Yuan Pan

Abstract

Yuan Pan, PhD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Symptom Research at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research program lies in the intersection of neuroscience and nervous system cancer biology and focuses on the pathophysiology of cancer predisposition syndromes such as Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1).

Dr. Pan’s research group focuses on understanding the interaction between neurons and glia and how these interactions are dysregulated by genetic mutations. She was awarded the DoD NFRP Early Investigator Award, the ALSF Young Investigator Award, the CPRIT Recruitment of First-Time Tenure-Track Faculty Award, and the Gilbert Family Foundation Vision Restoration Initiative Award.