Principal Investigator
Dr. Pora Kim
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics
McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Collaborator
Dr. Xiaobo Zhou, Director, Center for Computational Systems Medicine, MSBMI, UTHealth at Houston
Research Scientist
Research Assistant
Victoria M Gorshkov, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
Alumni Graduate Student
2021-2023 Chengyuan Yang (Helen)
Ph.D. Student, School of Public Health, UTHealth at Houston
She developed FusionNW and was involved in many projects.
Alumni Research Assistant
2021 Danlei Zhou, Intern, Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
She integrated all human diseases and clinical information.
2021 Haosheng Thomas Yang, MS course in Biomedical Data Science, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
He attempted to model an ORF inference from transcriptomic data.
Alumni Research Assistant (Lab practicum or Direct Study)
2025 Kyra Courtney, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She explored the sequence features of the fusion neoantigens and microbiome peptides.
2025 Argentina Lara, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She studied the partially deleted proteins in 3D structures.
: 2025 Truc Nguyen, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She explored the usefulness of the new PCA approach in reducing the dimension of expression in human brain tissue.
2025 Ayesha Siddiqui, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She explored the needs of the new antigen-antibody resource.
2025 Angelique Kyle, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She explored the structural difference of EML4-ALK fusion protein isoforms.
2025, Yu Zeng, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She studied the identification of synergistic drugs targeting EML4::ALK fusion in NSCLC.
2025, Qingwen Yang, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She ran the pipeline for the new transcriptomic profiling.
2025, Nora Balleza, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She searched for the non-cancer fusion genes from previous studies.
2024 Loren Trowbridge, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She was involved in predicting the 3D structures of fusion proteins.
2024 Leonardo Agular, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
He investigated the SNVs in the functional domain of fusion proteins.
2024 Khanh Nguyen, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She developed a new deep learning model to distinguish fusion neoantigen features.
2024 Abayomi Adegunlehin, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
He investigated PubMed for fusion genes and drugs.
2024 Heather J Canales, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She studied the impact of the number of cellular regulators
2023-2024 Hien Duong, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She studied the RNA-binding features in the fusion genes.
2023 Marielle Holmblad, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She studied the overall aspects of the pediatric cancer fusion gene-derived neoantigens.
2023 Yung Hsing Huang, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
He studied to identify drug repurposing candidates in the leukemia fusion gene.
2023 Yanqing Huang, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She studied to identify drug repurposing candidates for pediatric cancer fusion genes.
2023 Zakariya Ali, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
He studied the impact of the protein 3D structure information on the protein breakage tendency.
2023 Lori Wilson, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
2022 Lin-Ya Tang, MS in SBMI, UTHealth at Houston
She helped with the prediction of fusion protein 3D structures.
Alumni Undergraduate Student
2025 Jojo Kim, CPRIT Summer Intern, Northwestern University
He explored the mutations of the kinase protein's structure and function, and created personalized fusion protein sequences.
2025 Michelle Hernandez, CPRIT Summer Intern, The University of Texas at El Paso
She explored the split reads in both RNA-seq and WGS data.
2024 Ken Chen, CPRIT Summer Intern, Rice University
He contributed to the Kinase fusion gene and FusionPub databases and developed code for a comprehensive transcriptome profiling project.
2023 Maggie Zhang, CPRIT Summer Intern, The University of Texas at Austin
She studied the prediction of protein breakage tendency using the VAE model from fusion protein sequences.
2019 Talissa Chapin, CPRIT Summer Intern, The University of Texas at Dallas
She studied the identification of the downstream effectors in the fusion gene.