Here we provide a growing list of Black faculty in STEM. Please nominate yourself or your colleagues through the nomination page! The site can be used to find colleagues to (i) connect with personally, (ii) collaborate with scientifically, (iii) point your students to as role models, (iv) invite to speak at conferences, symposia, workshops, and colloquia, (v) cite in your papers, and (vi) include in your syllabi. ​

Name	Institution	Field(s)	Research	Randomizer
Andre Fenton	New York University	neuroscience; psychology;	Studies how brains store experiences as memories, and how the expression of knowledge activates information that is relevant without activating what is irrelevant.	353
Catherine Hartley	New York University	neuroscience; psychology;	Studies the diverse learning and decision-making processes that support adaptive motivated behavior.	271
Kafui Dzirasa	Duke University	neuroscience; bioengineering; psychiatry	Studies how neuropsychiatric risk genes interact with environmental stress to modify neural circuits that underlie normal emotional and cognitive function.	188
Ishmail Abdus-Saboor	University of Pennsylvania	biology; neuroscience;	Studies sensory system perception – from the level of the gene to the level of organismal behavior.	283
Damien Fair, PA-C, PhD	University of Minnesota	neuroscience; brain development;	Dr. Damien Fair researches developmental cognition and neuroscience using MRI technology. Much of his research relates to ADHD and Autism Spectrum disorder.	137
Sean L. Simpson	Wake Forest School of Medicine	biostatistics;	Dr. Simpson's main research focus is on fusing statistical tools with network science methods for the analysis of whole-brain network data.	43
Qawi Telesford	Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research	neuroscience;	Conducts research on simultaneous EEG-fMRI, complex network analysis, and the application of these methods to humans and nonhuman primates.	204
Todd Coleman	University of California, San Diego	electrical engineering; neuroscience;	Develops flexible multi-functional flexible electronics and scalable inference tools to provide vulnerability profiles and decision support tools for improved interpretation of health and promotion of decision-making.	58
Roy Hamilton	University of Pennsylvania	neurology; neuroscience;	Studies brain stimulation, and has employed TMS and tDCS in a range of studies exploring a range of topics, including but not limited to cognitive control, visuospatial processing, language production, semantic memory, and creativity.	225
Kwabena Boahen	Stanford University	electrical engineering; neuroscience;	Uses silicon integrated circuits to emulate the way neurons compute, linking the seemingly disparate fields of electronics and computer science with neurobiology and medicine.	166
Folami Ideraabdullah	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	genetics;	Studies mechanisms of environmental modulation of the epigenome during development.	238
Heather Pinkett	Northwestern University	biostatistics;	The Pinkett Lab is interested in how nutrients, antibiotics and chemotherapeutics are transported into or out of the cell.	261
Denise Okafor	Pennsylvania State University	biochemistry;	She used molecular dynamics simulations to investigate the mechanisms underlying ligand activation in nuclear receptors.	97
Richard W. Prather	University of Maryland, College Park	psychology; neuroscience; education	Educational neuroscience, mathematical models, developmental cognitive neuroscience, numerical cognition	230
Stephen J. Wilson	Pennsylvania State University	neuroscience;	Research focuses on addiction and other types of behavior that have an impact on health, combining theories and methods from the fields of psychology and neuroscience.	72
Jordan Booker	University of Missouri	psychology;	focuses broadly on aspects of emotional competence, identity development, and personal character as they relate to well-being and resilience from late childhood to emerging adulthood.	125
Laura Dassama	Stanford University	chemistry; biology;	She performs research directed at understanding and mitigating bacterial multidrug resistance.	139
Namandje N. Bumpus	Johns Hopkins University	pharmacology;	Her research seeks to define the role of drug metabolism in antiretroviral drug outcomes.	9
Donita C. Brady	University of Pennsylvania	biology; pharmacology; chemistry	The research interests of our laboratory lie at the intersection of cancer biology, signal transduction, and metal homeostasis.	182
Michael D. L. Johnson	University of Arizona	immunology; biochemistry;	Seeks to understand how bacteria interact with metals during infections, so as to inform the identification of novel therapeutic strategies against bacterial infections.	222
Rhonda Dzakpasu	Georgetown University	pharmacology; physics; physiology	She uses in vitro electrophysiology techniques to characterize neural networks and their response to pharmacological agents and atypical genetics.	71
Erich Jarvis	Rockefeller University	neuroscience; biology; genetics	Dr. Erich D. Jarvis is an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and tenured professor heading the new Laboratory of Neurogenetics of Language. Dr. Jarvis investigates vocal learning in songbirds and other animals as a model for understanding spoken language in humans. He integrates computational, behavioral, physiological, and molecular techniques to explore the neural genetics of vocal learning and the evolution of this complex behavior.	247
Rotonya Carr	University of Pennsylvania	biology; lipid biology; hepatology	The Carr Lab aims to understand how dysregulation of hepatic metabolism promotes liver disease. Our current projects involve investigating the role of lipid metabolites and lipid droplet proteins in impairing hepatic insulin signaling, a key event in the earliest stage of several metabolic liver diseases.	18
Yava Jones-Hall	Texas A&M University	biology; veterinary science;	My primary interest is to advance research by providing assessments of disease by traditional light microscopy and digital pathology.	127
Craig E. Cameron	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	microbiology; immunology;	His research considers RNA virus infections.	310
Gustavo M. Silva	Duke University	biology;	The Silva lab investigates molecular and systems mechanisms by which cells use ubiquitin-mediated processes to control protein synthesis and degradation further supporting cellular resistance to stresses.	155
