Interdisciplinary Program Faculty
Joseph T. Barbieri, PhD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program
Ivor J. Benjamin, MD, FAHA, FACC
Center Director, Professor
Andreas Beyer, PhD
Associate Professor
Ravit Boger, MD
Chief and Professor, Pediatrics Infectious Disease
Ulrich Broeckel, MD
Professor, Pediatrics; Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Physiology and School of Pharmacy; Chief, Section of Genomic Pediatrics; Associate Director, Pharmacogenomics, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine
Joseph Carroll, PhD
Richard O. Schultz, MD / Ruth Works Professor of Ophthalmology Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, Biophysics, and Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy Director, Advanced Ocular Imaging Program
Yi-Guang Chen, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Endocrinology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Magdalena Chrzanowska-Wodnicka, PhD, FAHA
Associate Professor; Pharmacology and Toxicology; Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute
Lisa Ann Cirillo, PhD
Associate Professor; Assistant Dean for Basic Science Curriculum
Jenifer Coburn, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology & Immunology; Center for Infectious Disease Research
Ross Collery, PhD
Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Ranjan Dash, PhD
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering Secondary Appointment - Department of Physiology
Michael Deininger, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Bonnie N. Dittel, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
William R. Drobyski, MD
Mariette C. and Philip W. Orth/Tom Anderson Chair of Oncology; Co-Leader, Discovery and Developmental Therapeutics Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Medicine (Hematology/Oncology), Pediatrics, Microbiology & Immunology
Matt Durand, PhD
Associate Professor; Research Director; Secondary Faculty Appointment in Physiology
Melinda R. Dwinell, PhD
Professor and Eminent Scholar; Associate Director, Education, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine
Michael B. Dwinell, PhD
Professor; Founding Director, Center for Immunology; Director, Bobbie Nick Voss Laboratory for Colon Cancer Research; Hanis-Stepka-Rettig Endowed Chair in Cancer Research
Julie Freed, MD, PhD
Associate Professor; Executive Vice Chair; Director of Clinical Research
Constanza Garcia Keller, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Nashaat Gerges, PhD, BPharm
Professor, Chair of the Department of Biopharmaceutical Sciences
Justin L. Grobe, PhD
Professor, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering; Director, Comprehensive Rodent Metabolic Phenotyping Core
Cecilia J. Hillard, PhD
Associate Dean for Research; Professor; Director, Neuroscience Research Center; G. Frederick Kasten, Jr. Endowed Chair in Parkinson’s Disease Research
Karin Hoffmeister, MD
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Department of Medicine (Hematology and Oncology); Hauske Family Endowed Chair in Glycobiology, Senior Investigator, Blood Research Institute, Versiti
Neil Hogg, PhD
Professor; Director, Redox Biology Program; Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, School of Graduate Studies
Victor X. Jin, PhD
Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Endowed Chair of Bioinformatics and Data Analytics; Professor, IHE/Biostatistics
Bryon D. Johnson, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology/Oncology/BMT) and Microbiology & Immunology
Balaraman Kalyanaraman, PhD
Harry R. & Angeline E. Quadracci Professor in Parkinson’s Research
Christian Kastrup, PhD
Professor, Department of Surgery; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Secondary Faculty
John R. Kirby, PhD
Chair, Microbiology & Immunology; Walter Schroeder Professor in Microbiology and Immunology; Associate Director, Microbiome, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine; Associate Director, Center for Microbiome Research
Candice S. Klug, PhD
James S. Hyde Professor of Biophysics; Director, National Biomedical EPR Center; Program Director, Biophysics Graduate Program
Christopher J. Kristich, PhD
Professor; Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research
Antje Kroner-Milsch, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Peter LaViolette, PhD, MS
Professor; Director, Quantitative Imaging Laboratory; Section of Imaging Research, Division of Imaging Sciences
Gustavo W. Leone, PhD
Professor; Director, MCW Cancer Center; Senior Associate Dean of Cancer Research
Joy Lincoln, PhD
PhD, Professor and Associate Chief, Pediatric Cardiology, Research Director, Pediatric Cardiology, Peter Sommerhauser Chair for Cardiac Quality, Outcomes and Research, Children’s Wisconsin, Director of Cardiovascular Research, Herma Heart Institute; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center
Daniel M. Lipinski, MSc, DPhil
Research Director; Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Wei Liu, PhD
Joseph F. Heil, Jr. Endowed Chair of Molecular Oncogenesis Associate Professor
Robert Lochhead, PhD
Assistant Professor; Secondary Faculty in Medicine (Rheumatology)
Gwen Lomberk, PhD
