INAGURAL FACULTY MENTORS

The following faculty were selected to serve as a Faculty Mentors to the inaugural cohort of ISFS Fellows. Fellows were paired with a faculty member who demonstrates commitment to mentoring/advancing DEI in academia and are 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.

Shirin Bahmanyar, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University

Roger Colbran, PhD Professor and Vice Chair of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Vanderbilt University

Wendy Garrett, MD, PhD
Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Marc Hammarlund, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Genetics and Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine

Harvey Lodish, PhD Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Founding Member, Whitehead Institute

Mary Munson, PhD Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Yukiko Yamashita, PhD Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Gira Bhabha, PhD
Assistant Professor,
Department of Cell Biology Skirball Institute, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Seth Darst, PhD
Jack Fishman Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Antonio Giraldez, PhD Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Genetics, Chair of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine

Alyssa Hasty, PhD
Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Associate Dean for Faculty of the Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University

Sebastian Lourido, PhD Latham Family Career Development Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute

Sanford (Sandy) Simon, PhD Professor, Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, The Rockefeller University

Venetia Zachariou, PhD Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacological Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Jean-Ju Chung, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology,
Yale School of Medicine

Susan Dymecki, MD, PhD
Professor of Genetics,
Harvard Medical School

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

Valerie Horsley, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, and Dermatology, Yale University

Ben Major, PhD
Alan A. and Edith L. Wolff Professor of Cell Biology and Physiology, and Otolaryngology, Washington University in St. Louis

Stephen Smale, PhD
Sherie L. and Donald G. Morrison Chair, Molecular Immunology; Distinguished Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics; Vice Dean for Research, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Ann Cohen, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh

Richard Finnell, PhD
William T Butler MD Dist Chair, Professor, Departments of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine

Kathy Gould, PhD
Louise B. McGavock Professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Senior Associate Dean for Biomedical Research, Education, and Career Development, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Rebecca Ihrie, PhD Associate Professor, Cell & Developmental Biology and of Neurological Surgery, Vanderbilt University

Daniel Mucida, PhD Associate Professor, Laboratory of Mucosal Immunology, The Rockefeller University

Seychelle Vos, PhD Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology