Cao Lab
Public health sciences
Our lab is advancing a deeper understanding of early-onset cancers—how they develop, how they can be prevented, and how they impact younger lives.
Cardiothoracic Surgery Research Laboratory
Cardiac surgery
Our lab is focused on developing surgical treatments for cardiothoracic conditions, including atrial fibrillation, and translating them in to clinical practice.
Chang Lab
Public health sciences
Research in our lab is focused on the health and economic burden of obesity and obesity-related multimorbidity, prevention of multiple myeloma, surgical treatment for obesity, transplant outcomes research, and health disparities.
Drake Lab
Public health sciences
Our lab is focused on research, community engagement and dissemination of evidence based materials.
Eghtesady Lab
Pediatric cardiothoracic surgery
Our lab seeks to eradicate congenital heart disease through better understanding of the mechanisms involved in its pathogenesis.
Endocrine Neoplasia Research Group
Surgical oncology
Our lab is dedicated to advancing our knowledge of endocrine tumor biology.
Housten Lab
Public health sciences
Our research focuses on supporting cancer screening and treatment decision-making to reduce health disparities and to address challenges associated with health literacy in diverse populations.
Hunleth Lab
Public health sciences
Our research investigates the social, political, and economic contexts that shape how people seek and respond to health care and medicine, across a range of diseases.
Institute for Minimally Invasive Surgery
Minimally invasive surgery
Our lab is focused on creating innovative surgical techniques and developing new technologies, comparing outcomes of open and laparoscopic procedures, and developing and testing biomaterials.
Intestinal Adaptation Lab
Pediatric surgery
Our lab seeks to understand the mechanisms through which the intestine adapts to massive intestinal loss.