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