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Current Lab members:

Yong Li, Ph.D.
Taeyeop Park
​Fauzia Parween
Anibal Garza Carbajal
​Chrystine Gallegos
Alexis Bavencoffe*

*collaboration with Walters lab

Former Lab members:

Tanya Baldwin
​Samantha Berkey
​Elia Lopez*
​Autumn Marsden
Yan Wang
Wei Yu
Cameron Brand, Ph.D.
Riad Efendi, Ph.D.
Kathryn Hassell
Rachna Sadana, Ph.D.
Leslie Piggott, Ph.D.
Prasad Phatarpekar
Bao Nguyen, Ph.D., M.D.
Misty Chen-Goodspeed, Ph.D.
A. Nike Lukan
Samina Salim, Ph.D.
Luping Yang, Ph.D.
Kathy Graves
Jun Chen, M.D., M.S.
Eric Wang

*Plus many talented summer students,  rotation students, and foreign exchange students that we thank for their contributions over the years, including Faiza Baameur, Sharat Vayttaden, Caroline Bull Melsom and Kathrin Pieles.

News

2024

Carmen Dessauer, PhD, named Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston

2022

Carmen Dessauer, PhD, named Chair, ad interim, of the Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth Houston

2016

Dr. Dessauer is Program Director for a new NIH-funded graduate program, Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists (TIPS) T32GM120011