The Methodist Hospital System
The Methodist Hospital System. Leading Medicine

Investigators

Investigators

The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
Mauro Ferrari, PhD - Principal Investigator
President and CEO
Ernest Cockrell Jr. Distinguished Endowed Chair
The Methodist Hospital Research Institute 
President
The Alliance for NanoHealth

mferrari@tmhs.org

 Center Admin, Project 1
Paolo Decuzzi, PhD - Core 1 Leader
Scientist, Senior Member, Co-Director

pdecuzzi@tmhs.org

 Core 1
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Steven Curley, MD - Senior Co-Investigator, Project 1 Leader
Professor of Surgical Oncology
scurley@mdanderson.org

Center Admin, Project 2
Isaiah Fidler, PhD- Project 1 Leader
Professor of Surgical Oncology and Cancer Biology

ifidler@mdanderson.org

Project 1
Renata Pasqualini , PhD- Project 1 Leader
Buchanan and Seeger Professor of Medicine and Cancer Biology

rpasqual@mdanderson.org

Project 1
The University of Texas at Austin
Nicholas Peppas, Sc.D - Project 3 Leader
Fletcher Stuckey Pratt Chair in Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering

peppas@che.utexas.edu

Project 3
Rice University
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, PhD - Core 2 Leader
Stanley C. Moore Professor of Bioengineering

rkortum@rice.edu

Core 2
Lon Wilson, PhD - Project 2 Leader
Professor of Chemistry

durango@rice.edu

Project 2
Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital
Seok H. (Andy) Yun, PhD - Core 2 Leader
Assistant Professor, Wellman Center for Photomedicine

syun@hms.harvard.edu

Core 2
The University of New Mexico
Vittorio Cristini, PhD - Core 1 Leader
Professor, SOM Pathology
vcristini@salud.unm.edu

Core 1