Chief, Division of Research; Director, Basic Science Research; Department of Surgery; Professor of Surgery and Pharmacology & Toxicology
Yan-Qing Ma, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Associate Adjunct Professor
Subramaniam Malarkannan, PhD
Professor and Gardetto Chair for Immunology and Immunotherapy; Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute
Akiko Mammoto, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Pediatrics (Neonatology)
John Mantsch, PhD
Florence J. Williams Professor and Chair of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Francesca M. Marassi, PhD
Professor, Chair, and Eminent Scholar; Associate Director, MCW Cancer Center Shared Resources
Marja T. Nevalainen, MD, PhD
WBCS Endowed Professor of Prostate Cancer Research, Department of Pathology and Pharmacology & Toxicology; Assistant Dean of Research, Medical College of Wisconsin; Director, Prostate Cancer Center of Excellence at Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center
Debra K. Newman, PhD
Professor, Pharmacology and Toxicology; Senior Investigator at Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Peter J. Newman, PhD
Professor; Vice President for Research, Versiti Blood Center of Wisconsin; Associate Director, Blood Research Institute
Stephanie Olivier-Van Stichelen, PhD
Assistant Professor in Biochemistry; Secondary Faculty in Obstetrics & Gynecology
Sandra L. Pfister, PhD
Interim Director, Clinical Learning Environment Pillar; Member, Faculty Pillar, Kern Institute
Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology/Transplantation and Cell Biology, Neurobiology & Anatomy; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Associate Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute
Daisy Sahoo, PhD
Assistant Professor for Research, Division of Endocrinology and Molecular Medicine; Professor, Medicine (Endocrinology); Secondary Faculty in Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Toxicology
Nita H. Salzman, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Founding Director, Center for Microbiome Research
Kajana Satkunendrarajah, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Neurosurgery; Physiology
Elena Semina, PhD
Marjorie and Joseph Heil Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences; Professor, Pediatrics; Professor, Cell Biology, Neurobiology and Anatomy
Qizhen Shi, MD, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Secondary Faculty in Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy
Curt D. Sigmund, PhD
James J. Smith & Catherine Welsch Smith Professor of Physiology; Chair of Physiology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center
Roy Silverstein, MD
The Linda and John Mellowes Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine
Brian Smith, PhD
Associate Director, Program in Chemical Biology; Associate Professor, Biochemistry
Mary G. Sorci-Thomas, PhD
Professor, Medicine (Endocrinology); Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center; Program Director, CVC T32 Training Program
Aoy Tomita Mitchell, PhD
Professor with Tenure, Department of Surgery, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, and Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Raul A. Urrutia, MD
Professor, Department of Surgery; Director, Linda T. and John A. Mellowes Center for Genomic Sciences and Precision Medicine
James Verbsky, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics (Rheumatology) and Microbiology & Immunology; Medical Director, Clinical Immunology Research Laboratory; Medical Director, Clinical and Translational Research
Brian F. Volkman, PhD
Director, Program in Chemical Biology; Professor, Biochemistry
Demin Wang, PhD
Senior Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Assistant Professor
Renren Wen, PhD
Associate Professor; Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute
Gilbert C. White, II, MD
Executive Vice President for Research and Director, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Richard H. and Sara E. Aster Chair for Medical Research, Blood Center of Wisconsin; Professor, Medicine, Biochemistry and Pharmacology and Toxicology; Associate Dean for Research, Medical College of Wisconsin
Michael E. Widlansky, MD, MPH
Northwestern Mutual Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology; Associate Director, Cardiovascular Center
Calvin B. Williams, MD, PhD
Professor, Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Dean of Research; Associate Director, Medical Scientist Training Program; Chief Scientific Officer, Children's Wisconsin Research Institute; Chief, Pediatric Rheumatology; Vice Chair, Research, Pediatrics
Carol L. Williams, PhD
Joan K. Van Deuren Professor in Breast Cancer Research; Leader, Cancer Biology Research Program, Cancer Center; Professor, Pharmacology & Toxicology
Xue-Zhong Yu, MBA, MS, MD
Professor, Microbiology & Immunology; Associate Director of Basic Sciences in the MCW Cancer Center
Anthony E. Zamora, PhD
Assistant Professor, Medicine (Hematology and Oncology) and Microbiology & Immunology
Jieqing Zhu, PhD
Investigator, Versiti Blood Research Institute; Adjunct Professor
Jacek Zielonka, PhD, DSc
Assistant Professor; Director, Redox & Bioenergetics Shared Resource
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