Tony Mustoe, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor and CPRIT Scholar at Baylor College of Medicine in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Molecular and Human Genetics, and a core member of the Therapeutic Innovation Center. In addition to my role as a PI, I help teach multiple courses at BCM, and chair the Department of Biochemistry’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee.

From 2014-2019, I was an Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellow in Kevin Weeks' lab in the Department of Chemistry at UNC Chapel Hill. My postdoctoral research focused on developing hybrid chemical/computational strategies for determining RNA structure and dynamics in living cells, and then applying these strategies to understand regulatory mechanisms of mRNAs and non-coding RNAs.

I received my Ph.D. in Biophysics in 2014 from the University of Michigan, where I was co-mentored by Charles Brooks III and Hashim Al-Hashimi. My graduate work focused on developing biophysical models to understand how RNA secondary structure influences RNA tertiary folding and dynamics.  

I did my undergraduate studies at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating in 2009 with degrees in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics.

I am originally a native of Evanston, IL.