AFAR Research Grant Program

Anthony Cammarato, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University: Determining and manipulating age-dependent changes in myocardial stiffness, in vivo
Micah Drummond, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Utah: Inactive older adults: determining the role of system A and L transporters underlying an amplified anabolic response in muscle
Christina E. Hugenschmidt, PhD, Instructor, Wake Forest School of Medicine: Differential relationships between diabetes risk factors and brain structure and function
Sujin Lee, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine: Targeting CD137 to enhance RSV peptide vaccine efficacy in aged mice
Ai-Ling Lin, PhD, Instructor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio: Multimodal Neuroimaging Biomarkers of Caloric Restriction Protective Effects in Aging Mice
Gloria Salazar, PhD, Assistant Professor, Emory University: Zinc Homeostasis Dysfunction in Vascular Aging
Chang Su, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, University of North Texas Health Science Center: ERK5/KLF4 Signaling and Glia-Neuron Interaction
Hoonkyo Suh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Cleveland Clinic: Determining neurogenesis-induced neural circuits in the aged mice
Yiqiang Zhang, PhD, Assistant Professor/Research, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio: The role of mTOR in the development of cardiac hypertrophy during aging

AFAR Florida Research Grant

Shinichi Someya, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Florida: Mitochondrial isocitrate dehydrogenase and age-related hearing loss

New Investigator Awards in Alzheimer's Disease

Daniel Kaganovich, PhD, Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: The cell biology of protein aggregation in a C. elegans Alzheimer model
Itamar Kahn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Technion — Israel Institute of Technology: Longitudinal functional characterization of neurodegeneration induced by Cdk5 aberrant activation using optogenetic fMRI
Edward Plowey, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pathology, Stanford University: Regulation of dendrite dynamics and amyloidogeneic APP processing by beclin 1
Xinglong Wang, PhD, Instructor of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine: PGC-1alpha as a neuron protector in Alzheimer’s disease

Julie Martin Mid-Career Awards in Aging Research

Rajendra Apte, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine: Role of microRNA 146b in regulating macrophage senescence
Abbe N. de Vallejo, PhD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, UPMC: Thymic preservation and immune function

Glenn/AFAR Breakthroughs in Gerontology (BIG) Grantees

James Kirkland, MD, PhD, Noaber Foundation Professor of Aging Research, Mayo Clinic: INK-ER-Cre mice: a novel tool for uncovering how senescent cells cause age-related dysfunction
Shu-ou Shan, PhD, Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology: A novel protein disaggregase – from molecular mechanisms to novel cures

Beeson Career Development Awards in Aging Research

Pavan K. Auluck, MD, PhD, Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital: Vesicle trafficking defects & mitochondrial dysfunction related to α-syn toxicity
S. Duke Han, PhD, Assistant Professor, Rush University Medical Center: Neural correlates of impaired financial and health-care decision-making in old age
Amy Steves Kelley, MD, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine: Improving care for older adults with serious illness
Geoffrey A. Kerchner, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stanford University: Hippocampal structure and function in cognitive impairment
Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS, Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of California Los Angeles: Health IT decision support to improve medication management safety and quality
Alexander Panda, MD, MPH, Brookdale Leadership in Aging Fellow, Yale University: Age associated defects in localization and trafficking of toll-like receptor 1
Steven J. Prior, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland School of Medicine: Effects of aerobic exercise on EPCs and vascular dysfunction in aging and T2DM
Alexander Smith, MD, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Francisco: Late life disability: epidemiology, symptoms, quality of life

Ellison Medical Foundation/AFAR Postdoctoral Fellows

Ashley M. Fortress, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Wisconsin: Exploring the epigenetic mechanisms behind age-related cognitive impairment following acute 17
Ari Friedland, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University: Engineering gene networks to halt developmental drift and slow aging in C. elegans
Silvia Gravina, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Single-cell analysis of the aging methylome
Kristin Gribble, PhD, Research Associate, Josephine Bay Paul Center for Comparative Molecular Biology and Evolution, Marine Biological Laboratory: A comparative ecological and evolutionary investigation of the molecular mechanisms of lifespan extensions by caloric restriction
Jason Karpac, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Antagonistic pleiotropy of IGF/insulin signaling and the control of metabolic homeostasis
Jonah Lee, PhD, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Kentucky: The role of satellite cells in aged-skeletal muscle maintenance and hypertrophy
Scott Leiser, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington: Investigating the role of the hypoxic pathway in aging in C. elegans
Mark Lucanic, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Buck Institute for Research on Aging: Characterization of novel small molecule modulators of lifespan
Sofiya Milman, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: The genomic basis of increased high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL) in humans with exceptional longevity
Anindita Mukherjee, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Albert Einstein College of Medicine: Functional assessment of Chaperone Mediated Autophagy during aging in Drosophila
Savita Nair, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Institute for Cancer Research: Factors responsible for age-associated impairment in maturation of NK cells leading to decreased resistance to an acute viral disease
Mintie Pu, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University: Epigenetic mechanisms of longevity determination in C. elegans
Rebecca Taylor, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California Berkeley: Characterization of the UPRer as a cell non-autonomous regulator of age-dependent stress resistance and longevity
Lei Wang, PhD, Research Associate, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies: The role of hormone signaling pathways in regulating stem cell behavior, tissue homeostasis, and longevity in Drosophila
Ashley Webb, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University: Identification of age-dependent changes in the gene network regulated by the pro-longevity factor Fox03 in adult neural stem cells
Kelvin Yen, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Southern California: Conserved mitochondrial derived peptides in aging and disease

Hartford Scholars in Geriatric Medicine

Katherine A. Bennett, MD, Acting Instructor, Harborview Medical Center

Andrea I. Berg, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Gwen M. Bernacki, MD, MHSA, Advanced Fellow, Duke University Medical Center

Marian E. Betz, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado Denver

Annette M. Beyea, DO, Clinical Instructor, Third Year Fellow, University of North Carolina

Sonica Bhatia, MD, Geriatrics Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Kevin J. Biese, MD, MAT, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina

Christopher B. Bowling, MD, Instructor/Advanced Fellow, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Lisa L. Boyle, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester

Sara Bradley, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Lynsey E. Brandt, MD, PharmD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Rebecca T. Brown, MD, Clinical Instructor, University of California, San Francisco

Kathryn E. Callahan, MD, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Francisco Cardona-Rivera, MD, Advanced Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Anna Chodos, MD, Clinical Fellow in Geriatric Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Jessica Colburn, MD, Instructor, Johns Hopkins University

Timothy M. Corbett, MD, Research Fellow, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Amy M. Corcoran, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Julio C. DeFillo, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics), Brown University

Ian M. Deutchki, MD, Senior Instructor, University of Rochester

Kumar Dharmarajan, MD, MBA, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation

Breno Diniz, MD, PhD, Advanced Research Fellow, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic

Kimberly A. Dodd, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Internal Medicine (Geriatrics), Brown University

Nadine Dubowitz, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Emory University

Rina Eisenstein, MD, Instructor, Emory University

Brian M. Eiss, MD, Geriatrics Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Justin O. Endo, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin

Gary Epstein-Lubow, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Butler Hospital

Kristine M. Erlandson, MD, Instructor in Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine, University of Colorado Denver

Emily Finkelstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Denise R. Flinn, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Lynn Flint, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Jesse Foote, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Constance H. Fung, MD, MSHS, Advanced Geriatric Medicine Fellow, GRECC,

Gelareh Z. Gabayan, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Laura P. Gelfman, MD, Associate Instructor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Liza I. Genao, MD, Postdoctoral Scholar, Duke University

Maria Kristina Gestuvo, MD, MHA, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Suzanne M. Gillespie, MD, RD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Rochester

Robert Gorney, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry Clinical Fellow, University of California, San Diego

Marianthe Grammas, MD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

Anne Halli-Tierney, MD, Asssitant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Angela J. Hanson, MD, MS, Senior Fellow, VA Puget Soung Health Care System

Teresita M. Hogan, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Shahla M. Hosseini, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh

Megan Huisingh-Scheetz, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Alana Iglewicz, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry Postsdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego

Tochukwu C. Iloabuchi, MD, Junior Faculty Member, Indiana University

Michiko Inaba, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii

Adriana Izquierdo, MD, Clinical Instructor of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles

Todd C. James, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University

Carlos Jaramillo, MD, PhD, Advanced Fellow, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Lee A. Jennings, MD, Second Year Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles

Trevor A. Jolly, MB, Fellow, Geriatric Medicine and Medical Oncology, University of North Carolina

Anna J. Jovanovich, MD, Nephrology Fellow, University of Colorado Denver

Marianna Karounos, DO, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Amy S. Kelley, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Laurel Kilpatrick, MD, Instructor/Fellow, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ilona M. Kopits, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center

Tia Kostas, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Daniel B. Kramer, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Hebrew SeniorLife

Neda Laiteerapong, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Jordan E. Lake, MD, Assistant Professor, UCLA Center for Clinical AIDS Research and Education (CARE)

