New Mays Cancer Center Members
Mays Cancer Center Annual Report
The Mays Cancer Center is an Organized Research Unit of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. As a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, Mays Cancer Center has a formal membership policy in support of the center’s mission to promote interdisciplinary research in cancer-related areas of basic science, clinical research and cancer prevention and control, and to foster the application of the results of that research in the community setting, especially in the South Texas community served by the center. Mays Cancer Center members include those who serve as a principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health research project grant or other equivalent peer-reviewed, cancer-related grant or who are a principal or co-investigator of cancer center clinical trials.
Mays Cancer Center welcomes the following new members from Fiscal Year 2023.
Colin Court, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery Division of Surgical Oncology and Endocrine Surgery
Research interests: gastrointestinal cancers, cancer genetics
Shraddha Dalwadi, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Research interests: new therapeutic modalities for breast cancer
Jennifer Huberty, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Hematology and Oncology
Research interests: meditation and yoga as interventions for cancer patients and caregivers
Hyoung-gon Lee, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Biology The University of Texas at San Antonio
Research interests: peripheral neuropathy
Jihoon Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine
Research interests: roles of epigenetic and epitranscriptomic alterations in cancer development
Justin Leung, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology
Research interests: DNA repair mechanisms
Angelina Vaseva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Medicine
Research interests: novel therapeutic targets in pediatric sarcomas
Suryavathi Viswanadhapalli, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Research interests: new therapeutic targets in women’s cancers
Lu Wang, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Structural Biology
Research interests: age-associated epigenetic alterations in the development of cancer
