Westbrook Lab
Our interdisciplinary team is made up of talented scientists from around the world
with diverse scientific backgrounds.
We are always looking to add passionate scientists with diverse strengths in genetics, cell biology, bioinformatics, or chemical biology to our team.
Thomas “Trey” Westbrook, Ph.D.
McNair Scholar in Cancer Research
Professor & Welch Chair in Chemistry
Executive Director, Therapeutic Innovation Center (THINC@BCM)
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Molecular and Human Genetics
Earlene M Schmitt
Assistant Laboratory Director
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Jitendra Kumar Meena, Ph.D.
Instructor
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Nicholas J Neill, PH.D.
Staff Scientist
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Elizabeth Bowling, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Liting Zheng, PH.D.
Postdoctoral Associate
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Andrew Yang
Graduate Student
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Genetics and Genomics
Joe Zoeller
Graduate Student
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Quantitative & Computational Biosciences
Angela Addison
Graduate Student
Development, Disease Models, and Therapeutics
Nivetha Ramesh Babu, MSC
Research Assistant II
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Marcus Weber, MSC
Research Assistant II
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Cheyenne Calderon
Research Technician III
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Desmon Reed
Research Technician II
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center
Former Lab Members
William Wu, PhD
Medical Student
BCM MSTP
Brinley Harrington
Graduate Student
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Heyuan Li, PhD
Senior Bioinformatic Scientist
Merck
Siddhartha Tyagi, MSc
Senior Scientist in Immuno-Oncology
AstraZeneca
Fade Gong, PhD
Director
Avance Biosciences
Mayra C Orellana
Medical Technologist-AAB
Urology, Baylor College of Medicine
Kristen L Karlin, PhD
Director of Target Discovery
Assistant Professor, Biochemistry
Therapeutic Innovation Center (THINC@BCM)
Tingting Sun, PhD
Principal Scientist
Bristol Myers Squibb
Sarah J Kurley, PhD
Director, R&D Evidence Development
Castle Biosciences
Gino Martin Canlas, PhD
Instructor of Chemistry
Lamar University
Justin Fang, MD
Urologist
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Jessica (Kessler) Hartman, PhD
Director of Product Applications
Cell Microsystems
Brian Ho, PhD
Medical Student
BCM MSTP
Hsiang-Ching “Sunny” Chung, PhD
Scientist
Xaira Therapeutics
Jarey Wang, MD PhD
Resident Physician
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Yuchen “Kelly” Feng, PhD
Life Sciences Consultant
Putnam
Ronald Bernadi, MD, PhD
Lead Medical Director
Genentech
Kathleen Scorsone, PhD
Former Senior Staff Scientist
Pediatrics-Oncology, Texas Children’s
Amritha Nair, PhD
Faculty of Medicine, Industry Partnerships and Commercialization Team
Imperial College London
Tiffany Hsu, MD, PhD
Rheumatology Fellow
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Rocio Dominguez-Vidana, PhD
Data Science Manager
Climate LLC
Christopher S Bland, PhD
Senior Medical Director, US Oncology Medical Affairs
Pfizer
Xuemin Lu, PhD
Undergraduate Research Director, Assistant Teaching Professor
University of Notre Dame