Meet the Principal Investigator
Carlos L. Arteaga, M.D.
The Lisa K. Simmons Distinguished Chair in Comprehensive Oncology
Director, UT Southwestern Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Professor of Medicine
Associate Dean of Oncology Programs, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dr. Carlos L. Arteaga is the Director of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center and Associate Dean of Oncology Programs at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Dr. Arteaga earned his medical degree at the University of Guayaquil in Ecuador. He trained in internal medicine and medical oncology at Emory University and the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio. He joined Vanderbilt University Medical Center in 1989, where he held the Donna S. Hall Chair in Breast Cancer Research and served at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC) as Director of the Center for Cancer Targeted Therapies, the Director of the Breast Cancer Program, and the Associate Director for Translational/Clinical Research until 2017 when he joined UT Southwestern.
Dr. Arteaga has more than 300 publications in the areas of oncogenes and breast tumor initiation and progression, the development of targeted therapies and biomarkers of drug action and resistance, and investigator-initiated clinical trials in breast cancer. His research is or has been funded by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT), the American Cancer Society, the Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program, Stand Up 2 Cancer (SU2C), and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and Breast Cancer Research foundations.
During his career, Dr. Arteaga has received several awards, including the American Association for Cancer Research-Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Award, the American Cancer Society Clinical Research Professor Award, the Gianni Bonadonna Award from the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Brinker Award for Scientific Distinction from the Susan G. Komen Foundation, the 2015 Prize for Scientific Excellence in Medicine from the American-Italian Cancer Foundation, and the Clinical Investigator Award from the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy, an elected member of both the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians and a member of the Susan G. Komen Scientific Advisory Board. He also serves on the advisory boards of several academic breast cancer programs and NCI-designated cancer centers.
Current Lab Members
Ariella Hanker, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Saurabh Mendiratta, M.S.
Lab Manager
Kyung-min Lee, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dhivya Sudhan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sumanta Chatterjee, Ph.D.
Assistant Instructor
Alberto Servetto, M.D.
Junior Visiting Researcher
Dan Ye, M.D.
Senior Research Associate
Hiroaki Akamatsu, M.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
Albert Lin, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher
Lab Alumni
|
Name |
Position in Arteaga Lab |
Current position |
|---|---|---|
| Mingfang Ao, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Postdoctoral fellow, Vanderbilt University |
| Sangeeta Bafna, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Manager, New Jersey Institute of Technology |
| Andrei Bakin, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Associate professor, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center |
| Justin Balko, Pharm.D., Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Assistant professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Neil Bhola, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Assistant professor, University of California, San Francisco |
| Roberto Bianco, M.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Associate professor, University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| Swati Biswas, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Medical writer, WAVE life sciences |
| Monica Red Brewer, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | |
| Anindita Chakrabarty, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Assistant professor, Shiv Nadar University, India |
| Siprachanh Chanthaphaychith, J.D. | Research assistant | Privacy and cyber intelligence professional |
| Kristen Keon Ciombor, M.D. | Fellow | Assistant professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Rebecca Cook, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Associate professor, Vanderbilt University |
| Tracy Criswell, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Assistant professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine |
| Sarah Croessmann, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Research assistant professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Teresa Dugger | Lab manager | Lab manager, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Nancy Dumont, Ph.D. | PhD student | Senior research scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard |
| Ghenekaro Esin | Summer student | Medical student, Meharry Medical College |
| Monica Valeria Estrada, M.D. | Pathology fellow | Assistant director, tissue technology shared resources, University of California, San Diego |
| Luigi Formisano, M.D., Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Assistant professor, University of Naples Federico II, Italy |
| William Fry, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Antibody development manager, Antibodies Inc. |
| Joan Garrett, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Assistant professor, University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy |
| Ritwik Ghosh, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Chief technologist, Lynntech Inc. |
| Jennifer Giltnane, M.D., Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Pathologist, Genentech Inc. |
| Paula Gonzalez-Ericsson, M.D. | Pathology fellow | Pathology fellow, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Angel Guerrero-Zotano, M.D. | Fellow | Oncologist, Hospital Quironsalud, Valencia, Spain |
| Marta Guix, M.D. | Fellow | Oncologist, Hospital del Mar, Barcelona, Spain |
| Katherine Hutchinson, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Scientist, Genentech Inc. |
| Valerie Malyvanh Jansen, M.D., Ph.D. | Fellow | Eli Lilly |
| Justin King | Summer student | Medical student, Meharry Medical College |
| James Koch | Research assistant | Research assistant, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| Yasuhiro Koh, M.D. | Fellow | Associate professor, Wakayama Medical University, Japan |
| Maria Gabriela Kuba, M.D. | Pathology fellow | Pathology fellow, Brigham and Women's Hospital |
| Anne Lenferink, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Research officer, Nationl Research Council Canada |
| Yao Lu, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Clinical genomics scientist, Invitae |
| Todd Miller, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Associate professor, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine |
| Preston Moore | Research assistant | Senior clinical data analyst, Sarah Cannon Research Institute |
| Stacy Moulder, M.D. | Fellow | Associate professor, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center |
| Archana Narasanna | Research assistant | Research coordinator, University of Florida |
| James Pauff, M.D., Ph.D. | Fellow | Associate medical director, AbbVie |
| Marianela Perez-Torres, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Branch chief, Food and Drug Administration |
| Paula Pohlmann, M.D. | Fellow | Assistant professor, Georgetown University |
| Brent Rexer, M.D., Ph.D. | Fellow | Assistant professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
| David Riddle | Research assistant | Epic analyst, Ardent Health Services |
| Christoph Ritter, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Professor, University of Greifswald, Germany |
| Luis Jesus Schwarz, M.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Oncologist, Oncosalud AUNA, Peru |
| Incheol Shin, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Professor, Hanyang University, South Korea |
| Cammie Rinehart Sutton | Research assistant | |
| Shizhen Emily Wang, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Associate professor, University of California, San Diego |
| Emily Fox Wearne, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Pharmacologist, Food and Drug Administration |
| Seungchan Yang, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Scientist, RES Group Inc. |
| Christian Young, Ph.D. | Postdoctoral fellow | Instructor, University of Colorado at Denver-Anschutz Medical Campus |