Yuan Pan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Symptom Research, Division of Internal Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Pan received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Iowa and her thesis work focused on understanding ion channel trafficking in photoreceptors. As a postdoctoral fellow, her research focused on microenvironmental regulation of optic pathway gliomas.

In 2022, Dr. Pan established an independent research program at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Pan’s research program lies at the intersection of neuroscience and cancer biology. Leveraging genetically engineered mouse models and neuromodulatory approaches, the Pan Laboratory is currently working on understanding neuron-glia and neuron-cancer interactions, with a focus on cancer predisposition syndromes such as neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1).