Rita Serda MS, PhD

Dr. Rita E. Serda, MS, PhD, received an MS degree in Chemistry (1991) and a PhD degree in Biomedical Sciences (2006) from New Mexico State University and the University of New Mexico. Following her doctorate research, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Texas at Houston (UT Houston).

She became an Assistant Professor at UT Houston in 2010 in the Department of Nanomedicine. When the department moved to Houston Methodist, she became co-Chair of the Department of Nanomedicine, the Inaugural Director of the Methodist Academy, and the Director of the Scanning Electron Microscopy Core.

In 2013, she became a tenure-track Associate Professor in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX at Baylor College of Medicine, and in 2016 she returned to New Mexico and became a Research Assistant Professor at the University of New Mexico.

Her research interests are Nanotechnology, Nanomedicine, Cancer Therapeutics, Immune Therapy, Materials Science, Molecular Biology, and Biochemistry.