Associate Professor, Lester & Sue Smith Breast Center
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Bio
Dr. Chonghui Cheng
Baylor College of Medicine
Newly funded researchers pursuing high-risk, high-reward breast cancer studies in their first or second academic positions.

Past
Early Investigator
Abde Abukhdeir, PhD
The molecular variants that lead or contribute to drug resistance in breast cancer

Past
Early Investigator
Nan Chen, MD
Discovering novel biomarkers of therapy response and resistance in metastatic triple-negative breast cancer patients

Past
Early Investigator
Peiwen Chen, PhD
Targeting macrophage reprogramming in brain metastatic breast cancer
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