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

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

Rong Zheng

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

Justin Van Riper

Graduate Student
Chemical, Physical, and Structural Biology

Angela Addison

Graduate Student
Development, Disease Models, and Therapeutics

Joseph Ma

Graduate Student
Cancer and Cell Biology

Nivetha ramesh babu

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

Abby Mckellop

Undergraduate Researcher
Department of Biosciences
Rice University

Former Lab Members

Ruiying Ma
Graduate Student
BCM CCB Graduate Program

Brinley Harrington
Graduate Student
The University of Texas Medical Branch

Heyuan Li, PhD
Senior Scientist - Computational Biology
Merck

Siddhartha Tyagi, MSc
Principal Scientist 1 Study Director
Charles River Laboratories

Fade Gong, PhD
Director
Avance Biosciences

Mayra C Orellana
Clinical Operations Specialist
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 Evidence Strategy
Optum Evidence Engine

Gino Martin Canlas, PhD
Lead Chemist
SI Group

Justin Fang, MD
Urologist
Johns Hopkins Medicine

Jessica (Kessler) Hartman, PhD
Senior Director of Product Applications
Cell Microsystems

William Wu, MD PhD
Resident Physician
University of Washington

Brian Ho, MD PhD
Computational Biology Consultant
Overland Pharmaceuticals

Hsiang-Ching “Sunny” Chung, PhD
Scientist II
Xaira Therapeutics

Jarey Wang, MD PhD
Resident Physician
Johns Hopkins Hospital

Yuchen “Kelly” Feng, PhD
Assistant Director, Global Market Insights and Forecasting
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Ronald Bernadi, MD, PhD
Senior Medical Director
Exelixis

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
Instructor
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Rocio Dominguez-Vidana, PhD
Lead Machine Learning Researcher
Bayer

Christopher S Bland, PhD
National Field Medical Head
Deciphera Pharmaceuticals

Xuemin Lu, PhD
Undergraduate Research Director, Associate Professor of Practice
University of Notre Dame