|
Carleigh Klusmanwill graduate with her M.D. degree from Baylor College of Medicine in 2024. She received her B.S. in Biomolecular Sciences with a minor in Classic Civilizations at the University of Michigan. She has worked with M.D. Anderson’s Interventional Radiology research department throughout her graduate degree. Her interests involve interventional radiology, medical devices, and nanoparticles.
|
|
Benjamin Martin received his B.S. degree in the Department of Biological Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2020. Now, he is a dual M.D./M.B.A. candidate at Baylor College of Medicine and Rice University in Houston, Texas. His current research interests include devices, nanomaterials, nanotechnology, and surgery.
|
|
Joy Vanessa Perezreceived her B.S. degree in 2011 from the National Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of the University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. She is currently a candidate for an M.D.-Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine degree from the College of Medicine, University of the Philippines Manila, Manila, Philippines. For her Ph.D. dissertation, she was a visiting research scholar at the Department of Interventional Radiology of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Her research interests include the development and utilization of nanomaterials in medical devices for diagnostic and therapeutic applications.
|
|
Allan John R. Barcenareceived his B.S. degree in the College of Public Health at the University of the Philippines Manila. He is currently an M.D.-Ph.D. candidate in the College of Medicine at the University of the Philippines Manila, and a predoctoral research fellow in the Department of Interventional Radiology at the University of the Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. His research interests include the development of biopolymeric medical devices as well as cell-based therapies for clinically challenging conditions, such as arteriovenous fistula failure.
|
|
Marvin R. Bernardinois currently a research data coordinator in the Department of Interventional Radiology at the University of the Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. His research interests include data science, 3D printing, and animal microsurgery.
|
|
Erin Marie San Valentinis a visiting research scholar in the Department of Interventional Radiology at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. Currently, she is working on developing novel radiopaque resorbable inferior vena filters in porcine models. Her research interests also include the development of targeted nano-drug delivery systems for possible theranostic applications in cancer.
|
|
Jossana A. Damascoreceived her Ph.D. degree in the Department of Chemistry from SUNY University at Buffalo in 2018. She then conducted her postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Interventional Radiology at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from 2018 to 2022. She now works at nanoComposix (Fortis Life Sciences) as a Research Scientist, developing custom nanoparticles for various applications.
|
|
Huckie Del Mundoreceived his M.D. degree from the University of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines, in 2014, as well as his Master of Bioengineering degree from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 2021. Now, he works as a bioengineer in the field of three-dimensional drug testing model platform development. His interests involve biomaterials and bioprinting.
|
|
Karem A. Courtreceived her Ph.D. in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico in 2016. Currently, she is working as a postdoctoral fellow at Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, Texas, U.S.A. Her research interests are nanomedicine and lipid nanoparticles for mRNA delivery.
|
|
Biana Godinearned her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the School of Pharmacy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Nanotechnology at the Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston. Dr. Godin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nanomedicine at Houston Methodist Research Institute and Weill Cornell Medicine College. Her current research focus is on the design and characterization of clinically relevant systems for drug and RNA delivery in different tissue interfaces, including the liver microenvironment, skin barrier, placental barrier, blood–brain barrier, tumor microenvironment, and aerial-microvascular (lung) barrier.
|
|
Gino Martin Canlasobtained his B.S. in Chemistry at the University of the Philippines, Diliman, and his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Houston in 2015, working on a rhodium-catalyzed [4+2+2] cycloaddition. He is an Instructor of Chemistry at Lamar University since 2017 and his research interests involve the development of novel materials and compounds for biomedical and catalytic applications.
|
|
Natalie Wall Fowlkesreceived her B.S. degree in the Department of Animal Sciences from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A. in 2006. She received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine (D.V.M.) from Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine in 2010 and completed her residency training in anatomic pathology in 2013. She received a Ph.D. in Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences in the Department of Pathobiological Sciences from LSU School of Veterinary Medicine in 2018. She is currently a comparative pathologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.
|
|
Richard Bouchardreceived his B.S. degree in biomedical and electrical engineering and cultural anthropology from Duke University in 2004 and received his Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University in 2010. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Ultrasound Imaging and Therapeutics Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin in 2012. Dr. Bouchard is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Imaging Physics at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center where he directs the Photoacoustic Imaging Research Lab. His research interests include translational photoacoustic-ultrasonic imaging.
|
|
Jizhong Chengreceived his M.D. degree from Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, the People’s Republic of China, in 1991. Now he is a principal investigator at the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. His research interests mainly focus on the cellular and molecular pathological changes that are related to arteriovenous fistula maturation failure, vascular diseases in chronic kidney disease and renal fibrosis.
|
|
Steven Y. Huanghis B.S. in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed both his radiology residency and vascular interventional radiology fellowship at Duke University. Subsequently, Dr. Huang joined the M.D. Anderson faculty in 2011 and currently holds the title of Professor and Director of Clinical Program & Operations. He is board-certified by the American Board of Radiology and holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in Interventional Radiology. His research interests include the development of resorbable medical devices and portal vein embolization.
|
|
Marites Melanconearned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry from the University of San Carlos and Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines), respectively. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Science at The University of Texas-Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Science and then trained in the Department of Imaging Physics as an Odyssey Fellow at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. She joined the Department of Interventional Radiology in 2012, where she is currently a tenured Professor. Dr. Melancon’s research is on the synthesis, characterization, and in vivo evaluation of multimodality and multifunctional nanoparticles for image-guided therapy. She is also currently working on radiopaque absorbable medical devices for various interventional and vascular applications.
|
PDF