Michael A. LaMantia, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University

Richard H. Lee, MD, Instructor, Duke University Medical Center

Won M. Lee, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Medical Center

Betty B. Lim, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Seema Limaye, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Evgenia Litrivis, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatrics,Palliative Medicine, and Hospital Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dandan Liu, MD, Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco

Serena Lo, MD, Advanced Fellow in Geriatrics, VA Puget Sound Health Care System

Alexander S. Lo, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Karen T. Lubimir, MD, DMD, Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii

Helen Lum, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Ronald J. Maggiore, MD, Geriatric Oncology Advanced Fellow, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Anita B. Major, MD, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Erika R. Manu, MD, Third Year Fellow, University of Michigan

Jack M. McBride, MD, MBA, Second Year Geriatric Fellow, University of North Carolina

Robert P. McNeil, MD, Instructor, Johns Hopkins University

Sonal S. Mehta, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Rachel K. Miller, MD, Clinical Instructor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Lillian Min, MD, MSHS, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Andrew A. Monte, MD, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology, University of Colorado Denver

Kendall Moseley, MD, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Nadia Mujahid, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brown University

Arif Nazir, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Indiana University

Ugochi K. Ohuabunwa, MBBS, Assistant Professor, Emory University

Lauren Okamoto, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii

Karin-Elizabeth Ouchida, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Carla M. Perissinotto, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Timothy Platts-Mills, MD, Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina

Erika Ramsdale, MD, Geriatric Oncology Fellow, University of Chicago School of Medicine

Jennifer M. Reckrey, MD, Assistant Professor, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Josette Rivera, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Veronica Rivera, MD, Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco

Jeffrey Sanders, PhD, MD, Geriatric Psychiatry Postsdoctoral Scholar, University of California, San Diego

Elizabeth J. Santos, M.D, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Rochester

Brijen J. Shah, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Armin Shahrokni, MD, MPH, Third Year Geriatric Oncology Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles

Kendra D. Sheppard, ND, MSPH, Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Gabriel Solomon, MD, Clnical Assistant Professor, University of Michigan

Cody Takenaka, MD, Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Hawaii

Kristen L. Thornton, MD, Senior Instructor of Medicine and Familiy Medicine, University of Rochester

Shachi Tyagi, MD, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pittsburgh

Kathleen T. Unroe, MD, MHA, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Indiana University

Deborah Villareal, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Wei Wang, MD, Geriatrics Fellow, Weill Medical College of Cornell

Franklin S. Watkins, MD, Assistant Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Ilse Wiechers, MD, MPP, Instructor and Advanced Fellow, Yale University

Julie A. Williams, MD, Instructor/Assistant Professor, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Valerie K. Wilson, MD, Instructor in Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Lindsay A. Wilson, MD, Clinical Instructor, Advanced Fellow, University of North Carolina

Yanping Ye, MD, Assistant Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio

Linwah Yip, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery and Surgical Oncology, University of Pittsburgh

Jacqueline Yuen, MD, Clinical Fellow in Geriatrics, University of California, San Francisco

Rebakah Zechariah, MD, Geriatric Medicine Fellow, University of Wisconsin

Ryan M. Zitnay, MD, Second Year Fellow, Boston University Medical Center

Medical Student Training in Aging Research Program

Whitley Aamodt, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Sanjay Aneja, Yale School of Medicine

Jerome Atputhasingam, University of California, San Francisco

Ranjith Babu, Duke University School of Medicine

Jeffrey Beckett, Saint Louis University

Amanda Berbert, University of Utah

Michael Bergin, Saint Louis University

Derek Berglund, Saint Louis University

Kerry Bertke, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Sonia Bhandari, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

Kelley Bohm, Weill Cornell Medical College

Priya Borker, Case Western Reserve University

Olga Borodulin, Ohio State University College of Medicine

John Bridges, University of Mississippi

Michael Cao, Western University of Health Sciences

Paul Cavallaro, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Brian Champagne, University of California, San Diego

Ryan Chauncey, University of Connecticut

ChaCha Chen, University of Alabama School of Medicine

Rachel Chen, University of Chicago

Jessamyn Conell-Price, University of California San Francisco

Scott Connors, Weill Cornell Medical College

Lydia Cortes Betancourt, University of Puerto Rico

Anna Darby, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Mary Derasmo, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Erik Ding, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Jhanina Dioso, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Nerissa Duchin, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Nydia Ekasumara, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Sameen Farooq, Wayne State University

