Nipavan Chiamvimonvat, MD
  • Chair, Basic Medical Sciences
  • Translational Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Research focus: Cellular and molecular mechanisms contributing to cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death in heart failure
  • 2026 and 2025 mentor
Taben Hale, PhD
  • Vice Chair, Department of Basic Medical Sciences
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Studies
  • Research focuses: Cardiovascular pharmacology, autonomic function and dysfunction, hypertension, fibrosis
  • 2024 mentor
Chris Glembotski, PhD
  • Director, Translational Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Vice Dean, Research
  • Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Research focuses: Hypertrophy, heart failure, ER stress response, ATF6, ischemia, unfolded protein response
  • 2024, 2025 and 2026 mentor
Timothy Marlowe, PhD
  • Director, Molecular Discovery Core
  • Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Research focuses: Structure-based discovery of novel FAK inhibitors, synthesis of peptides and small molecules, biological mechanisms of the FAK pathway in both cancer and fibrosis, drug discovery technology (SPR, NMR, fragment screening, X-ray crystallography).
  • 2023 and 2024 mentor
Hongyu Qiu, MD, PhD
  • Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Translational Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Research focuses: Epigenetic/Genetic Regulation, Cardiovascular Inflammation, Cardiovascular Diseases, Aging-related Cardiovascular Pathologies
  • 2024, 2025 and 2026 mentor
Guy Reed, MD, MS
  • Professor, Internal Medicine, BIO5 Institute
  • Dean Emeritus, College of Medicine - Phoenix
  • Research focuses: Stroke, heart failure, thromboembolism, clot-dissolving therapies
  • 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 mentor
Fred Wondisford, MD, MS, MBA
  • Dean, College of Medicine – Phoenix 
  • Research focuses: Thyroid-stimulating hormone, diabetes, liver diseases, insulin regulation, endocrine disorders
  • 2024, 2025 and 2026 mentor
Liya Yin, MD, PhD
  • Professor, Internal Medicine
  • Translational Cardiovascular Research Center
  • Research focuses: Regulation of Coronary Circulation, Heart Failure, Endothelial Dysfunction in Diabetes, Diabetic Cardiomyopathy, Coronary Collateral Growth, Cardiovascular Regeneration
  • 2025 and 2026 mentor
Sarmed Al-Samerria, PhD
  • Assistant Research Professor, Pediatrics
  • Research focus: Growth hormone (GH) axis and its role in metabolism, growth disorders, and obesity, utilizing molecular genetics and metabolomics to explore GH signaling and IGF-1 regulation with an emphasis on metabolic effects
  • 2025 mentor
Tatiana Kalin, MD, PhD
  • Professor, Child Health
  • Vice Chair, Translational Research, Phoenix Children’s Hospital
  • Research focuses: Pulmonary health, nanoparticle and cellular therapies, molecular mechanisms of lung injury, fibrosis
  • 2025 and 2026 mentor
Vladimir Kalinichenko, MD, PhD
  • Director, Children’s Research Institute
  • Professor, Child Health
  • Research focuses: Pediatric Pulmonary Care Research in lung development & regeneration
  • 2024 mentor
Sally Radovick, MD
  • Professor, Pediatrics
  • Director, Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute
  • Research focuses: Growth and reproductive mechanisms, diabetes, metabolism, regulation of gonadotropin-releasing hormone
  • 2024 mentor
Ayman Fanous, MD
  • Chair, Department of Psychiatry
  • Professor, Psychiatry
  • Research focus: Precision medicine, neuropsychiatric disorders, health disparities, genomics, genetics, clinical psychology 
  • 2024, 2025 and 2026 mentor
Alexander Niculescu, MD, PhD
  • Professor, Psychiatry
  • Director, Center for Precise, Personalized, and Preventive Psychiatry (C4P)
  • Research focuses: Blood biomarkers, personalized medicine, psychiatric disorders, translational research
  • 2025 and 2026 mentor
Ken Knox, MD
  • Vice Dean, Academic and Faculty Affairs
  • Interim Division Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
  • Research focuses: Sarcoidosis, fungal diagnostics, immunologic/fibrotic lung disease, microbiome, mucosal lymphocyte response
  • 2024 mentor
Amelia Gallitano, MD, PhD
  • Professor, Basic Medical Sciences, Psychiatry, and Translational Neurosciences
  • Research focus: schizophrenia, psychiatric disease, neurodegenerative disease, gene-environment interaction, cell signaling
  • 2023 and 2024 mentor 
Isabelle Schrauwen, PhD
  • Associate Professor, Translational Neurosciences
  • Research focus: Neurological disorders, Neurodevelopmental disorders, Hearing loss, Omics-based technologies, Computational bioinformatics and statistical genetics, AI and data science, Rare genetic disorders and precision medicine
  • 2026 mentor 
Melissa Herbst-Kralovetz, PhD
  • Professor, Basic Medical Sciences, Clinical Translational Sciences, Obstetrics & Gynecology, BIO5 Institute
  • Director, Women’s Health Microbiome Initiative
  • Research focuses: Cervical and endometrial cancer, immune responses, vaginal bacteria and microbiome
  • 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 mentor

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