Adam Stein, MD, PhD
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Taubman Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor, Internal medicine
Dr. Stein studies epigenetic mechanisms in the heart, and how this relates to cardiovascular aging and disease.
Sami Barmada, M.D., Ph.D.
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Assistant Professor, Neurology
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Angela Dobson Welch and Lyndon Welch Research Professor
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Danto Emerging Scholar
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Speeding recovery after muscle and joint injuries
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Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor, Sports Medicine, Shoulder, & Hip Preservation Surgery
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Director, Sports Medicine Research Program, U-M MedSport
In addition to helping patients as an orthopaedic surgeon, Dr. Bedi is using cellular and molecular studies on human tissues to fuel discoveries that may help speed the healing of muscle tissue and identify or prevent the causes of joint deterioration.
Sung Won Choi, MD
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Edith S. Briskin and Shirley K. Schlafer Foundation Research Professor
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Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Dr. Choi’s research is on the prevention and treatment of graft versus host disease (GVHD), the major
complication of bone transplantation treatment for hematologic cancers. With her collaborator, Dr. Pavan Reddy,she has taken laboratory insights into a novel clinical trial of GVHD prevention and is working to lower the incidence of acute GVHD and ultimately improve upon survival and quality of life following bone marrow transplantation.
Katherine Gallagher, MD
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Friends of Judy and Alfred Taubman Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor of Surgery
Dr. Gallagher is a vascular surgeon with expertise in the management and treatment of peripheral arterial disease,particularly in patients with diabetes. Her research focuses on understanding how inflammation, immune cell function, and bone marrow stem cells influence wound healing in diabetes in an effort to design novel therapeutic agents and treatments.
Johann Gudjonsson, MD, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Dermatology
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Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar
Dr. Gudjonsson has a clinical practice in dermatology, and in the laboratory, studies psoriasis and other autoimmune diseases at the genetic level. He has initiated several human clinical trials of new therapies, including one that studies the use of Vitamin B12 in treating psoriasis.
J. Michelle Kahlenberg, MD, PhD
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Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine (Rheumatology)
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Parfet Emerging Scholar
Dr. Kahlenberg research focuses on how the innate immune system, specifically the inflammasome, impacts the development of autoimmune diseases and their subsequent complications. Currently, she is investigating how the inflammasome contributes to the development of cardiovascular disease in lupus.
Alon Kahana, MD, PhD
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Mrs. William Davidson Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor and Helmut F. Stern Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Dr. Kahana is a surgeon with a clinical interest in disorders affecting the eye, such as tumors, cancers, thyroid disease,and other inherited eye diseases. In the laboratory, he is harnessing the power of zebrafish and stem cells to understand the molecular basis of eye disorders, regenerate human tissue, and develop new approaches to treat eye conditions.
Todd Morgan, MD
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Assistant Professor, Urology
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Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar
Dr. Morgan is a urological surgeon specializing in the treatment of genitourinary malignancies, and his research focuses on understanding the early spread of prostate cancer cells in the blood. His aim is to identify patients with the most aggressive tumors and develop appropriate therapeutic strategies for these individuals.
Erika A. Newman, MD
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Edith Briskin Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery
Dr. Newman’s clinical interest in pediatric oncology led her study neuroblastoma, the most common extra cranial solid cancer in children. Through research aimed at understanding the developmental pathways in the cells that underlie this disease, she is enhancing our understanding of neuroblastoma pathogenesis and supporting the development of improved treatment strategies.
Parag Patil, MD, PhD
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Young Friends of the Taubman Institute Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor Neurosurgery, Anesthesiology, and Biomedical Engineering
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Co-Director, Movement Disorders Program and Psychiatric Neuromodulation Program
Dr. Patil is a neurosurgeon with clinical expertise in deep brain stimulation therapies for movement disorders and depression and surgical therapies for neurological conditions. In the laboratory, he is using engineering, imaging,and operative techniques to study deep brain stimulation treatments in order to develop the next generation of future brain pacemaker devices. He also works with Dr. Eva Feldman in the first-ever stem cell trial for patients with ALS.
Rajesh C. Rao, MD
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Assistant Professor, Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
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Assistant Professor, Pathology
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Leslie and Abigail Wexner Emerging Scholar
Dr. Rajesh Rao is an ophthalmologist and his long-term goal is to use stem cell biology and epigenetics to decipher the pathogenesis of retinal disease. He is developing a stem cell therapy for age-related macular degeneration and also hopes to develop novel pharmacologic gene and cell-based clinical therapies to promote regeneration and reduce scar and tumor formation for patients with blinding retinal diseases.
Srijan Sen, MD, PhD
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Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Professor of Depression and Neurosciences
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Dr. Sen is a psychiatrist with an interest in depression. Using cutting-edge genomic techniques, his laboratory is studying medical interns, a unique cohort of individuals subjected to chronic stress, to identify gene-stress interactions that moderate stress and depression, identify non-genetic biomarkers that predict depression development, and ultimately to identify novel therapies for people suffering from depression.
Kanakadurga Singer, MD
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Assistant Professor, Pediatric Endocrinology
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Edith Briskin / SKS Foundation Emerging Scholar
Dr. Singer is a pediatric endocrinologist, and her research seeks to understand how obesity-induced inflammation progresses to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases like insulin resistance and diabetes. By investigating the mechanisms linking obesity and systemic inflammation, she hopes to identify effective medical and dietary interventions to prevent the diseases associated with pediatric obesity.
Scott Tomlins, MD, PhD
Dr. Tomlins is a pathologist with expertise in prostate cancer genomics. His laboratory is focused on utilizing high-throughput approaches to characterize prostate, bladder, and adrenocortical cancers at the molecular level to understand cancer biology and identify clinically relevant biomarkers and therapeutic targets.
Karen McLean, MD, PhD
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Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Dr. McLean’s research focuses on the role of stem cells in ovarian cancer development and recurrence, and the preclinical and clinical investigation of new treatments for ovarian cancer.
Sascha Goonewardena, MD
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Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor, Cardiology
Dr. Goonewardena’s research focuses on nanotechnology to improve and refine therapies for cardia disorders.
Corey Speers, MD, PhD
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Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology
Dr. Speer’s research focuses on a personalized approach to breast cancer treatment, finding more effective, targeted therapies for patients depending on the genetic characteristics of their tumors.
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Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
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Assistant Professor, Biomedical Engineering
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Assistant Professor, Macromolecular Science and Engineering
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Investigator, Biointerfaces Institute
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Assistant Director, MCIRCC
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Leslie and Abigail Wexner Emerging Scholar
Sriram Venneti, MD, PhD
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Julie Reyes Taubman Emerging Scholar
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Assistant Professor, Neuropathology
Dr. Venneti studies how genetic alterations make cancer cells use fuels such as glucose and amino acids, and how that makes certain tumors aggressive.
Scott Visovatti
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Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine
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Thomas G. Ruth Emerging Scholar