Neal G. Copeland PhD

Dr. Neal G. Copeland returned to the United States in September 2011 and became Director of the Cancer Biology Program, along with his wife and long-term collaborator, Nancy Jenkins, at the newly formed Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) in Houston, Texas. For more than 30 years, they have modeled human diseases affecting many organ systems including disorders of the immune, visual, auditory, skeletal, nervous, pigmentation, and hematopoietic systems, in mouse. They have also had a long-standing interest in modeling human cancer in mice and for the past six years have focused exclusively on providing a better understanding of the genetics of cancer with the hope that new drug targets useful in the targeted treatment of human cancer can be identified.