Ben Allen, Ph.D.
CMB Interim Director
Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology
Faculty: all
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mark Chiang, MD, Ph.D.
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, Ph.D.
Michigan Center for Translational Pathology
Michael Cianfrocco, Ph.D.
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, Ph.D.
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, Ph.D.
Professor
Internal Medicine and Microbiology & Immunology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Research Interests:
pathogen/trafficking/drug development/virus/immunology
Trainings and Identities:
Mentor/Admissions Cmte Member, NIH PREP; Speaker, NIH Bridging the Gap; PI/Mentor, NIH diversity supplements; Member, ASCI DEI Committee; Advisor, MSTP SMART and INSPIRE; Advisor, MSTP DEI Cmte
Gabriel Corfas, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Research Interests
cellular - molecular - developmental neuroscience
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
Implicit Bias Training, Bystander Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Create Trust by Asking Questions: The Art of Humble Inquiry
Pierre A. Coulombe, Ph.D.
G. Carl Huber Professor and Chair, Cell & Developmental Biology
Accepting New Students?
Yes
Trainings and Identities:
MORE Mentor Training, Implicit Bias Training, Gender Bias or Discrimination Training, Leading the department I chair, CDB, regarding DEI and climate issues., first-generation-identified (college grad)
Research Interests:
Tissue homeostasis, cell differentiation, genetic skin diseases, cancer, nucleus
