Principal Investigator
Cassandra Callmann, Ph.D.
Dr. Cassandra Callmann is an Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Following the completion of her B.S. in Biochemistry (2012) at West Chester University, she earned both her M.S. (2014) and Ph.D. (2018) in Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego. Her graduate work was supported by fellowships from the Inamori Foundation, the ARCS Foundation, and the Cancer Researchers in Nanotechnology program (NIH R25T). She was recognized for her thesis research with an Outstanding Dissertation Award from the UC San Diego Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry in 2018. Following her Ph.D., Cassandra was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University. For her work as an early career researcher, she was selected as a 2019 CAS Future Leader by the Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society.
Professional Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
CPRIT Scholar in Cancer Research
Full Member, LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes
The University of Texas at Austin
2021
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
Northwestern University
2018-2021
Education
Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry
University of California, San Diego
2018
M.S. in Organic Chemistry
University of California, San Diego
2014
B.S. in Biochemistry
West Chester University
2012
Awards and Honors
Grantee, Recruitment of First-Time, Tenure-Track Faculty, Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT)
2021
Outstanding Researcher Award, International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN)
2020
American Cancer Society (ACS) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2020-2021
Eden and Steven Romick Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019-2020
Chemical Abstracts Society (CAS) Future Leader Award
2019
International Institute for Nanotechnology (IIN) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2019-2021
UC San Diego Outstanding Dissertation Award
2018
Selected to participate in the Future Faculty Workshop: The Chemistry, Physics, Engineering and Biology of Soft Materials at Case Western Reserve University
2017
Achievement Rewards for Collegiate Scientists (ARCS) Graduate Scholarship
2016-2018
Inamori Foundation Graduate Fellowship
2015-2016
NIH R25T Cancer Researchers in Nanotechnology Graduate Training Fellowship
2014-2016
B.S. awarded summa cum laude, West Chester University
2012
American Chemical Society (ACS) Award for Top Undergraduate Biochemistry Major at West Chester University
2012