Anthony (Tony) Mustoe, Ph.D.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Therapeutic Innovation Center (THINC) and the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Molecular and Human Genetics at Baylor College of Medicine. I am also a member of the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center. I am fascinated by how RNA sequences encode biology and in developing experimental and computational technologies to understand the biochemical mechanisms underpinning RNA function. My work has been recognized with CPRIT Scholar, Beckman Young Investigator, and Arnold O. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship awards.

Prior to starting my own lab, I was a postdoctoral fellow in Kevin Weeks' lab in the Department of Chemistry at UNC Chapel Hill, where I helped develop single-molecule correlated chemical probing as a new strategy for measuring RNA structure and dynamics in living cells. I also helped lead one of the first large-scale efforts to define mRNA structures in living cells and their roles in regulating translation.

I completed my Ph.D. in Biophysics in from the University of Michigan, where I worked with Charles Brooks III and Hashim Al-Hashimi to develop molecular dynamics methods to understand the forces driving RNA folding. I completed 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.