UT MD Anderson Cancer Center

UT MD Anderson is one of the world's most respected centers devoted exclusively to cancer patient care, research, education and prevention. Its sole mission is to end cancer for patients and their families around the world.

UT MD Anderson is located in central Houston in the Texas Medical Center and also provides cancer care at several locations throughout the Greater Houston Area and collaborates with hospitals, health systems and organizations across the U.S. and around the world to advance our mission to end cancer.

UT MD Anderson was created in 1941 as part of The University of Texas System, and, in 1971, it became one of the nation's original three comprehensive cancer centers designated by the National Cancer Act of 1971.

U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Hospitals” rankings has named UT MD Anderson the nation's top hospital for cancer care. The institution has been named one of the nation’s top two hospitals for cancer care every year since the survey began in 1990.

UT MD Anderson’s people are at the heart of its mission, with almost 27.000 employees, including over 2,000 faculty, working together to advance cancer care, research and education. The institution’s faculty includes nationally recognized leaders, including a Nobel Laureate and members of the National Academy of Medicine and National Academy of Sciences. In FY25, 5,905 trainees participated in educational programs across clinical, nursing and research disciplines, helping prepare the next generation of experts.

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Peter WT Pisters, MD, MHCM
President

1515 Holcombe Boulevard
Box 91
Houston, TX 77030

(713)745-4495

Research Programs

Research Program	Program Leaders
Breast Cancer	Wendy Woodward, MD, PhD; Debasish Tripathy, MD
Cancer Biology and Metastasis	Dihua Yu, PhD; Raghu Kalluri, MD, PhD
Cancer Genetics and Epigenetics	Xiaodong Cheng, PhD; Guillermina Lozano, PhD
Cancer Neuroscience	Vinay Puduvalli, MD; Juan Fueyo-Margareto, MD; Frederick Lang, Jr, MD
Cancer Prevention	Powel Brown, MD, PhD; Paul Cinciripini, PhD; Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD, MPH
Developmental Therapeutics	Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD; Rugang Zhang, PhD; Philip Jones, PhD
Gastrointestinal Cancers	Scott Kopetz, MD, PhD; Yi-Qian Nancy You, MD; Anirban Maitra, MBBS
Gynecological Cancers	Karen Lu, MD; Anil Sood, MD; Amir Jazaeri, MD
Head and Neck Cancer	Jeffrey Myers, MD; Maura Gillison, MD, PhD; Steven Sherman, MD
Hematological Malignancies	Robert Orlowski, MD, PhD; Michael Andreeff, MD, PhD
Imaging-Driven Biology and Therapy Program	Kristy Brock, PhD; Clifton Fuller, MD, PhD
Immunology	James Allison, PhD; Jeffrey Molldrem, MD
Lung Cancer	John Heymach, MD, PhD; Lauren Byers, MD; Steven Lin, MD, PhD
Prostate Cancer	Christopher Logothetis, MD; Timothy Thompson, PhD
Risk, Detection, and Outcomes	Paul Scheet, PhD; Sanjay Shete, PhD; Samir Hanash, MD, PhD; Sharon Giordano, MD, MPH
Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapy	Elizabeth Shpall, MD; Richard Champlin, MD; Katy Rezvani, MD, PhD

Shared Resources

Category	Resource	Directors
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Advanced Technology Genomics Core	Vicki Huff, PhD; Nicholas Navin, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Flow Cytometry and Cellular Imaging Facility	Michael Andreeff, MD, PhD; Jared Burks, PhD; Karen Dwyer, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Functional Genomics Core	Dihua Yu, MD, PhD; Yutong Sun , PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Functional Proteomics Reverse Phase Protein Array Core	Yiling Lu, MD; Rehan Akbani, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Genetically Engineered Mouse Facility	Fernando Benavides, DVM, PhD; Guillermina Lozano, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	High Resolution Electron Microscopy Facility	Shreya Kanodia, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Monoclonal Antibody Facility	Laura Bover, PhD
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Research Animal Support Facility	Jensen Vanessa, DVM
Cat 1: Laboratory Science	Small Animal Imaging Facility	John Hazle, PhD; James Bankson, PhD
Cat 3: Epidemiology, Cancer Control	Assessment, Intervention and Measurement Core	Susan Peterson, PhD; Karen Basen-Engquist, PhD
Cat 4: Clinical Research	Clinical and Translational Research Center	David Hong, MD; Daniel Karp, MD
Cat 4: Clinical Research	Tissue Biospecimen and Pathology Resource	Ignacio Wistuba, MD; Dipen Maru, MD; Gabriela Raso, MD
Cat 6: Biostatistics	Biostatistics Resource Group	J. Lee, PhD; Yu Shen, PhD
Cat 7: Informatics	Bioinformatics Shared Resource	John Weinstein, MD, PhD; Jing Wang, PhD

Last Updated

April 1, 2026