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Core Leadership Team
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Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.
Program Director
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Stanley C. Moore Professor, Director of Rice 360°: Technology Solutions for World Health, and Founder of Beyond Traditional Borders at Rice University
rkortum@rice.edu
This program is directed by Professor Rebecca Richards-Kortum, director of Rice 360°: Technology Solutions for World Health and founder of the Beyond Traditional Borders initiative. She has collaborated extensively with researchers at UT M.D. Anderson and many other leading institutions to develop new, non-invasive cancer detection technologies that use high-resolution, optical imaging; the use of fluorescent imaging agents for cancer detection; biophysical studies of the light-scattering properties of cells and tissues; and the use of fiber-optic sensors for in vivo detection of cancer.
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Ann Gillenwater, M.D.
Core Leadership Team Member
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Associate Professor and Associate Surgeon
Department of Head and Neck Surgery
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
agillenw@mdanderson.org
Dr. Ann Gillenwater is an Associate Professor of Head and Neck surgery at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. She has collaborated with Professor Richards-Kortum for the past 14 years on translational research and educational projects, including the IGERT and HHMI projects. Dr. Gillenwater formerly chaired the Graduate Medical Education Committee at M.D. Anderson. She also coordinates the seminar series.
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Walter Hittleman, Ph.D.
Core Leadership Team Member
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Sophie Caroline Steves Professor
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
whittelm@mdanderson.org
Walter Hittelman is a Professor of Experimental Therapeutics at M.D. Anderson. His research focuses on understanding mechanisms of human tumorigenesis at the cellular and molecular levels so that targeted strategies can be developed for the prevention and treatment of malignancy. He has collaborated with bioengineers at Rice to develop molecular imaging tools to monitor and detect carcinogenesis. Professor Hittleman assists in development of the core curriculum.
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Joel Moake, M.D.
Core Leadership Team Member
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Associate Director, J. W. Cox Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering
Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
jmoake@rice.edu
Dr. Joel Moake is jointly appointed as a professor of bioengineering at Rice University and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine. Dr. Moake has collaborated with Rice bioengineering faculty since the inception of the bioengineering graduate program and has been very involved in curriculum development efforts at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Dr. Moake also assists in coordinating the clinical internships.
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Jennifer West, Ph.D.
Core Leadership Team Member
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Isabel C. Cameron Professor of Bioengineering
Chair of the Department of Bioengineering
Rice University
jwest@rice.edu
Professor Jennifer West's translational research in biomaterials and tissue engineering focuses on the synthesis, development, and application of novel biofunctional materials and on the use of biomaterials and engineering approaches to study biological problems. She has been a pioneer in the use of nanotechnology for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics and she assists in the development of the BioE Med Into Grad core course curriculum. Professor West is deeply committed to excellence in education. Since 1998, she has worked to broaden the pipeline of well-educated and highly-skilled leaders in the field of biotechnology. In 2006, she was named an HHMI Professor for her research and training programs in bionanotechnology research.
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Emil Freireich, M.D., D.Sc.
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Professor
Department of Hematology
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Juri Gelovani, M.D., Ph.D.
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Professor
Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging
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John Hazle, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor
Department of Imaging Physics
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Professor and Chair, Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Director, Breast Cancer Basic Research Program
Ruth Legett Jones Distinguished Chair |
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Chun Li, Ph.D.
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Associate Professor
Department of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging
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Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D., Ph.D.
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Professor
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
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Timothy Madden, PharmD
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Professor
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
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Gordon Mills, Ph.D.
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Professor
Department of Molecular Therapeutics
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Renata Pasqualini, Ph.D.
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Professor
Department of Medicine and Cancer Biology
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Eva Singletary, M.D.
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Professor
Department of Surgical Oncology
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Konstantin Sokolov, Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor
Department of Imaging Physics
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