2021-2022 FACULTY MENTORS

The following faculty were selected to serve as Faculty Mentors to the ISFS 2021-2022 Fellows. Fellows were paired with a faculty member who demonstrates commitment to mentoring/advancing DEI in academia and is in a similar research field. Faculty Mentors commit to supporting and advocating for Fellows by promoting their work, providing advice for their faculty search, and/or connecting them with opportunities.

Aaron Zorn Director, Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine Division of Developmental Biology Cincinnati Children’s Hospital  

Cari Vanderpool PhD Professor and Associate Head Microbiology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Gira Bhabha PhD Assistant Professor Cell Biology NYU School of Medicine

Jason MacGurn PhD Associate Professor Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt University

Ki Goosens PhD Associate Professor Psychiatry Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Michael Caplan M.D., Ph.D. C.N.H. Long Professor and Chair Cellular and Molecular Physiology Yale University School of Medicine

Ray Blind PhD Assistant Professor Medicine, Biochemistry, Pharmacology Vanderbilt University

Tristan Shuman PhD Assistant Professor Neuroscience Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Wendy Gilbert PhD Associate Professor Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Yale University

Abha Rajbhandari PhD Assistant Professor Psychiatry Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Chris Rodgers PhD Assistant Professor Neurosurgery Emory University

Harvey Lodish PhD, DSc (hc) Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering Whitehead Institute and MIT

Jeanette Papp PhD Professor
Department of Human Genetics
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Kristen Brennand PhD Professor Psychiatry Yale University

Michael Lampson PhD Professor Cell and Developmental Biology University of Pennsylvania

Roger Colbran PhD Professor & Vice-Chair Molecular Physiology & Biophysics Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Vijay Ramchandani PhD Senior Investigator and Lab Chief Human Psychopharmacology Laboratory NIH/NIAAA

Wonder Drake MD Professor Medicine Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Akanshi Munjal   Assistant Professor Cell Biology Duke University School of Medicine

David Dominguez-Sola MD PhD Assistant Professor Oncological Sciences Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Herdeline Ardona PhD Assistant Professor Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering UC Irvine

Jessica Tucker PhD Assistant Professor Department of Microbiology and Immunology University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine

Mandar Muzumdar MD Assistant Professor Genetics Yale University

Michael Nitabach  PhD, JD Professor Physiology and Genetics, Neuroscience Yale University

Russell DeBose-Boyd PhD Professor Molecular Genetics University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Vivian Gama PhD Associate Professor Cell and Developmental Biology Vanderbilt University

Brian Lewis PhD Professor Molecular, Cell & Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Francisco Barrera PhD Associate Professor Biochemistry & Cellular and Molecular Biology University of Tennessee

Ira Hall PhD Professor Genetics Yale University

Julie Siegenthaler PhD Associate Professor Pediatrics University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus

Mary Munson PhD Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology Univ of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester

Paul Greer PhD Assistant Professor Program in Molecular Medicine University of Massachusetts Medical School

Thomas Biederer PhD Associate Professor Neurology Yale School of Medicine

Wendy Garrett MD PhD Professor Immunology & Infectious Diseases Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health