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Meet the Team

Core Director

Kevin Dean, Ph.D.

Core Director. Provides high-level scientific and strategic leadership, sets the technology and service-development roadmap, oversees institutional partnerships, and guides complex project strategy.

Team Members

Hazel Borges

Core Operations Manager and Tissue/Imaging Coordinator. Hazel handles all new project intake and coordinates day-to-day operations. She evaluates and routes requests, coordinates samples, timelines, staff, and resources, delegates work, communicates with users, and oversees tissue processing, clearing, labeling, expansion, panel optimization, and quality control.

Zhiguo Shang

Imaging Data Scientist. Supports large-scale analysis, segmentation, visualization, quantification, reproducible pipelines, and project consultation.

Xiaoding "Annie" Wang

Lead Software Engineer. Develops microscope control, acquisition, automation and robotics, data transfer, and imaging-to-analysis integration.

Tai Ngo

Imaging Systems and Operations. Tai supports microscope assembly, alignment, testing, staff-operated acquisition, routine operation, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, quality-control measurements, and standardization of acquisition protocols.

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Supported by CPRIT. CCIC is supported in part by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas through Core Facility Support Award RP250571.