Peter Tran

Tran, Peter_MDPhD Student

Current Program Year: MS2

M.D./Ph.D. Program Students, School of Medicine

Biography

Research: Cancer Biology, Metabolism, Proteasomal Degradation

Clinical: Dermatology, Otolaryngology, Internal Medicine

Peter Tran is a MD-PhD student from Long Beach, California, where he attended UCLA for both his B.S. (2021) and M.S. (2024) for Physiological Science. Peter has had diverse experiences working in mechanisms of drug resistance in metastatic melanoma and targeting proteasome pathways in adipose metabolism to combat metabolic syndrome and adiposity.

On his free time, Peter enjoys playing sports recreationally (basketball/tennis/golf), 3D-printing, escape rooms, and anything related to games.

Education and training

B.S., 2021, University of California, Los Angeles

M.S., 2024, University of California, Los Angeles

Honors and awards

UCLA Department of Integrative Biology and Physiology Summer Research Fellowship, 2023

UCLA Division of Graduate Education University Fellowship, 2024

Sidney Roberts and Clara Szega Roberts Endowed Scholarship, 2024

Publications

Selected publications

Zhou Z., Moore. T.M., Strumwasser, A.R., Ribas, V., Iwasaki, H., Morrow, N., Ma, A., Tran, P.H., et al. Muscle metabolic resilience and enhanced exercise adaptation by Esr1-induced remodeling of mitochondrial cristae-nucleoid architecture in males. Cell Reports Medicine. 2025 May 5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xcrm.2025.102116

Nagourney, R.A., Evans, S., Tran, P.H., Nagourney, A., Sugarbaker, P.H. Colorectal cancer cells from patients treated with FOLFOX or CAPOX are resistant to oxaliplatin. European Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2021 April 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejso.2020.09.017

Zhou, Z., Ma, A., Moore, T.M., Wolf, D.M., Yang, N., Tran, P., et al. Drp1 controls complex II assembly and skeletal muscle metabolism by Sdhaf2 action on mitochondria. Science Advances. 2024 April 3. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adl0389