Rebecca Fega, University of Arizona

Rachel Feldman, Weill Cornell Medical College

Charlene Fernandez-Camacho, University of Puerto Rico

Daphna Finn, University of California, San Diego

John Fritch, University of Cincinnati

Ashley Gerdeman, Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine

Rebecca Gersten, Virginia Commonwealth University

Luwam Ghidei, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

Daniel Gragert, Pacific Northwest University

Ravi Grandhi, University of Cincinnati

Tanya Greywal, University of California, San Diego

Konstantin Grigoryan, University of Cincinnati

Murray Grissom, University of California, San Diego

Kimberly Hall, University of Hawaii

Heather Hassett, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

James Heaberlin, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Isabel Hujoel, University of Hawaii

Ali Jamil, New York University

Megan Janes, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Deborah Jiang, University of Cincinnati

Jennifer Katzenberg, University of Arizona

Brian Kauh, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Chitra Kavouspour, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

Esther Kelley, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Samuel Kim, University of Cincinnati

Naveen Krishnan, University of Michigan

Lalitha Kunduru, University of North Carolina

Betty La, University of Texas Medical Branch

Mychael Lagbas, University of Hawaii

Helen Lam, University of California Los Angeles

Christopher Latz, Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine

David Lee, University of California Irvine

Deborah Lee, Brown University

Jason Lent, Western University of Health Sciences

Yehuda Lerea, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Vania Leung, University of Illinois at Chicago

Jennifer Li, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Grace Liao, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Christina Lin, Medical College of Wisconsin

Jia Lin, University of Colorado Denver

Victor Lin, University of North Texas Health Science Center

Ashley Liou, University of North Texas Health Science Center

Andrew Liu, Rosalind Franklin University

Shawn Loder, University of Michigan

Tina Lu, University of California, San Diego

Yvonne Lum, University of Hawaii

Rohit Majumdar, University of California, San Diego

Seema Malkana, UMDHJ-SOM School of Osteopathic Medicine

Brett Marinelli, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Kristin Masukawa, University of California Los Angeles

Kori Matsuura, University of Hawaii

Sean Matsuwaka, University of Hawaii

Kahli McDonald, Duke University School of Medicine

Bianca Methvin, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Omar Meziab, University of Arizona

Meredith Mirrer, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Meenal Misal, University of Arizona

Kathryn Moore, University of North Carolina

Sara Neill, University of Michigan

Michelle Nguyen, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Melissa Nuntapreda, University of Utah

Hannah Oakland, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Shannon O'Brien, Stony Brook University

Susanna O'Kula, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Luei Ong, University of Iowa

Mollie Oudenhoven, University of North Carolina

Anokha Padubidri, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Chetna Pande, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Isela Pardo, University of California San Francisco

Samantha Parker, Tulane University School of Medicine

Krupa Patel, Boston University

Anish Kumar Pattisapu, Northeast Ohio Medical University

Elizabeth Pedowitz, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Elizabeth Phung, NOVA Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Ming Yi (Ann) Qiu, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Sujing (Sylvia) Qiu, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Vidya Raghavan, Wayne State University

David Reeder, University of Arizona

Aldrich Alden Ricalde, University of Hawaii

Alison Rittenberg, University of North Carolina

Courtney Schroeder, University of Nebraska

Matthew Seigerman, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Syed Shabbir, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Shayna Shackford, University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine

Alexander Sherman, University of Cincinnati

Benjamin Sherman, Western University of Health Sciences

Hang (Helen) Shi, University of Michigan

Junzi Shi, University of Cincinnati

Jennifer Shierlock, University of South Carolina

Ammar Siddiqui, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Carolyn Smith-Lin, Boston University

David Spelber, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Christopher Su, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Sunitha Suresh, John Hopkins University

Sarah Synovec-Crawford, University of Nebraska

Alex Taborek, University of California San Diego

Katherine Terracina, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

Julia Thomas, Wake Forest School of Medicine

Ronald Tisdale, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Evan Tschirhart, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Ann-Marcia Tukpah, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Benjamin Vaughan, University of Massachusetts Medical School

Rohan Verma, University of California, San Diego

Daniel Vu, Weill Cornell Medical College

Kelly Wagner, University of Colorado Denver

Dustin Wailes, University of California, San Diego

Marianne Wallis, Loyola University Chicago

Aimi Watanabe, University of Hawaii

An-Kwok (Ian) Wong, Case Western Reserve University

Anne Wright, University of Hawaii

Derek Wu, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Michael Yee, University of Chicago

Tresa Zacharias, University of Texas Southwestern

Darab Zarrabi, Ohio State University College of Medicine

Howard Zee, University of Hawaii

Jessica Zhang, Ohio State University College of Medicine