Neil Hanchard	Baylor College of Medicine	biology; genetics;	Uses genomics to better understand complex pediatric disease traits; particularly interested in global health diseases.	267
Marcus Lambert	Weill Cornell Medicine	biology; education;	His research efforts focus on educational and health equity interventions that improve access, equity and diversity in science and medicine.	168
Yohannes Abate	University of Georgia	physics; optics;	His lab is interested in exploration of fundamental nanoscale physical phenomena and interactions in nano- and quantum- materials using terahertz, infrared, and optical spectroscopy and imaging techniques with diffraction unlimited spatial resolution	150
Debra Auguste	Northeastern University	bioengineering;	Bioresponsive drug delivery; cell and tissue engineering; tissue architecture; targeted therapeutics	211
Jacquin C. Niles	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	bioengineering;	The goal of the Niles lab is to establish, through technological innovations, new avenues to discovering fundamental malaria parasite biology that can be translated into much-needed diagnostic, preventative and therapeutic solutions.	106
Ukpong Eyo	University of Virginia	neuroscience;	Eyo is interested in real-time imaging of microglia during development. He has worked on the migratory capacities for neonatal microglia, purinergic mechanisms in microglial demise under simulated ischemic conditions, microglial-neuronal communications, physical interaction phenomena between microglia and neurons, glutamate-dependent NMDA receptor signaling that subsequently elicited purine release to activate microglial P2Y12 receptors, and experimentally-induced seizures.	297
Edjah Nduom	National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH	biology;	His research focuses on harnessing the power of the immune system to fight brain tumors.	87
Zayd M. Khaliq	National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH	neuroscience; biology; physiology	His lab studies how voltage gated ion channels contribute to excitability and action potential firing of dopamine neurons and other neurons that participate in reward circuits, how synaptic inputs interact with intrinsic membrane conductances to produce spiking patterns that are relevant to reward based learning, and how neuromodulatory inputs influence excitability of these neurons.	208
Courtney Fitzhugh	National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH	biology;	Her lab focuses on novel HSC transplantation methods for sickle cell disease.	202
Alyce S. Adams	Kaiser Permanente	health policy;	Dr. Adams' work has focused on the determinants of suboptimal use of potentially beneficial health care services among disparities populations	110
Rachel R. Hardeman	University of Minnesota	health policy; race;	Dr. Hardeman's work aims to dismantle structural racism in the health care system	399
Rebecca A. Hubbard	University of Pennsylvania	biostatistics; health policy;	Dr. Hubbard’s research focuses on the development and application of methods to improve analyses using real world data sources including electronic health records (EHR) and claims data	116
Erica T. Warner	Harvard Medical School	epidemiology; medicine;	Her research studies how lifestyle, behavioral, and genetic factors affect cancer screening, and intermediate markers of cancer risk, cancer risk and survival, with an interest in molecular subtypes and racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities	160
Alisa J. Stephens-Shields	University of Pennsylvania	biostatistics; statistics;	Dr. Stephens-Shield's research focuses on flexible and efficient analysis of data from cluster-randomized trials, causal inference methods for time-varying exposures, and the development of patient reported outcomes.	348
Felicity T. Enders	Mayo Clinic	biostatistics;	Dr. Felicity T. Enders, PhD, MPH, is Professor of Biostatistics at Mayo Clinic where she studies statistics education and systemic interventions to improve diversity and inclusion.	19
Abdul-Aziz Yakubu	Howard University	mathematics;	Dr. Yakubu's research interests are in mathematical applications to the biological sciences with global applications that include the prevention and control of the spread of infectious diseases, and the sustainability of exploited fisheries	197
Lorin Crawford	Brown University	biostatistics; computational biology;	Dr. Crawford's research interests involve the development of novel and efficient computational methodologies to address complex problems in statistical genetics, cancer pharmacology, and radiomics (e.g. cancer imaging)	394
Christopher C. Jett	University of West Georgia	mathematics; education;	Dr. Jett studies mathematics education, critical race theory, and culturally relevant teaching	364
Erica J. Graham	Bryn Mawr College	mathematics;	Dr. Graham's work focuses on applied mathematics, mathematical biology, and mathematical physiology.	234
Raegan Higgins	Texas Tech University	mathematics;	Dr. Higgins' research focuses on oscillation criteria for certain linear and nonlinear second order dynamic equations	41
Candice R. Price	Smith College	mathematics;	Dr. Price works primarily in DNA Topology but has active research in various areas of mathematical modeling	336
Mohamed Omar	Harvey Mudd College	mathematics;	Dr. Omar is interested in seeing algebra come alive in discrete mathematics, primarily in combinatorics, graph theory and discrete/convex geometry; he is also interested in enumerative and geometric combinatorics.	75
Talithia Williams	Harvey Mudd College	mathematics; statistics;	Dr. Williams works focuses on developing statistical models which emphasize the spatial and temporal structure of data; her statistical interests include nonstationary covariance estimation and change-of-support problem	11
Kimberly S. Weems	North Carolina Central University	mathematics; statistics;	Dr. Weems' research interests include statistical models for count data that exhibit data dispersion	386
Nii Addy	Yale University	psychiatry; biology;	Dr. Addy's research investigates the neurobiological bases of substance abuse, depression and anxiety; he also studies the ability of tobacco product flavor additives to alter nicotine use behavior and addiction	169
Letisha R. Wyatt	Oregon Health and Science University	neurology; neuroscience;	Dr. Wyatt's research focuses on mechanisms for regulation of the brain's response to drugs.	305
Sherilynn Black	Duke University	medicine; social neuroscience;	Dr. Black conducts social neuroscience research on the effectiveness of interventions designed to promote diversity in academia.	295
