Manoj Puthenveedu, MBBS, PhD
Director of CMB
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
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Ben Allen, PhD
Associate Director of CMB
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Marina Pasca di Magliano, PhD
Associate Director of CMB
Professor of Surgery
Ariella Shikanov, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Associate Director of CMB
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
Carlos Aguilar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Accepting New Students?
No
Trainings and Identities:
CMB DEI Task Force, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Self Identified: Hispanic/Latino
Research Interests:
Stem Cells, Genomics, Aging, Muscle
Anthony Antonellis, PhD
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 antonell@umich.edu
Research Interests:
Transcriptional regulation; genetic and molecular mechanisms of Mendelian disease
David Antonetti, PhD
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
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, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
Protein quality control at eukaryotic membranes
James Bardwell, PhD
Professor of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
chaperone action, chaperone discovery, directed evolution, nicotine addiction
Sami Barmada, MD, PhD
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, PhD
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
Hannah Bell
MSTP Student
Joined CMB:
2019
CMB Mentor:
Yatrik Shah, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Instutution:
University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests:
I am studying how immunotherapy such as treatment with PDL-1 and CTLA4 affects the immune profile of tumors in mice.
Rachel Benedeck
Joined CMB:
2022
Research Interests:
cell communication, pathogenesis, translational research
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, PhD
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, PhD
Computation and Bioinformatics, Human Genetics, Medical School
Chad Brenner, PhD
Cell and Systems Biology, Genomics/Proteomics, Computational Biology, Cancer Biology
Matthew J. Brody
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.
Sally Camper, PhD
Margery W. Shaw Distinguished University Professor of Human Genetics
Accepting New Students?
No
Research Interests:
Birth defects research, organogenesis, mouse models of human disease, neuroendocrine development and function, growth insufficiency
Faith Carranza
Joined CMB:
2022
Mentor:
Scott Leiser, Ph.D.
Undergraduate Institution:
Millersville University
Vernon Carruthers, PhD
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, PhD
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
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)