Nov 24, 2025
- Stewart Lab will host Fulbright Scholar Dr. Reaz Uddin from Pakistan to improve computer tools for studying diseases.
- Dr. Paul Stewart received two major grants to advance lung cancer research and treatment response studies.
- The lab studies how cancer cells interact with their surroundings to find better therapy options.
- Stewart’s team creates computer programs to identify disease markers and new treatment targets.
The Stewart Lab in the Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology and the Huntsman Cancer Institute have been selected to host a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Reaz Uddin, from the University of Karachi (Pakistan). Uddin will join the lab to advance computational methods for spatial metabolomics and to develop new analysis strategies that apply this emerging technology to understanding disease processes.
In addition to the lab’s selection as a Fulbright host site, principal investigator Dr. Paul Stewart received an NIH Loan Repayment Program award and an HCI Lung Cancer Center Pilot Award supporting his translational lung cancer research. Both awards fund ongoing bioinformatics efforts to understand tertiary lymphoid structures and the tumor microenvironment, with the goal of identifying features that influence immunotherapy response in non-small cell lung cancer.
Stewart’s research program examines how the tumor microenvironment interacts with redox metabolism, with a particular emphasis on tertiary lymphoid structures and multi-omics approaches. His lab develops computational mass spectrometry tools and applies them to identify biomarkers and therapeutic targets in cancer and other diseases. These recognitions underscore the impact of the team’s work and the collaborative environment that supports it.