AgriLife Research director’s awards honor faculty, staff, projects

Awards recognize exceptional agency contributions

by Kay Ledbetter

January 7, 2025

Weston Porter, PhD, was honored with the Agrilife Faculty Fellow award.

Weston Porter, Ph.D., is a professor and the Fred A. and Vola N. Palmer Chair in Comparative Oncology in the Department of Veterinary Physiology and Pharmacology within the College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS). He is a leading expert in mammary gland development and breast cancer, with research interests in metabolic adaptation, circadian rhythm disruption and Down Syndrome. He also teaches tumor cell biology and environmental health. Porter has been highly successful in research and mentoring undergraduate and graduate students. He has been directly involved in more than $30 million in National Institutes of Health research projects. He is also the director of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) P30 Texas A&M Center for Environmental Health Research (TiCER). He is a recipient of the Outstanding Graduate Student and Postdoc Mentor Award in the VMBS.