Faculty
For details on research, personnel, and recent publications, visit the below links for each faculty member.
Core Faculty
Weiyi Peng
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
Bin Liu
Incoming Assistant Professor (9/1/2025), 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
Associate Professor of Pharmacology, Department of Pharmacological and Pharmaceutical Sciences
Associate Professor, Department of Cancer Systems Imaging, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Adjunct Associate Professor, Center for Nuclear Receptors & Cell Signaling, Department of Biology & Biochemistry
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, 色花堂
Hugh Roy and Lillie Cranz Cullen Endowed Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Huffington-Woestemeyer Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering