ISFS January 2021

Fellow Selection and Advisory 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

Faculty Engagement Committee

  • 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