Joshua Gruber, MD, PhD

Dr. Gruber is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology and the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also appointed the the Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences.

He completed MD/PhD training at the University of Pennsylvania, followed by Internship & Residency in Internal Medicine at Stanford University. He then trained in Medical Oncology and was a postdoctoral fellow in the Stanford Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine. His postdoctoral work on systems biology of breast cancer was supported by the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund and Susan G. Komen. He is a board-certified medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer treatments. He came to UT Southwestern in July of 2021 to start The Gruber Lab and continue his physician-scientist career.

Lab Members

  • Alan (Yan) Zhao

    Postdoc. Graduate of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai

  • Harsh Goar

    Postdoctoral Fellow. PhD from CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology, Chandigarh, India

  • Shreenidhi Rajkumar

    Cancer biology graduate student

  • Steve

    Lab mascot. Attended doggy school. Did not graduate.

  • Lavanya Vumma

    UT Dallas Green Fellow and now a Research Technician

  • Tina Andoh

    Graduate student on VISTA project

  • Abbas Zaki

    Biomedical Engineering grad student

  • Bethania dos Santos

    Advanced Breast Cancer Research Fellow

  • Tron aka Baby bird

    birb bio student

  • Tarah Brown

    Admin extraordinaire

  • Ishrat Durdana

    Lab manger

  • Wendy Gonzalez

    American Cancer Society PROPEL fellow

Lab Alumni

  • Tarun Swaminathan

    Currently at TULANE MEDICAL SCHOOL

  • Priyanka Reddy

    Currently at UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL

  • Katherine Long

    Undergraduate at DUKE UNIVERSITY

  • Virginia Ezenwa

    Medical student at WINDSOR UNIVERSITY

  • Trent Rothell

    Baylor Undergrad. Algae aficionado.

  • Danielle Dixon

    Passion for drugging HAT1. Now pursuing her dreams in the PNW.

  • Krishna Kapoor

    Medical Student @ UTSW - off to Internal Med residency

  • Fatima Charles

    Currently working at Colossal Biotech.

  • Caiden Golder

    MD/PhD student at UT Southwestern

  • Van Vuong

    UT Dallas undergrad on her way to Med School.

  • Rumaisa Shoib

    UT Dallas Green Fellow applying to Med School

Previous trainees from the Stanford days & Snyder Lab

  • Sharon Feng

    Volunteered in the lab while she was a Berkeley undergraduate. Went on to Columbia medical school.

  • Ben Geller

    Oregon graduate. Was a research tech in the lab, then went on to UCSC graduate school. Expert in all things HAT1.

  • Amulya Vadlakonda

    Case Western undergraduate who worked summers in the lab. Went on to UCLA medical school.

  • Amith Rangarajan

    Joined the lab to train in computational chemistry. Now a research scientist at UCSF.

  • Akshay Sanghi

    Stanford MD/PhD student, did his thesis in the Snyder lab on multi-omics of thyroid cancer.

  • Tristan Chou

    UCI and GWU graduate, volunteered in the lab with focus on drug discovery.

  • Kristina Paul

    UCSD graduate. Research technician in the lab working on cancer immunology.