Life At The Institute: Milan Savani
May 17, 2022Milan Savani is an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UT Southwestern. In the McBrayer lab at CRI, he studies how brain cancer cells use nutrients...
Life at CRI
Quick Facts Since Our Founding
Founded
in
2011
Primary Faculty
11
HHMI Investigators
2
Extramural Funding
$189M
Senior Author Publications
123
NIH R01
Grants
23
CRI Statistics
Publications in High-Impact Journals*
*With an impact factor of 20 or above.
Recent Publications
Morrison Lab: Ascorbate regulates haematopoietic stem cell function and leukaemogenesis. Nature
DeBerardinis Lab: Lactate Metabolism in Human Lung Tumors. Cell
Zhu Lab: Somatic Mutations Increase Hepatic Clonal Fitness and Regeneration in Chronic Liver Disease. Cell
Xu Lab: In situ capture of chromatin interactions by biotinylated dCas9. Cell
Mishra Lab: α-ketobutyrate links alterations in cystine metabolism to glucose oxidation in mtDNA mutant cells. Metab Eng
Extramural Funding
CRI Postdoctoral Fellowship Sponsors
AACR
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association
Burrows Wellcome Fund
Canadian Institutes of Health Research
CPRIT
Damon Runyon Foundation
Dermatology Foundation
European Molecular Biology Organization
German National Academy of Sciences
Gruss Lipper Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
Human Frontier Science Program
Kidney Cancer Association
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
National Science Foundation
NIH
Life at the Institute
Life At The Institute: Yafeng Li, Ph.D.
May 10, 2022Yafeng Li, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Agathocleous lab at CRI. As a trained analytical chemist specialized in mass spectrometry, she studies how metabolites, the small molecules of...
Life At The Institute: Chelsee Greer, D.O.
April 21, 2022Chelsee Greer, D.O., is a pediatric hematology/oncology fellow at UT Southwestern where she splits her time between seeing patients and working in the Xu lab at CRI. Her work in...
Life At The Institute: Alex Sternisha
January 19, 2022Alex Sternisha is an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UT Southwestern. In the McBrayer lab, he studies how small molecules that are produced and consumed...
Life At The Institute: Spencer Shelton
August 2, 2021Spencer Shelton is a fourth-year graduate student in the Mishra lab and a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He is studying the role of mitochondrial DNA variations in metastatic...
Life At The Institute: Stefano Comazzetto, Ph.D.
June 23, 2021Stefano Comazzetto, Ph.D., is a European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) fellow and a postdoctoral researcher in the Morrison lab. At CRI, he is studying blood-forming stem cells and how metabolites...
Life At The Institute: Andrew Chung
June 9, 2021Andrew Chung is an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UT Southwestern. In the Zhu lab, Andrew is studying the influence of liver metabolic zonation on...
Life at the Institute: Aparna Rao, MBBS, Ph.D.
May 10, 2021Aparna Rao, MBBS, Ph.D., worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the DeBerardinis lab for three years studying melanoma metabolism. She recently returned to Australia to finish her training as a...
Life at the Institute: Zixi Wang, Ph.D.
March 18, 2021Zixi Wang, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in the Zhu lab and an assistant instructor of pediatrics at UT Southwestern. He is studying how mutations in SWI/SNF chromatin remodeling complexes...
Life at the Institute: Le Qi
December 8, 2020Le Qi is a graduate student in the Morrison lab and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Predoctoral Student Research Fellow. At CRI, he is studying the metabolism of blood-forming...
Life at the Institute: Faith Zhang, M.D., Ph.D.
November 4, 2020Faith Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., is a radiation oncology clinical fellow in the DeBerardinis lab. At CRI, she works to uncover metabolic targets to improve the effectiveness of radiotherapy. Resistance to...
Life at the Institute: Giovanni Botten
September 29, 2020Giovanni Botten is a M.D./Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at UT Southwestern. As part of the Xu lab at CRI he is studying how large-scale changes in...
Life at the Institute: Nicholas Lesner
August 24, 2020Nicholas Lesner is a third-year graduate student in the Mishra lab and a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Service Award Individual Predoctoral Fellowship awardee. At CRI, he is studying how mutations...
Life at the Institute: Xun Wang, Ph.D.
July 28, 2020Xun Wang, Ph.D. is a postdoctoral researcher in the Mishra lab who is studying how changes in mitochondria influences muscle stem cells maintenance and repair. His work will help us...
Life at the Institute: Austin Moore
July 14, 2020Austin Moore is an M.D./Ph.D. student in the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at UT Southwestern and previously held a Medical Research Fellowship from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)....
Life at the Institute: Zhimin Gu, Ph.D.
June 30, 2020Zhimin Gu is a postdoctoral fellow in the Xu lab and a member of the Moody Medical Research Institute. At CRI, he is working to discover metabolic vulnerabilities in acute...
Life at the Institute: Cemre Celen
June 8, 2020Cemre Celen is a sixth year graduate student in the Zhu lab. At CRI, she studies the regeneration of β-cells which are the insulin producing cells in the pancreas lost...
Life at the Institute: Jennifer Gill, M.D., Ph.D.
May 21, 2020Jennifer Gill, M.D., Ph.D., is a scientist at CRI and a practicing dermatologist. As a researcher in the Morrison lab, she studies how melanoma spreads from the skin to other...
Life at the Institute: Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D.
May 5, 2020Ashley Solmonson, Ph.D., is a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Fellow in the DeBerardinis lab. At CRI, she studies how metabolism supports fetal growth during pregnancy and...
Life at the Institute: Elise Jeffrey, Ph.D.
April 22, 2020Elise Jeffrey, Ph.D., is a Damon Runyon Foundation Fellow in the Morrison lab. At CRI, Elise is studying blood stem cells and their environment to find new therapies for patients...
Life At The Institute: Divya Bezwada
March 10, 2020Graduate student Divya Bezwada is a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellow at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute (CRI). In the DeBerardinis lab she works as part of an interdisciplinary...
Life At The Institute: Brandon Faubert, Ph.D.
February 25, 2020Brandon Faubert, Ph.D., is a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Fellow at Children’s Medical Center Research Institute (CRI) at UT Southwestern. He works in the DeBerardinis lab studying tumor metabolism....
Life At The Institute: Sojeong Jun
February 13, 2020Sojeong Jun is a graduate student at CRI. She is part of the Agathocleous lab where she is working to discover new treatment options for patients with leukemia. What are...
Life at the Institute: McKenzie Patrick
January 21, 2020McKenzie Patrick is a graduate student at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute (CRI). She is a part of Dr. Jian Xu’s lab where she is working to better understand...
Life At The Institute: Wen Gu, Ph.D.
January 7, 2020Wen Gu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute (CRI). He works in the lab of Dr. Ralph DeBerardinis as part of the Genetic and Metabolic...
