Every month we focus on an outstanding staff member of the BCM Family. This month, it’s Andy Guo with the Baylor Licensing Group.

Q. Andy Guo

Name: Q. Andy Guo, Ph.D.

Title: Marketing and Licensing Specialist

Department: Baylor Licensing Group

How long have you been at BCM? I attended graduate school in the TBMM program at BCM in 2007 and joined the Baylor Licensing Group in 2013.

What’s your favorite thing about working at BCM? Working with outstanding and highly professional colleagues to pursue and promote biomedical innovations

Where were you born? Shandong Province, China

What is your favorite kind of food? Cantonese

What is your favorite restaurant in Houston, and at that restaurant your favorite dish? Roasted duck at the East Wall Restaurant

What’s on your music playlist? “The Wheels on the Bus” and all other songs my two-year-old loves!

What is your dream vacation? A family cruise vacation to Europe

What is your favorite TV show? “The Good Wife,” the best legal drama in my opinion, and I enjoy reading the blog “’The Good Wife’: Good Law?” that comments on the legal facts of each episode.

Complete this sentence: Most people wouldn’t know that I … did research on photosynthesis in cyanobacteria when I was in college.

What are some of your personal hobbies? Working out in the gym, taking interesting Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and trying different restaurants in Houston

Last book you read? “Negotiation Genius” by Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman

Last movie you saw? “Interstellar”

Any kids? Pets? Two little boys, and no time for pets yet…

Favorite food on campus? Seafood gumbo soup

Favorite BCM/Medical Center hangout? Black Walnut in the Rice Village