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Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio

The Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio was originally established in 1974 as the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC), an outpatient radiation therapy clinic for the local community. In 1991, CTRC launched its Institute for Drug Development to find new treatments for patients with cancer through the integration of research programs of excellence in translational and clinical sciences. Soon after, the center expanded and joined forces with the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (now known as UT Health San Antonio), to form an NCI-Designated Cancer Center.

In 2007, the CTRC became a part of UT Health San Antonio, forming the Mays Cancer Center. The Mays Cancer Center includes a multidisciplinary faculty of more than 100 members of the UT Health San Antonio faculty representing more than 10 academic departments and 3 schools.

 

University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Clinical
Lei Zheng, MD, PhD
Executive Director
7979 Wurzbach Road, Mail Code 8026
Urschel Tower, Room U627
San Antonio, TX 78229
(210)450-1406

Senior Leaders

Senior Leader Title
Amelie Ramirez, DPH, MPH Associate Director for Community Outreach & Engagement
Daruka Mahadevan, MD, PhD Associate Director for Clinical Research
David Gius, MD,PhD Associate Director for Translational Researcher
Lei Zheng, MD, PhD Executive Director and Principal Investigator
LuZhe Sun, PhD Associate Director for Basic Research
Michael Halpern, MD, PhD, MPH Associate Director for Population Science
Robin Leach, PhD Associate Director for Education
Susan Padalecki, PhD Associate Director for Research Administration
Tim Huang, PhD Deputy Director

Research Programs

Research Program Program Leaders
Cancer Development and Progression Patrick Sung, DPhil; Ratna Vadlamudi, PhD
Experimental and Developmental Therapeutics Andrew Brenner, MD, PhD; Manjeet Rao, PhD
Population Science and Prevention Gail Tomlinson, MD, PhD; Addanki Kumar, PhD

Shared Resources

Category Resource Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Drug Discovery and Structural Biology Shaun Olsen, PhD; Daohong Zhou, MD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Flow Cytometry Michael Berton, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Mass Spectrometry Susan Weintraub, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Next Generation Sequencing Zhao Lai, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science Optical Imaging James Lechleiter, PhD; Exing Wang, PhD
Cat 6: Biostatistics Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Yidong Chen, PhD; Jonathan Gelfond, MD, PhD
Last Updated
September 24, 2024