Principal Investigator

Dr. Cassandra Callmann is an Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Following the completion of her B.S. in Biochemistry (2012) at West Chester University, she earned both her M.S. (2014) and Ph.D. (2018) in Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Her graduate work was supported by fellowships from the Inamori Foundation, the ARCS Foundation, and the Cancer Researchers in Nanotechnology program (NIH R25T). She was recognized for her thesis research with an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the UC San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2018. Following her Ph.D., Cassandra was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University.  For her work as an early career researcher, she was selected as a 2019 CAS Future Leader by the Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society.