Michael D. Burton	University of Texas at Dallas	neuroscience; systems neuroscience;	Dr. Burton's research focuses on how the immune system modulates peripheral sensory neurons to regulate pain and energy homeostasis	253
Taraz Lee	University of Michigan	psychology; neuroscience;	Dr. Lee's work focuses on the neural mechanisms that support cognitive control and how they interact with motivation, learning, and skilled action	318
Gerald Griffin	Hope College	neuroscience; virology;	Dr. Griffin centers his research on understanding how the viruses interact with the nervous system to modulate behavior.	321
Gerald Downes	University of Massachusetts Amherst	neuroscience;	Dr. Downes' research investigates how the brainstem, spinal cord, and axial muscles develop and function to produce locomotor behavior; he has also recently become interested in using the zebrafish system to provide new insight and therapeutics for epilepsy	398
Osceola Whitney	City College of New York	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Whitney's research focuses on how the cells of a songbird neural system function on a molecular level so that a behaviorally complex trait can be learned and maintained	120
Michael Campbell	Howard University	biology; genetics;	Dr. Campbell's research focuses on understanding the interplay between genomics, evolution, and the development of complex traits, including disease susceptibility, in diverse human populations.	131
Paula Hammond	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	chemical engineering; chemistry; engineering	The Hammond Research Group at the MIT Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research focuses on the self-assembly of polymeric nanomaterials, with a major emphasis on the use of electrostatics and other complementary interactions to generate multifunctional materials with highly controlled architecture. The uniting theme of the lab – the understanding and use of secondary interactions to guide materials assembly at surfaces and in solution.	183
Paul Turner	Yale University	genetics; molecular biology;	The main focus of the Turner lab group is to study evolutionary genetics and genomics of microbes, especially the ability of viruses to adapt (or not) to changes in their biotic and abiotic environments. These studies concern environmental challenges faced by viruses at all levels of biological organization, including effects of changes in molecules, proteins, cells, populations, communities and ecosystems.	154
Caleb Kemere	Rice University	electrical engineering; computer engineering; bioengineering	The Kemere lab designs systems to interact with complex neural circuits in vivo in behaving rodents. These systems enable us to explore how information is processed, stored, and retrieved in both healthy brains and in models of human neurological diseases and disorders. The experimental neurobiological topics we focus most on are understanding memory and the mechanisms of deep brain stimulation. Additionally, the lab develops pure neural interface technology and software for data analysis and experiments.	96
Rajshree Hillstrom	New York University	biomedical engineering;	Computational simulations of the healthy, diseased and reconstructed tissues; Biomechanics; Orthopedics; Osteoarthritis	311
Karine Fenelon	University of Massachusetts at Amherst	neuroscience; biology;	The research program of the Fenelon lab focuses on better understanding the neural elements and circuits underlying sensory information filtering. We are particularly interested in how the caudal pontine reticular nucleus (PnC), brainstem structure at the core of the filtering circuitry, is activated. To do so, we use anatomical, immunohistochemical, electrophysiological, genetic, and behavioral techniques/approaches in rodents, including disease models. Our overall goal is to provide a better understanding of the physiological dysfunction in patients suffering from sensory information filtering and identify potential targets for therapeutic interventions.	226
George Langford	Syracuse University	neuroscience; biology;	Research in the Langford lab is focused primarily on the cell and molecular biology of the actin cytoskeleton in health and disease. We study the function of the actin cytoskeleton in organelle/vesicle transport in axons of nerve cells, and cell migration of human epithelial cells.	63
Derek Applewhite	Reed College	biology; molecular biology; cellular biology	The central goal of the Applewhite lab is to understand the regulation of the cytoskeleton. The key questions we ask include: How does class of molecules known as actin-microtubule cross-linkers function in regulating the cytoskeleton? How is actomyosin contractility regulated during interphase? How can we test current models of cytoskeletal regulation in developing Drosophila embryos?	218
Ayotunde Dokun	University of Iowa	endocrinology; metabolism;	The Dokun lab has three main research thrusts: (1) mechanism of the limb salvage qtl-1 (LSq-1) locus of outcomes in experimental peripheral arterial disease (PAD), (2) Gene and metabolic environment interaction in severity of PAD, and (3) targeting miRNAs to improve PAD outcomes in Diabetes.	178
Stanley Andrisse	Howard University	endocrinology; metabolism;	The Andrisse lab investigates the intersecting pathways of different insulin resistant states. Dysregulated hepatic glucose metabolism plays a pivotal role in the pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance. The pathways that regulate hepatic gluconeogenesis, glycogen synthesis, and glycogenolysis are complex. Increasing evidence from my work and others has revealed many intersecting pathways that influence the traditional PI3K/AKT insulin action pathway. Discovering these mechanistic interactions, using cutting-edge molecular technologies is the focus of my work. I will employ the use of animal models, cell culture models and clinical collaborations.	26
Michelle Gray	University of Alabama at Birmingham	neurology; molecular biology;	The overall mission of the Gray lab is to identify and understand the underlying mechanisms that contribute to cellular dysfunction and neurodegeneration in Huntington’s Disease and X-linked Dystonia Parkinsonism.	144
Ibrahim Cissé	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	physics; biophysics; molecular biology	The Cisse lab leverages expertise in Single Molecule and Super-Resolution imaging in live cells to study collective behaviors (e.g. protein clustering) emerging from weak or transient biomolecular interactions in mammalian cells. We unveil, often for the first time, that these clusters exist in living cells, and we expand both on the imaging approaches and the cellular and molecular biology techniques to discover the biophysical mechanisms of action, and their function in vivo.	221
