2021-2022 FACULTY CONTRIBUTORS

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

Amber Stratman, PhD - Assistant Professor, Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

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

Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH - Associate Professor, Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Anne Eichman, PhD - Ensign Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Professor of Cellular And Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine

Antentor Hinton, PhD - Incoming Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine

Anton Bennett, PhD - Dorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Pharmacology and Professor of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Antonio Giraldez, PhD - Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Genetics; Chair, Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine

Aravinthan Samuel, PhD - Professor of Physics, Harvard University

Ashton Murray, MDiv - Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center

Becky Lamason, PhD - Robert A. Swanson Career Development Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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

Bruce Walker, MD - Founding Director, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard; Professor of Medicine, Harvard University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Darin Latimore, MD - Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine), Yale School of Medicine

David Asai, PhD - Senior Director for Science Education, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

David Piston, PhD - Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Professor and Head, Cell Biology and Physiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, PhD - Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Elias Lolis, PhD - Professor of Pharmacology; Faculty Director, Office of Postdoctoral Affairs, Yale School of Medicine

Eliezer Calo, PhD - Irwin W. and Helen Sizer Career Development Professor, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Erin Heckler, PhD - Director of Postdoctoral Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis

Faye Rogers, PhD - Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale School of Medicine

Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD - Director, Yale Ciencia Program, Yale School of Medicine

Gira Bhabha, PhD - Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology, Skirball Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center

Harvey Lodish, PhD - Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering, MIT; Founding Member, Whitehead Institute

Ilya Nemenman, PhD - Winship Distinguished Research Professor of Physics and Biology, Emory College of Arts and Sciences

Ira Hall, PhD - Director, Yale Center for Genome Health, Yale School of Medicine

Itan Yuval, PhD - Assistant Professor, Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Icahn Institute for Data Science and Genomic Technology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Javier Irazoqui, PhD - Associate Professor of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Jessica Silva-Fisher, PhD - Instructor and Principal Investigator, Division of Oncology, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Jishnu Das, PhD - Assistant Professor of Immunology and Computational Biology, University of Pittsburgh

Kara McKinley, PhD - Assistant Professor of Stem and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Keara Michelle Lane, PhD - Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University

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

Kim Blenman, PhD - Associate Research Scientist, Medical Oncology, Yale School of Medicine

Linda Jackson, MS - Associate Director, Diversity Office; Director of Educational Outreach Programs, Yale School of Medicine

Magdalena Janecka, PhD - Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Seaver Autism Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Mary Mullins, PhD - Professor of Cell & Developmental Biology Department, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Merle Waxman, MA - Associate Dean and Director, Office for Women in Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Michael Caplan, MD, PhD - C. N. H. Long Professor of Cellular And Molecular Physiology and Professor of Cell Biology; Chair, Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Yale School of Medicine

Michele Carpenter, MBA - Program Manager, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine

Patrick Pagano, PhD - Professor of Pharmacology & Chemical Biology, University of Pittsburgh

Pulin Li, PhD - Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering, Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Member, Whitehead Institute

Quinton Smith, PhD - Incoming Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Irvine

Ray Blind, PhD - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Biochemistry, and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Robert Froemke, PhD - Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, and of Neuroscience and Physiology, Skirball Institute, NYU Langone Medical Center

Rochelle Smith, MS - Associate Dean of Diversity and Inclusion & Associate Chief Diversity Officer, Yale School of Medicine

Rosana Colaso-Gonzalez, PharmD, MPH - Assistant Professor in the Physician Associate Program, Department of Medicine; Faculty Director, Workforce Development and Research Core, Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC), General Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine

Ruth Franklin, PhD - Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University

Sanford M. Simon, PhD - Professor, Laboratory of Cellular Biophysics, Rockefeller University

Sarah Fortune, MD - John LaPorte Given Professor and Chair of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Schahram Akbarian, MD, PhD - Professor, Neuroscience and Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Sherree Wilson, PhD - Associate Vice Chancellor and Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Sujit S. Datta, PhD - Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

Tameka Clemons, PhD - Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Cancer Biology, Meharry Medical College

Thomas Biederer, PhD - Associate Professor of Neurology, Yale School of Medicine

Titilayo Omotade, PhD - Research Associate, Yale Ciencia Initiative, Yale School of Medicine

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

Vishwa Deep Dixit, DVM, PhD - Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Comparative Medicine and of Immunobiology, Yale School of Medicine

