Manoj Puthenveedu, MBBS, PhD
Director of CMB
Associate Professor of Pharmacology
Faculty
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
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
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
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
Vernon Carruthers, PhD
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Disability Awareness Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
ESCRT, endocytosos, 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
Mark Chiang, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Hematology-Oncology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
T-cell leukemia, T-cell development, Notch, transcriptional genomics, protein-protein interactions
Arul Chinnaiyan, MD, PhD
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
Michael Cianfrocco, PhD
Assistant Professor of Biological Chemistry
Accepting new students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, First Generation-Identified
Research Interests:
microtubule, motor proteins, cryo-EM
Eleanor "Josie" Clowney, PhD
Assistant Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Bystander Training, HHMI Inclusive Mentoring Training
Research Interests:
development, olfaction, neural circuits, genome evolution, sexual dimorphism
Kathleen Collins, MD, PhD
Internal Medicine/Micro and Imm
Gabriel Corfas, PhD
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery