FACULTY MENTORS
The following faculty were selected to serve as Faculty Mentors to the cohort of October 2023 ISFS 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.
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Gladys Alexandre, PhD
University of Tennessee
Professor and Head
Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology
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Herdeline Ardoña, PhD
University of California, Irvine
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
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Francisco Barrera, PhD
University of Tennessee
Associate Professor
Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology
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Julie Bastarache, MD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Associate Professor
Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Center for Lung Research
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Raymond Blind, PhD
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Assistant Professor
Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism
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Silvia De Rubeis, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
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David Dominguez-Sola, MD, PhD
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Associate Professor
Department of Oncological Sciences
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Wendy Gilbert, PhD
Yale University
Associate Professor
Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
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Paul Greer, PhD
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Assistant Professor
Program in Molecular Medicine
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Katherine Hixon, PhD
Dartmouth College
Assistant Professor
Thayer School of Engineering
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Alex Kentsis, MD, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College
Associate Professor
Molecular Pharmacology
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Michael Lampson, PhD
University of Pennsylvania
Professor
Department of Biology
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Hui-Ting Lee, PhD
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
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Brian Lewis, PhD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical
Professor
Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology
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Harvey Lodish, PhD
MIT
Professor
Biology and Biomedical Engineering
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Seth Margolis, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Associate Professor
Biological Chemistry
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Shaeri Mukherjee, PhD
UCSF
Associate Professor
Microbiology and Immunology
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Mary Munson, PhD
University of Massachusetts Chan Medical
Professor and Vice Chair of Diversity
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Technology
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Jeanette Papp, PhD
UCLA
Adj. Professor and Vice Chair of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Department of Human Genetics
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Xyanthine Parillon, MA, PhD, EdD
University of Houston Downtown
Faculty
Natural Science
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Renato Polimanti, PhD
Yale University
Associate Professor
Psychiatry
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Vijay Ramchandani, PhD
NIH / NIAAA
Senior Investigator
Human Psychopharmacology Lab
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Mara Sherman, PhD
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Associate Member
Cancer Biology and Genetics Program
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Julie Siegenthaler, PhD
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics - Section of Developmental Biology
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Durga Udayakumar, PhD
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Assistant Professor
Radiology, Advanced Imaging Research Center
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Aaron Zorn, PhD
Children’s Hospital Research Foundation
Professor
Department of Pediatrics