Member Highlight: Dr. Daniel Kraushaar
GC-CPEH PIPELINE Resource Navigator – Genomic and RNA Profiling Core
Dr. Daniel Kraushaar, assistant professor of molecular and cellular biology and of education, innovation and technology at Baylor College of Medicine, and GC-CPEH PIPELINE Resource Navigator, is advancing cancer research through innovation in epigenomics. As director of the Genomic and RNA Profiling Core, Dr. Kraushaar was recently awarded a Core Facility Support Award of $1.99 million from the Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to establish the Comprehensive Cancer Epigenomics Core Facility.
This new core will expand access to cutting-edge epigenomic tools, enabling researchers to investigate how changes in gene regulation contribute to cancer development and treatment resistance. His award is part of CPRIT’s $93 million statewide investment in cancer research, which includes five major grants to Baylor College of Medicine.
Through his leadership, Dr. Kraushaar is helping to build the infrastructure that fuels precision environmental health science—ensuring that GC-CPEH investigators have access to state-of-the-art genomic technologies and expertise.