Dionna Williams	Johns Hopkins University	molecular biology; comparative pathobiology;	The goal of the Williams Lab is to identify the cellular and molecular mechanisms by which HIV, drugs of abuse, and the antiretroviral therapies (ART) used to treat the virus synergize to promote damage to the central nervous system (CNS).	89
William Clemons	California Institute of Technology	biochemistry; cellular biology;	The primary goal of the Clemons team is to train a dynamic, diverse, and talented group of scientists interested in structural biology and membrane proteins. We are fundamentally biochemists who want to know how the cell works at the atomic level.	240
Ketema Paul	University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA	molecular biology; cellular biology; genetics	The Paul lab conducts a forward genetics approach to facilitate gene identification that takes advantage of natural variation occurring in sleep-replete and sleep-deprived mice. This approach applies the most cutting edge genome mapping, positional cloning, and DNA sequencing techniques to identifying the genetic origins of unique sleep phenotypes in transgenic mouse models. These studies are expected to identify novel sleep regulatory genes and lead to the development of new therapeutic targets and improved treatments for sleep disorders.	82
Stephon Alexander	Brown University	physcis; cosmology;	Its is the goal of the Alexander research group to find the completion of the standard model and general relativity keeping these issues, both theoretically and observationally in mind. Our group addresses these problems with a diverse arsenal of theoretical, computational (i.e. machine learning) and conceptual tools.	307
Joseph W. Freeman	Rutgers University	biomedical engineering;	The Musculoskeletal Tissue Regeneration (MoTR) Laboratory primarily focuses on the repair and regeneration of tissue, mainly musculoskeletal tissue, through the use of tissue engineering techniques. We also investigate mechanisms of tissue damage and healing, cancer development, and molecular modeling of structural proteins..	239
Ronke Olabisi	University of California, Irvine	biomedical engineering;	The research in The Olabisi Lab involves tissue engineering and regenerative medicine to repair or build de novo tissues for treating defects due to injury, disease, aging, or spaceflight. Our approach is through the development of biosynthetic materials, which combine the best aspects of synthetic and biological materials to attain reproducible biomaterials that can drive or direct cell function. Current efforts focus on skin, neural, musculoskeletal, and retinal tissues.	95
Sonya Neal	University of California, San Diego	biology;	The central goal of my new laboratory’s work is understanding how rhomboids participate in ER function, retrotranslocation, and the stress pathways that result from their absence.	298
Roland A. Owens	National Institutes of Health, NIH	studied medicine, now a provost;	His primary duty as an Assistant Director is to facilitate and enhance principal investigator recruitments within the Intramural Research Program. As a logical offshoot of this primary duty, he is the principal OIR senior staff member responsible for promoting diversity and inclusion in the biomedical research workforce, as well as promoting mentorship at the NIH. He also coordinates an annual course for new tenure-track PIs, titled “How to Succeed as a PI at the NIH – Leadership & Management Skills.” Previously, Roland’s research focused on adeno-associated virus type-2 (AAV2).	112
Jean Lud Cadet	National Institutes of Health, NIH	molecular neuropsychiatry;	Research in our section focuses on studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of psychostimulant addiction and toxicity. Dr. Cadet’s group has provided recent evidence that methamphetamine (METH) self-administration is accompanied with markers of toxicity in striatal dopaminergic systems. These results are consistent with the idea that catecholamines, especially, dopamine can activate neurodegenerative processes in the mammalian brain. We have also shown recently that METH preconditioning protects against METH toxicity. This occurs by upregulation of neurotrophic factors such as BDNF and/or downregulation of glutamatergic systems. Preliminary studies have shown that these changes are secondary to epigenetic modifications that include histone hypoacetylation and DNA methylation. The laboratory is thus pursuing investigations to further identify epigenetic markers that are involved in METH self-administration and METH preconditioning.	180
Hannah Valantine	National Institutes of Health, NIH	transplant genomics; cardiology;	Dr. Hannah Valantine, who leads the Laboratory of Transplantation Genomics, has studied the causes of heart-transplant rejection since the beginning of her clinical medicine career. Her research has led to fundamental discoveries about why heart transplants fail, including the pathogenesis of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV).	361
Juanita L. Merchant	The University of Arizona	gastroenterology; medicine; cancer biology	Sonic Hedgehog and Gastric Cancer: Studies from my lab focus on the role of bacterial colonization and the development of type B chronic atrophic gastritis in a mouse model. Regulation of GI Growth and Homeostasis by ZBP-89: We are also actively investigating the role of a zinc finger transcription factor in the regulation of cell growth. Mechanism of Gastrinoma Development: We have developed a mouse model of gastrinoma by crossing the villin-Cre mouse to the floxed menin mouse.	44
Cimona V. Hinton	Clark Atlanta University	biochemistry;	Dr. Hinton's laboratory focuses on mechanisms responsible for cancer cell metastasis at both the cellular and molecular levels. In this regard, we currently study the involvement of chemokine pathways that induce motility of cancer cells. The primary objective is to study how the CXCR4/CXCL12 signaling axis may aid in the migration and invasion of foreign tissues under cancerous condition. This system is studied in prostate and breast cancer cells.	290
Lakeisha Williams	University of Florida	biomedical engineering;	The focus of The Tissue Mechanics, Microstructure, and Modeling Laboratory (TM3) is to use modern imaging techniques, advanced mechanical characterization tools, and computational visualization/modeling techniques to unveil structural and functional relations of tissues at various hierarchical length scales.	171
Zakaria Al Balushi	University of California Berkeley	materials science and engineering;	The Al Balushi Research Group focuses on electronic materials synthesis of compound semiconductor thin films and nanostructures using chemical vapor deposition. In particular, our group is interested in creating novel scalable crystal growth and integration schemes of emerging materials for logic, optoelectronic and power devices.	108
Alissa Richmond Armstrong	University of Southern Carolina	biology;	The Armstrong laboratory's overarching goal is to understand how communication with adipocytes coordinates the response of adult stem cell populations and their differentiating daughters to changes in an organism’s nutritional input.	215
Jelani Nelson	University of California Berkeley	electrical engineering and computer science; theory;	Jelani Osei Nelson is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He won the 2014 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. Nelson is the creator of AddisCoder, a computer science summer program for Ethiopian high school students in Addis Ababa.	86
Devyn Gillette	Bowie State University	immunology;	My research goal is to elucidate how the host intracellular signaling molecules within airway epithelial cells contribute to inflammatory responses during challenge with bacteria/bacterial products.	31
Renetta Garrison Tull	University of California, Davis	vice chancellor for diversity, equity, and inclusion;	Dr. Garrison Tull is the Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at UC Davis.	346
Keisha Findley	Food and Drug Administration	microbiology;	Microbiologist reviewer on a multidisciplinary scientific/clinical review team that evaluates, and makes decisions on the approvability of scientific submissions/ applications for over-the-counter drugs that require FDA approval.	135
Rayne Helen Rouce	Baylor College of Medicine	pediatrics; hematology/oncology; cell and gene therapy	Based on my clinical interests in leukemia and lymphoma, specifically how to harness the immune system to recognize and attack tumors, during fellowship I embarked on a laboratory project that identified a previously undescribed mechanism of ALL immune evasion from NK cell surveillance. I have spent the past two years in the translational research laboratories of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy (CAGT) in order to achieve my goal of becoming a clinical investigator conducting immunotherapy trials.	236
Breann Brown	Vanderbilt University	biochemistry;	The Brown Lab is interested in understanding how aberrations in macromolecular protein assembly underlie human diseases. Our primary focus is using structural biology to understand the shape and nature of individual protein components, or “puzzle pieces.”	157
Scott V. Edwards	Harvard University	organismic and evolutionary biology; ornithology; zoology	We study molecular evolution, systematics, phylogeography, comparative genomics and behavioral evolution of birds and (occasionally) non-avian reptiles.	177
Samira Musah	Duke University	biomedical engineering;	The Musah Lab is interested in understanding how molecular signals and biophysical forces can function either synergistically or independently to guide organ development and physiology, and how these processes can be therapeutically harnessed to treat human disease.	52
Jennifer Richeson	Yale University	psychology;	The Social Perception & Communication Laboratory (SPCL) examines the ways in which social group memberships and affiliations, such as race, gender, and socioeconomic status, impact how people think, feel, and behave. In short, we study the psychology of navigating social and cultural diversity.	312
Tamia Harris-Tryon	University of Texas Southwestern	dermatology; immunology;	The Harris-Tryon Laboratory bridges the fields of Immunology, Microbiology, and Metabolism and focuses on the interface between the skin surface and the community of microbes that colonize this niche.	216
Samantha C. Lewis	University of California, Berkeley	molecular and cell biology; mitochondrial biogenesis;	We aim to reveal the cellular mechanisms that ensure mitochondrial DNA integrity and inheritance in metazoans, using quantitative imaging, genetics and systems biology approaches.	201
Renata Pereira Alambert	University of Iowa	internal medicine; endocrinology; metabolism	My current research projects aim to understand the mechanisms for muscle regulation of FGF21 and the role of OPA1 and mitochondrial dynamics in adipose tissue physiology and in the adaptation to caloric excess.	70
Aaron Kyle	Columbia University	bioengineering; engineering education;	Kyle's research focuses one engineering education, particularly the creation of engineering-design centric outreach programs to engender STEM identity in grades 6 - 12 students from underrepresented minority groups.	98
Camillo J. Taylor	University of Pennsylvania	computer science; information science; robotics	Prof. Taylor's research interests focus on computer vision and robotics. His work on problems related to recovering 3-D models from 2-D images has led to commercially deployed techniques for recovering architectural models. CJ has also developed algorithms for recovering the posture of articulated figures, such as humans from photographs and video footage. His current research include work on self-localizing embedded smart camera systems and their applications to problems such as automated surveying systems, ad-hoc surveillance systems, three-dimensional reconstruction and mobile robot localization.	88
Alexis M. Stranahan	Augusta University	neuroscience; cellular biology; anatomy	Dr. Stranahan studies microglial and neurovascular regulation of hippocampal function in metabolic disorders. Her lab's long-term goal is to understand how neurons, glia and cerebrovascular cells sense and respond to homeostatic challenges.	20
Jennifer N. Gutsell	Brandeis University	neuroscience; psychology;	The Gutsell lab focuses on understanding how basic motivations and social biases shape the way we perceive and interact with others. They look at the neural and cognitive processes involved in person perception, interpersonal sensitivity, and self-control using EEG and other physiological measures.	174
Carl Hart	Columbia University	neuroscience; pharmacology;	The Hart lab is interested in investigating the behavioral and neuropharmacological effects of psychoactive drugs in human research participants. A major focus of this laboratory-based research is to understand factors that mediate drug self-administration behavior and to develop effective treatments.	323
Sandra Garraway	Emory	neuroscience; physiology;	The Garraway lab focuses on identifying adaptive versus maladaptive cellular plasticity that influences functional recovery and the development of pain after spinal cord injury.	242
Onarae Rice	Furman University	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Rice employs a battery of behavioral assays and neural imaging techniques to better understand drug addiction and the role of various receptors in this process.	299
Lewis Wheaton	Georgia Tech	neuroscience; cognitive science;	Dr. Wheaton's work focuses on human motor control rehabilitation in aging, stroke and amputation.	60
Corey Harwell	Harvard Medical School	neuroscience; biology;	The Harwell Lab takes a multidisciplinary approach utilizing molecular genetics, molecular biology, and modern circuit mapping techniques to analyze the function of temporally defined subgroups of neurons in the developing brain.	374
Abraham Beyene	Janelia Research Campus	neuroscience; biology; chemistry	Work in Abraham's lab straddles the realms of chemistry and biology. The lab leverages chemical approaches to develop optical tools and technologies and use them to ask and answer important questions within the field of neurobiology.	342
Dominique Pritchett	Howard University	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Pritchett is largely interested in understanding the neural mechanism that underlie simple associative learning behaviors. In particular, he and his laboratory focus on the cerebellum, where much is understood about how mechanisms of synaptic plasticity contribute to the association of a stimulus with a behavioral response.	67
Prosper N'Gouemo	Howard University	neuroscience; physiology;	Dr. N'Gouemo's research foduses on the neurobiology of inherited epilepsy, basic mechanisms of alcohol withdrawal-induced seizures, and the neurobiology of prenatal alcohol exposure-related seizures.	309
Amanda Brown	Johns Hopkins	neuroscience; immunology; biology	Dr. Brown’s research is focused on elucidating the role of key macrophage host cell factors that are critical for HIV replication and neuropathogenesis using cellular, molecular, and genetic approaches.	149
Jennifer Swann	Lehigh University	neuroscience; endocrinology; biology	Dr. Swann's lab uses hormones and sex differences to tease out the secrets of the brain.	372
Clinton Cave	Middlebury College	neuroscience; biology;	Research in the Cave lab focuses on defining the molecular mechanisms regulating progenitor patterning, neurogenesis, gliogenesis, and cell fate decisions.	315
Mario Penzo	NIMH	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Penzo’s lab is currently investigating the neuronal mechanisms underlying the formation and regulation of affective memories.	193
S. Alex Marshall	North Carolina Central University	neuroscience; biomedical sciences;	The Marshall lab is interested in the role of the neuroimmune system in alcohol abuse and alcohol-induced brain damage.	284
Olusola Ajilore	U. Illinois-Chicago	neuroscience; psychiatry;	The CoNECt Lab is an interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians devoted to improving our understanding of brain connectivity using novel techniques from neuroimaging and computational neuroscience. We apply these innovative brain mapping methods to elucidate network-based mechanisms associated with a wide variety of clinical conditions and develop new technology-based treatments to address these mechanisms.	316
Wilsaan Joiner	UC Davis	neuroscience; biology; physiology	Dr. Joiner's laboratory studies how we use different sources of information to aid behavior, ranging from visual perception to movement planning and updating. Specifically, we are interested in how external and internally-generated sensory information is integrated in healthy individuals, in comparison to certain disease and impaired populations (e.g., Schizophrenia and upper extremity amputees).	173
Tiffany Donaldson	University of Massachusetts Boston	neuroscience; pharmacology; psychology	Dr. Donaldson's research is focused on understanding the intersection of biological and environmental factors that create vulnerabilities to drug addiction.	187
Lesley-Ann Giddings	Middlebury College	chemistry;	Dr. Giddings is a natural products biochemist interested in bioprospecting extreme environments for microbial bioactive agents, as well as understanding the enzymology behind the assembly of new pharmacophores.	51
Tendai Gadzikwa	Kansas State University	chemistry;	The primary research focus of the Gadzikwa Lab is supramolecular catalysis, which includes supramolecular chemistry, catalysis, as well as metal-organic framework materials.	54
Thomas Epps	University of Delaware	chemistry;	Dr. Epps' research interests include nanostructured soft materials from biobased feedstocks, nanotemplating of polymer films and coatings, polymeric materials for ion-conduction membranes, polymer composites, and nanostructured assemblies for targeted drug delivery and gene therapy.	30
William Tarpeh	Stanford University	chemistry;	The Tarpeh Lab develops and evaluates novel approaches to resource recovery from waste waters at various synergistic scales.	77
Charles McCrory	University of Michigan	chemistry;	Dr. McCrory's research program uses a combination of surface science and electrochemistry to study the mechanisms and kinetics of electrocatalytic transformations of small molecules for energy storage and environmental remediation.	291
Bart Bartlett	University of Michigan	chemistry;	The Bartlett Group uses inorganic synthesis to prepare compositionally complex materials.	345
Malika Jeffries-EL	Boston University	chemistry;	Dr. Jeffries-EL focuses her research on the development of organic semiconductors – materials that combine the processing properties of polymers with the electronic properties of semiconductors.	392
Nikki Traylor-Knowles	University of Miami	biology; immunology; genomics	Dr. Traylor-Knowles studies the innate immune system in corals, sea anemones and (the non-cnidarian) ctenophores. Her lab investigates disease processes, environmental stress, symbiosis, wound healing, regeneration, and cellular mechanisms of immunity.	347
Yvonne Fondufe-Mittendorf	University of Kentucky	epigenetics; biology;	Dr. Fondufe-Mittendorf's research focuses on understanding how specific chromatin components interrelate and integrate to regulate transcriptional activity and maintain cellular memory.	129
Andrea L. Moore	Savannah State University	stem education; biology;	Dr. Moore has expertise in human-environment interactions, environmental justice, and teaching in higher education. Her research explores the effects of environmental policies on the distribution of water pollution on various ethnic groups	389
Maya Trotz	University of South Florida	environmental engineering; biology; marine science	Dr. Trotz's research looks at water quality, water source protection & water provision for sustainable communities through a lens that focuses on the intersection of infrastructure for education and engineered systems	296
Shannon C. Roberts	University of Massachusetts-Amherst	mechanical engineering; industrial engineering; electrical engineering	Dr. Roberts is focused on studying human factors in transportation safety.	303
Lekelia Jenkins	Arizona State University	biology; marine science;	Dr. Jenkins' research focuses on the process of conservation in order to distill conservation theory and codify best practices, specifically exploring marine conservation, bycatch, conservation technology, tidal energy, invention, technology transfer, and diffusion of innovations.	207
Roger McIntosh	University of Miami	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. McIntosh examines the effects of HIV on the neural networks supporting the regulation of heart rate and blood pressure.	49
Sade Spencer	University of Minnesota	neuroscience; pharmacology;	D. Spencer's research identifies the neural mechanisms that underlie the development of drug addiction and relapse.	268
Seanna Leath	University of Virginia	psychology; neuroscience;	Dr. Leath's research focuses on addressing how race and gender identity beliefs support psychological resilience among Black girls, and exploring the influence of discrimination and stigma on a variety of outcomes among Black girls and women.	248
Franck K. Kalume	University of Washington	neuroscience; pharmacology;	Dr. Kalume's Global Health initiatives are centered on reducing the treatment and education gap of epilepsy in Democratic Republic of Congo through education, advocacy, and research in a partnership with the Universities of Kinshasa and Lubumbashi.	128
James Finley	USC	neuroscience; biomechanics; physiology	Dr. Finley investigates how locomotion is controlled and adapted in both the healthy and injured neuromuscular system.	186
Kelli Duncan	Vassar College	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Duncan examines the role of steroid hormones on repair of the nervous system following traumatic brain injury.	158
Rena A.S. Robinson	Vanderbilt University	neuroscience; chemistry;	Dr. Robinson's research focuses on Alzheimer’s disease and sepsis and how the periphery is involved in these disorders	384
Denise Head	Washington University in St. Louis	neuroscience; radiology; psychology	Dr. Head's research program explores the constellation of age-related brain changes and their relations with cognition	212
Brandy Tiernan	Western Carolina University	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Tiernan examines cognition and emotion, particularly the behavioral and neural bases of disturbances in cognitive control and emotional processing.	233
Roy Sillitoe	Baylor College of Medicine	neuroscience; pathology;	Dr. Sillitoe's research is focused on establishing a wiring diagram for brain circuit map alterations in mouse models of ataxia, dystonia, and tremor.	114
Sabrice Guerrier	Rollins College	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Guerrier researches the ciliate, Tetrahymena thermophila, to study the role of lipid transfer proteins in the regulation of two events during which membrane shape changes drastically: cell-cell fusion and autophagy (cell self-eating).	371
Greg Carr	Lieber Institute for Brain Dev. & John Hopkins	neuroscience;	Dr. Carr studies the environmental and genetic risk factors for neurodevelopmental and psychiatric disorders to find novel therapeutics for these conditions.	359
Jennifer Manly	Columbia University	neuroscience; psychology; neurology	Dr. Manly studies the cultural, medical, and genetic predictors of cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease among African Americans and Hispanics.	279
Ayanna Thomas	Tufts University	psychology;	Dr. Thomas studies the various contexts of episodic memory failure, specifically, the nature of memory fallibility and how age and stress affect this fallibility, and techniques to minimize errors and improve memory accuracy.	73
Shivon Robinson	Williams College	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Robinson studies the neural basis of mood and substance use disorders.	393
Alshakim Nelson	University of Washington	chemistry;	Dr. Nelson and his research group develop new stimuli-responsive materials and bio-hybrid materials for the use in additive manufacturing.	191
Aaron Frank	University of Michigan	chemistry; biology;	Dr. Frank develops and deploys integrative modeling tools to elucidate the structure and dynamics of biologically relevant molecules.	17
Leon Coleman	UNC CH	neuroscience; pharmacology;	Dr. Coleman studies neuroimmune signaling in alcohol use disorders and peripheral immune dysfunction in systemic inflammatory disorders to identify new treatments for alcohol use disorders and peripheral immune pathologies.	109
Autumn Ivy	University of California, Irvine	neuroscience; biology;	The mission of the Ivy Lab is to understand, on a molecular level, the neurodevelopmental implications of exercise during early-life. We use cutting-edge techniques in neuroscience and molecular biology to discover novel genetic and epigenetic mechanisms (mechanisms that regulate how and when genes are expressed, and are influenced by environmental experiences) activated by exercise to influence the development and function of brain regions critical for learning and memory.	376
Michael Taffe	UCSD	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Taffe studies the compulsive use of drugs with a focus on factors involved in the transition from casual to repetitive drug use, as well as on novel therapeutics using the immune system.	325
Ryan Hynd	University of Pennsylvania	mathematics;	Mathematician with a research focus on partial differential equations.	304
