Principal Investigator

Deepak Nijhawan M.D., Ph.D.
Originally from Chicago, Dr. Nijhawan completed his doctoral and medical degrees in UTSW's Medical Scientist Training Program. He then completed a residency in Internal Medicine and clinical fellowship in Medical Oncology before returning to UT Southwestern.
During his fellowship, he used functional cancer genomics to identify novel targets in cancer, developing a novel strategy to target “passenger” genes as an Achilles heel in ovarian cancer.
At UTSW, he is interested in expanding the list of vulnerabilities and translating these findings into the clinic to improve the treatment of ovarian and lung cancer.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Nijhawan enjoys cycling, hiking, travel, and sports.
Current Lab Members
Maria Goralski
Research Assistant

Giomar Rivera-Cancel, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Neha Barrows
Research Technician

Min Fang, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Vishal Khivansara, M.S.
Sr. Research Associate

Shanhai Xie, Ph.D.
Research Scientist

Current Students
Thu (Tiana) Nguyen
Graduate Student

Christopher Cervantes
Graduate Student

Former Lab Members
Elisa Lin
MSTP Student
2018 - 2021

Baiyun Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
2018 - 2020

Emanuela Capota
Research Assistant
2014 - 2020

David Hsieh, M.D.
Hematology/Oncology Fellow
2018 - 2020

Anthony Yuan
Research Technician
2017 - 2019

Ting "Master Ting" Han, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Researcher
2013 - 2017

Katherine Klein
Research Technician
2016 - 2018

Amy Owen
Research Technician

Nicholas Gaskill
Research Technician

Johnny McKnight
Research Technician

Yingli Duan
Rachael Cox
Former PhD Students
Albert Budhipramono
MSTP Student
2018 - 2021

Tabitha Ting
MSTP Student
2016 - 2020

Nikhil Madhusudhan
MSTP Student
2015 - 2019

Pano Theodoropoulos, M.D., Ph.D.
MSTP Student
2014-2016

James Ye
Rotating MSTP Student
Summer 2019
Kartik Kulkarni
Rotating MSTP Student
Summer 2019
Moiz Munir
Rotating MSTP Student
Summer 2019
Daniel Shu
Rotating MSTP Student
Summer 2019
José Francisco Calva Moreno
Rotating MSTP Student
Summer 2018
Aakash Gndhi
Rotating MSTP Student
Summer 2017
Minzhe Zhang
Rotating MSTP Student
Owais Ulhaq
Rotating MSTP Student
Nathan Heineman
Rotating MSTP Student
Megan Vernino
Rotating MSTP Student
Sanjana Ravi
Rotating MSTP Student