Data analysis

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering

Abraham Al-Ahmad, PhD, MS

Member

Expertise: Blood-Brain Barrier, Drug Permeability, Drug Transporters

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Hiranmoy Das, PhD

Member

Expertise: Stem cells, CAR-T cells

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Ulrich Bickel, MD, PhD

Member

Expertise: Blood-brain-barrier

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Barbara Breznik

Associate Member

Expertise: Cancer biology, glioma, therapeutic targets

Affiliation: National Institute of Biology

Constantinos Mikelis, PhD

Associate Member

Expertise: Cancer angiogenesis, RhoA GTPases, Metastasis

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Margarita Lamprou

Associate Member

Expertise: Tumor microenvironment, angiogenesis, metastasis

Affiliation: University of Patras Department of Pharmacy

Andriana Plevriti

Associate Member

Expertise: Vascular physiology, angiogenesis, metastasis

Affiliation: University of Patras Department of Pharmacy

Antonia Marazioti

Associate Member

Expertise: Animal models of disease, thoracic migraines, oncogenes

Affiliation: University of Patras Department of Pharmacy

Elias Liolis, MD, MSc, cPhD

Associate Member

Expertise: Medical oncology, molecular biology, PK/PD

Affiliation: University of Patras Department of Pharmacy

Brooke Foster

Junior Member

Expertise: Melanoma, MAGEs, equine cancer

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Denis Stepihar

Junior Member

Expertise: Neurobiology, Proteomics, Molecular biology

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Farzana Popy

Junior Member

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Juan Diego Tejeda Echeverry

Junior Member

Expertise: Predictive Analytics,Process Optimization, AI Integration

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Luciana Mayer Klüppel

Junior Member

Expertise: Therapy, diagnostic, genotyping

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Maria Camila Hoyos Sanchez

Junior Member

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Rafaela Rodrigues dos Santos

Junior Member

Expertise: Immunology, colostrum, nutrition

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Rebecca Florke Gee, PhD

Junior Member

Expertise: Cancer, research, biology

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

SaraBeth Boggan

Junior Member

Expertise: Parasitology, wildlife, one health

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Sarah Cate Hyde

Junior Member

Expertise: Genotyping, PCR, DNA gel electrophoresis

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Sima Tozandehjani

Junior Member

Expertise: Cancer microenvironment, cancer metabolism, cancer therapy

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Tara Bayat

Junior Member

Expertise: Prader-Willi Syndrome, Hormonal Regulation, Translation

Affiliation: Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine

Cristian Camilo Rodriguez Almonacid

Junior Member

Expertise: Molecular biology, bioinformatics, drug resistance

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Melissa McHann

Junior Member

Expertise: Ovarian & breast cancer, cannabinoids, chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Robert Barnes

Junior Member

Expertise: Ovarian & breast cancer, cannabinoids, pain

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine

Rayna Bandy

Junior Member

Expertise: Combination therapy, mechanistic studies, structural activity relationship studies

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Sadisna Shahi

Junior Member

Expertise: Medicinal chemistry, synthesis, discovery

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Yuma Ortiz

Junior Member

Expertise: Natural products, peripheral neuropathy, chemotherapy

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Jerry H. Hodge School of Pharmacy

Asma Harun

Junior Member

Expertise: Fluorescence, multimodality, tumor targeting

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering

Isabella Vasquez

Junior Member

Expertise: Nanoparticles, biomimetic, tumor-targeting

Affiliation: Texas Tech University Edward E. Whitacre Jr. College of Engineering