Mentors
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Discover the diverse group of participating mentors in the training program, offering expertise and guidance to support academic and research development.
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| Name/Degree(s) | Rank | Research Topics | *Primary (& Secondary) Appointment(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alsberg, Eben PhD | Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Biomedical Engineering | Stem Cell Behavior, Biomaterials Development, Bioactive Factor Delivery, and Biomechanics | Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Pharmacology, and Orthopaedics |
| Behnsen, Judith PhD | Associate Professor | The Complex Interplay between Host, Pathogen, and Microbiota | Microbiology and Immunology |
| Carlier, Paul R PhD | Professor | Promote New Drug Discovery, Collaboration and Cancer Research | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Chronis, Kostantinos, PhD | Associate Professor | Stem Cell Biology and Tissue Reprogramming | Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics |
| Du, Xiaoping PhD | Professor | Signaling Mechanisms in Thrombosis and Hemostasis | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Dudek, Steven MD | Professor | Acute Lung Injury and Vascular Cell Biologics | Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy (Pharmacology & Reg Medicine) |
| Eddington, David PhD | Associate Professor | Microfluidic Device Engineering to Study Lung Vascular Signaling | Bioengineering [College of Engineering] |
| Gao, Ruixuan PhD | Assistant Professor | Spatial Omics, Fluorescence Microscopy, Super-resolution Microcopy | Chemistry |
| Gordeuk, Victor MD | Professor | Lung Vascular Injury in Sickle Cell Disease | Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology |
| Hay, Nissim PhD | Professor | Regulation of Cell Survival and Proliferation | Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics |
| Karginov, Andrei PhD | Associate Professor | Endothelial Signaling by Kinases | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine (Cancer Center) |
| Khetani, Salman PhD | Associate Professor | Engineering of Organ-on-a-Chip Systems | Bioengineering |
| Kim, Kiwook PhD | Assistant Professor | Lung Macrophages | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Kitajewski, Jan K PhD | Professor & Head | Notch Regulation of Endothelial Differentiation | Physiology & Biophysics |
| Komarova, Yulia PhD | Associate Professor | Endothelial Barrier Function in the Lung | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Levitan, Irena PhD | Professor | Lipid Signaling in Endothelial Cells | Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy (Pharmacology) (Bioengineering) [College of Engineering] |
| Liu, Ying PhD | Professor | Drug Delivery, Biomaterials, Nanotechnology | Chemical Engineering |
| Liu, Yuru PhD | Associate Professor | Lung Epithelial Repair and Regeneration | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Mehta, Dolly PhD | Professor | Signaling of Lung Injury and Repair | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine Center for Lung & Vascular Biology |
| Minshall, Richard D. PhD | Professor | Lung Vascular Homeostasis and Repair | Anesthesiology Center for Lung & Vascular Biology (Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine) |
| Mo, Chia Hao Mo “Gary” PhD | Assistant Professor | Macrophage Polarization in Lung Injury and Repair | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Moore, Terry W PhD | Associate Professor | Creation of Natural Product Analogs (Antimicrobial Peptide, Apidaecin). | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Murthy, Preetish Kadur Lakshmi-narasimha PhD | Assistant Professor | Lung Biology, Stem Cells and Regeneration. | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Naba, Alexandra PhD | Associate Professor | Roles of the Extracellular Matrix in Development, Health, and Disease | Physiology and Biophysics |
| Ong, Sang Ging PhD | Assistant Professor | iPSCs and Vascular Disease Modeling | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Pajcini, Kostandin PhD | Assistant Professor | Notch Signaling in the Vasculature | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Park, Gye Young MD | Associate Professor | Role of Innate Immunology in Asthma | Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy |
| Peng, Zhangli PhD | Assistant Professor | Multiscale Modeling of Soft Biological Materials, | Biomedical Engineering |
| Pinho, Sandra PhD | Assistant Professor | Regulation of healthy hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells by the bone marrow microenvironment | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine |
| Rehman, Jalees MD | Professor | Inflammatory and Regenerative Mechanisms in Lung Vasculature | Medicine, Division of Cardiology (Pharmacology) |
| Rosenblatt, Mark MD, PhD | Professor & Dean | VEGF/VEGFR2 Signaling | Ophthalmology |
| Shin, Jae-Won, PhD | Assistant Professor | Biomaterials to Enhance Regeneration | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine & Bioengineering |
| Sun, Jun, PhD | Professor | Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease | Medicine |
| Tan, Xiao-Di, PhD | Professor | Mucosal Immunology and epithelial wound-healing | Pediatrics |
| Tahmasebi, Soroush, PhD | Assistant Professor | mRNAs in Physiological/ Pathological condition | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine & Bioengineering |
| Tiruppathi, Chinnaswamy PhD | Professor | Signaling Pathways of Ubiquitination and Lung Injury | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine Center for Lung & Vascular Biology |
| Villegas, Jose A. PhD | Assistant Professor | Computational and Chemical approaches to rational drug design | Pharmaceutical Sciences |
| Wang, Xiaowei PhD | Professor | Computational and experimental analyses to identify microRNA targets | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine & Cancer Center |
| Wary, Kishore PhD | Associate Professor | Wnt Signaling in Neovascularization and Lung Vascular Regeneration | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine Center for Lung & Vascular Biology (Bioengineering) [College of Engineering] |
| Yamada Kaori PhD | Assistant Professor | Angiogenesis, Vascular Permeability, Eye Diseases, Cancer Metastasis, Molecular Trafficking | Pharmacology & Regenerative Medicine Center for Lung & Vascular Biology (Bioengineering) [College of Engineering] |
* All training faculty members are in the College of Medicine unless otherwise noted. Heading link
* All training faculty members are in the College of Medicine unless otherwise noted.