URISE MENTORS

Jermel Watkins MD/PhD

Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Mitochondrial/ Nuclear Communication, Cellular Differentiation, and Oxidative stress

Michelle Waddell PhD

Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Synthesis of Natural Product Analogs

Neelam Azad PhD

Professor and VP for Research
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Cellular and Molecular Biology, Lung cancer and Fibrosis

Insu Hahn PhD

Associate Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry
Biomedical Proteomics, Computational Chemistry of Biochemical Molecules

Isi Ero-Johnson PhD, MS

Associate Professor & Dean
Biological Sciences
Science Education, Extracellular matrix science

Herman Fennell PhD, MS

Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Tyrosine Kinase Receptors and breast cancer

Anand Iyer PhD, MS

Professor and Dean
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Cancer Pharmacology, proteiomics, lipidomics

Juan Yakisich MD/PhD

Assistant Professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Cell & molecular biology, Cancer biology & Molecular Oncology and Pharmacology

Eric Lewallen PhD

Assistant Professor
Biological Sciences
Population genetics, Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary biology

Indu Sharma PhD, MS

Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Microbiology Immunology Biological Techniques

Shawn Dash PhD

Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Entomology, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Taxonomy, Evolution, Ecology

Graham Chakafana PhD

Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Protein Structure and Function, Drug Discovery

Ruben Delgado PhD

Associate Professor
Atmospheric & Planetary Sciences

Jeanette Davis PhD

Assistant Professor
Marine and Environmental Science
eDNA, bacterial symbiosis, climate justice, bioremediation

Gabrielle Smith PhD

Instructor
Mathematics
Epidemiology, Ecology, Computational Biology

Chandra Rajeev PhD

Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
Ovarian Function and Ovarian Cancer

Brian Aufderheide PhD

Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
Modeling, Design, and Control of Chemical, Biological and Biomedical Processes. 

Tanyaradzwa S. Muzata PhD

Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Polymer Processing, Sustainable Polymeric Materials and Rheology

Zhang Kai 

Lecturer
Physics