Phyu P Aung, M.D., Ph.D.

Phyu P Aung, M.D., Ph.D., is a High Senior Professor at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Her research integrates dermatopathology, surgical pathology, and oncology, with a focus on melanoma, cutaneous adverse events from targeted therapies, and immunologic biomarkers. Recent work includes characterizing deep penetrating nevus-like melanomas beyond CTNNB1/APC mutations, assessing skeletal muscle invasion in Merkel cell carcinomas, and evaluating PD-L1 expression and CD274 alterations in melanoma. She also investigates dermatologic toxicities of antibody-drug conjugates and germline mutation-associated melanocytic lesions, contributing to diagnostic precision and therapeutic outcome prediction in skin cancer.