Vivian Gama, PhD - Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Vanderbilt School of Medicine

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

Zack Smith, PhD - Assistant Professor, Yale Stem Cell Center and Department of Genetics, Yale School of Medicine

Dr. Judith Agudo, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Immunology

Dr. Ruaidhri Jackson, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Immunology

Mitzi I. Kuroda, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Vonda Shannon, MEd, Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Ruth A. Franklin, PhD, Harvard University, Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

Sahand Hormoz, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology

Sean Megason, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Department of Systems Biology

Polina Kehayova, PhD, Harvard University, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology

James Gould, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Office for Postdoctoral Fellows

Sarah Fortune, MD, Harvard University, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases

Frank Malafonte, The Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health

Javier Irazoqui, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Microbiology and Physiological Systems, Program Innate Immunity

Milena Bugonovic, MD PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Pathology

Victor Ambros, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Program in Molecular Medicine

Mary Munson, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Eric Sontheimer, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, RNA Therapeutics Institute

Leslie Shaw, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Molecular, Cell and Cancer Biology

Hemant Khanna, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Pranoti Mandrekar, PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Department of Medicine

Daniel Mucida, PhD, The Rockefeller University, Immunology, Virology and Microbiology

Sohail Tavazoie, MD, PhD, The Rockefeller University, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology and Structural Biology

Kivanç Birsoy, PhD, The Rockefeller University, Cancer Biology

Jeremy Rock, PhD, The Rockefeller University, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology and Structural Biology

Ekaterina Vinogradova, PhD, The Rockefeller University, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology and Structural Biology

David Bartel, PhD, Whitehead Institute, MIT Biology

Amber Stratman, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology

Ben Major, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Cell Biology and Physiology

Lilianna Solnica-Krezel, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Department of Developmental Biology

Paula Kavathas, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Immunobiology

Anne Eichmann, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Michael Caplan, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology

Kristen Brennand, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry

Jamaine Davis, PhD, Meharry Medical College, Office of Research

Walter Boron, MD, PhD, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Physiology and Biophysics

W. Marcus Lambert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, Office of Student Diversity

Christopher Li, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

Gregory Payne, PhD, University of California Los Angeles

Naoko Tanese, PhD, NYU Langone Health, Center for Human Genetics and Genomics

Keith Micoli, PhD, NYU Langone Health, Postdoctoral Affairs

Joseph Buxbaum, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Genetics and Genomics

Ann-Gel Palermo, DrPH, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Black Family Stem Cell Institute

Abha Rajbhandari, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Psychiatry

Venetia Zachariou, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Department of Neuroscience

Ki Ann Goosens, PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Departments of Pharmacology and Psychiatry

Sunder Sims-Lucas, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics

Patrick Joseph Pagano, PhD, FAHA, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Departments of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology

William Bialek, PhD, Princeton University, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics

Mohamed Donia, PhD, Princeton University, Department of Molecular Biology

Linda Sealy, PhD, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

David Goldstein, PhD, Columbia University, Institute of Genomic Medicine

Benjamin Neale, PhD, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research

Maja Bucán, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Genetics

Mary Mullins, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology

Kristen Lynch, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Kevin Foskett, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Physiology

Jonathan Raper, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience

David Raizen, MD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Chronobiology and Sleep Institute

Chris Yarosh, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Institute of Regenerative Medicine

Shelley Berger, PhD, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Epigenetics Institute

Paul Frenette, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology

Yaihara Fortis Santiago, PhD, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Postdoctoral Affairs and Trainee Diversity Initiatives

Thierry Emonet, PhD, Yale University, Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology

Kathryn Miller-Jensen, PhD, Yale University, Department of Biomedical Engineering

Shawn Ferguson, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Cell Biology

Ya-Chi Ho, MD, PhD, MMS, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Microbial Pathogenesis

Caroline Hendry, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Genetics

Janghoo Lim, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience

Pietro De Camilli, MD, Yale School of Medicine, Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Arya Mani, MD, FA, FAHA, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology

Jun Lu, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Stem Cell Center

Gary Hunnicutt, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Cancer Center

Nina Stachenfeld, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences

Tara Noel, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Ifat Levy, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Comparative Medicine

Lynne Maquat, PhD, University of Rochester, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Ilya Nemenman, PhD, Emory College of Arts and Sciences