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

Dianna Hightower

Senior Coordinator, Executive Support
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center

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 A Bowling, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center

Joe Zoeller

Graduate Student
Medical Scientist Training Program (MD/PhD)
Quantitative & Computational Biosciences

Angela Addison

Graduate Student
Development, Disease Models, and Therapeutics

Justin Van Riper

Graduate Student
Chemical, Physical, and Structural Biology

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

Ruiying ma

Research Technician III
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Therapeutic Innovation Center

Abby Mckellop

Undergraduate Researcher
Department of Biosciences
Rice University

Former Lab Members

Nivetha Ramesh Babu
Graduate Student
BCM CPSB Graduate Program

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