UT health science center San Antonio
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Dr. Sandeep Burma holds the Mays Family Foundation Distinguished Chair in Oncology, is Professor of Neurosurgery and of Biochemistry & Structural Biology, and the Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Neurosurgery at UT Health San Antonio. Before moving to San Antonio, he spent fourteen years at the UT Southwestern Medical Center where he developed a strong research program in DNA repair and glioblastoma therapy resistance. Dr. Burma obtained his doctoral degree from the National Institute of Immunology in India. After postdoctoral research in the fields of transcription and DNA repair at Yale University, Pennsylvania State University, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, he worked as a Career Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He started his own research laboratory at UT Southwestern in 2005 and rose through the ranks there to become Professor of Radiation Oncology in 2019. Dr. Burma’s research has made many seminal contributions to our understanding of basic mechanisms of DNA repair and therapy resistance in glioblastoma. He is committed to translation of his research findings to improve cancer therapy, especially that of glioblastoma. Dr. Burma’s research has been continuously funded by the NIH and NASA. He serves on many grant review committees for the NIH, DOD, and NASA. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of Biological Chemistry, DNA Repair, and Annals of Translational Medicine. Dr. Burma is an accomplished mentor and teacher. At UT Southwestern, Dr. Burma helped develop Core and Cancer Biology courses in the Graduate School and taught in these courses. At UT Health San Antonio, Dr. Burma is deeply involved in the scientific and educational missions of the institution through his research and his mentorship of students. in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and students and residents in the Long School of Medicine.
