For details on research, personnel, and recent publications, visit the below links for each faculty member.

Core Faculty

Weiyi Peng
Interim Director, Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling
Associate Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Dinler Amaral Antunes
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Tasneem Bawa-Khalfe
Associate Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Sanghyuk Chung
Associate Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Qin Feng
Associate Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Founding Director, Center for Nuclear Receptors & Cell Signaling
Robert A. Welch Professor
Professor of Biology & Biochemistry and Chemistry

Chin-Yo Lin
Associate Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Quentin Vicens
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Margaret Warner
Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Ping Yi
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Shaun Xiaoliu Zhang
M.D. Anderson Professor and Chair, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Affiliated Faculty

Jason Eriksen
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences

Daniel Frigo
Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Nuclear Receptors & Cell Signaling, Department of Biology & Biochemistry

Fatima Merchant
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering Technology and Computational Health Formatics
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Cullen College of Engineering
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Houston

Chandra Mohan
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Richard Willson
Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering