Ben Allen, Ph.D.
CMB Interim Director
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
People
Sue Hammoud, Ph.D.
CMB Associate Director
Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Obstetrics and Gynecology
Ariella Shikanov, Ph.D.
CMB Associate Director
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
tissue engineering, reproduction, biomaterials
Niki Grotewold
Editor-in-Chief of Michigan Journal of Medicine
Faculty Mentors
Henry Paulson and Lisa Sharkey
Research Interests
Neurodegenerative diseases, protein quality control pathways, microscopy, brain organoids
Arelis Acevedo-Santiago
Joined CMB:
2024
CMB Mentor:
Sunny Wong
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Puerto Rico in Ponce
Research Interests:
Integumentary biology, healing and regeneration.
Carlos Aguilar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, CMB DEI Task Force, Change It Up!, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Self Identified: Hispanic/Latino
Research Interests:
Stem Cells, Genomics, Aging, Muscle
Grace Aleck
Joined CMB:
2023
CMB Mentor:
Adam Courtney, Ph.D.
Anthony Antonellis, Ph.D.
Professor of Human Genetics
Accepting New Students?
No
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Anti-Racism Training, Disability Awareness Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training [email protected]
Research Interests:
Transcriptional regulation; genetic and molecular mechanisms of Mendelian disease
David Antonetti, Ph.D.
Professor and Scientific Director Kellogg Eye Center Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Diabetic Retinopathy and Stroke
Ruth Azaria
Joined CMB:
2021
CMB Mentor:
Andrew Lieberman, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Univeristy of Michigan
Student Organizations:
Women Excelling More in Math, Engineering, and the Sciences (FEMMES), Biointerfaces Interlaboratory Committees (BIONIC)
Ryan Baldridge, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Protein quality control at eukaryotic membranes
James Bardwell, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
chaperone action, chaperone discovery, directed evolution, nicotine addiction
Sami Barmada, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Angela Dobson and Lyndon Welch Research Professor, Brain Bank Director
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
RNA stability, RNA binding proteins, neurodegeneration, ALS, FTD
Scott Barolo, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology; Director of Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS)
Accepting New Students?
No
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Allyship Training, Anti-Racism Training, Intercultural Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training
Research Interests:
Enhancers, gene expression, developmental cell signaling
Hisham Bazzi
Associate Professor
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Training and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Intercultural Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, First Generation
Daniel Beard, Ph.D.
Molecular & Integrative Biology
Rachel Benedeck
Joined CMB:
2022
CMB Mentor:
Rachel Zemans, MD
Research Interests:
Lung regeneration, Alveolar epithelial cell biology, Role of immune cells in lung regeneration
Christopher Bidlack
Joined CMB:
2019
CMB Mentor:
Karl Desch, Ph.D.
Umdergraduate Institution:
Bucknell University
Honors:
Botanical Society of America Undergraduate Student Research Award Recipient (2017), Phi Sigma member (2018)
Stephanie Bielas, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Human Genetics and Pediatrics, Department of Human Genetics Associate Chair for Research
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Neurogenetics, neural development, chromatin biology, cell fate, mouse and human brain organoids
Markus Bitzer, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Immigrant and Multi-racial-Identified
Research Interests:
Kidney disease, system biology, translational research
Alan Boyle, Ph.D.
Computation and Bioinformatics, Human Genetics, Medical School
Chad Brenner, Ph.D.
Cell and Systems Biology, Genomics/Proteomics, Computational Biology, Cancer Biology
Matthew J. Brody, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
signal transduction, cardiac hypertrophy, heat failure, post-translational modifications
Margarita Brovkina
Joined CMB:
2019
CMB Mentor:
Josie Clowney, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Research Interests:
Understanding gene regulatory networks that govern neuronal circuit formation during development.
Jae Bucknor
Joined CMB:
2023
CMB Mentor:
Chase Weidmann, Ph.D.
Michael Cadigan
Joined CMB:
2022
CMB Mentor:
Nicole Koropatkin
Research Interests:
Structural Biology, Bacteriology, Biochemistry
Faith Carranza-Connors
Joined CMB:
2022
Mentor:
Scott Leiser, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Millersville University
Vernon Carruthers, Ph.D.
Professor and Associate Chair
Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Anti-Racism Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training. First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
ESCRT, endocytosis, autophagy, genetics, infection
Marilia Cascalho, MD, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Intercultural Training, URM- and Immigrant-Identified
Research Interests:
B cell responses to Transplantation. Co-evolution of TNFRSF13B polymorphisms with microbial adaptations. Immunotherapies. Mutable vaccines
Sriram Chandrasekaran, PhD
Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Accepting Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Systems Biology, Drug discovery, Metabolism, Machine Learning, Infectious disease
Trainings:
MORE Mentorship Training
Brandon Chen
Joined CMB:
2020
CMB Mentor:
Yatrik Shah,Ph.D. co-mentor: Costas Lyssiotis, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Emory University
Honors/ Service:
Phi Beta Kappa, HHMI EXROP fellowship/Editor for Journal of Emerging Investigators (JEI)