Christopher Rose	Brown University	information theory; communication theory; electrical engineering	Any interaction is a communication and communication implies some sort of information exchange, in essence a quantification or even digitization of what is knowable about systems and their elements. So, to any communication theorist trained in the physical sciences, a basic question comes immediately to mind -- what are all these interacting elements saying to one another, how are they saying it and can I listen in?	300
Herb Winful	University of Michigan	electrical engineering;	He has made fundamental contributions to nonlinear fiber optics, nonlinear optics in periodic structures, the nonlinear dynamics of laser arrays, the propagation of single-cycle pulses, and the physics of tunneling.	117
Rediet Abebe	UC Berkeley	computer science;	My research broadly falls in the fields of algorithms and AI, with a focus on equity and justice concerns.	343
Kunle Olukoton	Stanford	computer science;	My current research projects in the Pervasive Parallelism Laboratory focus on domain-specific languages (DSLs) and specialized architectures.	275
Ayanna Howard	Georgia Tech	environmental engineering;	Dr. Howard's area of research is centered around the concept of humanized intelligence, the process of embedding human cognitive capability into the control path of autonomous systems.	319
Dereje Agonafer	UT Arlington	mechanical engineering;	Dr. Agonafer is interested in thermo/mechanical challenges in electronic systems, Data Center Cooling, 3D Packaging, Thermoelectrics, Microfluidics with Applications in both BioMEMS and Heat Transfer, Nanoelectronics Packaging, Heat Transfer, MEMS Packaging, Refrigeration Cooling, Reliability and Solder Science	196
Samory Kpotufe	Columbia University	machine learning; statistical machine learning;	Dr. Kpotufe works in machine learning, with an emphasis on nonparametric methods and high-dimensional statistics. His work aims to yield insights on the inherent difficulty of high-dimensional problems under practical constraints arising in real-world application domains.	124
Kenneth Gibbs, Jr.	National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH	director of the postdoctoral research associate training program;	Kenny directs the Postdoctoral Research Associate Training (PRAT) program and manages the Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP), T32 biostatistics grants, and Predoctoral MD/PhD or Other Dual-Doctoral Degree Fellowships for Students at Institutions Without NIH-Funded Institutional Predoctoral Dual-Degree Training Programs (F30). He also manages research grants in the area of stem cell biology.	83
Stephanie Danette Preston	Pennsylvania State University	studied underrepresentation of women and ethnic minorities in stem fields, now is associate dean of educational equity;	As Senior Director, and in her current role, Dr. Preston leads the Big Ten Academic Alliance Summer Research Opportunities Program and the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program. She has represented Penn State as a participant in programs such as the National Science Foundation's Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate, designed to broaden participation in science technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines. Additionally, she has coordinated the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Scholars Program.	281
Eugenia South	University of Pennsylvania	emergency medicine;	Dr. South’s research focuses on how neighborhood context impacts health and safety in urban environments. She is interested in understanding the ways in which the physical attributes of where people live, work, and play influence chronic stress, cardiovascular and mental health, and violent crime.	266
Paule Joseph	NIH	nursing; biology; metabolomics	The Joseph’s lab investigates the complexity of the interplay of biological and behavioral components in addressing symptoms and managing medical problems relevant to nursing science, with a special emphasis on metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes. The main focus of the laboratory is to understand the role of sensory science in metabolic disorders and use this information towards the development of novel treatments. Furthermore, the laboratory is interested in the interplay between metabolic disorders, sensory-related pathways and brain diseases, in particular alcohol and substance use disorders.	170
Kayunta Johnson-Winters	University of Texas at Arlington	chemistry; biochemistry;	Research Interests: Biochemistry, F420 Cofactor dependent enzymes. Enzyme kinetics and mechanisms by rapid-mixing pre-steady state and steady state methods. Investigation of reaction intermediates by kinetic isotope effects.	47
Alan P. Bowling	University of Texas at Arlington	mechanical engineering; aerospace engineering; robotics	Research Interests: Multi-body dynamics, design and control with a focus on robotic legged locomotion; Multiscale modeling and simulation; Robotic manipulation; Biomechanics at different time scales	241
Wesley L. Harris	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	aeronautics; astronautics;	Fluid dynamics: unsteady aerodynamics, aeroacoustics; rotorcraft technology; economic incentives: defense systems acquisition, lean financial management methods; sustainment of capital assets; sickle cell pathology: onset dynamics of crisis.	85
Damon L. Woodard	University of Florida	electrical engineering; computer engineering;	Dr. Woodard's research interests include a broad range of biometric / identity science, text analytics, machine learning based cybersecurity, signal / image analysis topics. These include but are not limited to: Behavioral Biometrics, Image Analysis and Machine Learning Based Hardware Assurance, Profiling via Text Analytics, Cognitive Biometrics (Author Attribution), Biometrics Enabled Hardware Security, Machine Learning Enabled Cybersecurity	78
Kevin Kornegay	Morgan State University	electrical engineering; computer engineering; cybersecurity	Research Interests: Cybersecurity, Cryptography, IoT security and privacy policy, Secure embedded systems, Artificial intelligence/machine learning, Digital forensics, Software assurance, Reverse engineering, Databases, Network security, Data analytics, Wireless communications security.	45
Timothy M. Pinkston	University of Southern California	electrical engineering; computer engineering;	The SMART Interconnects Group, headed by Timothy Pinkston, is engaged in research on technologies and techniques for achieving high-performance communication in parallel computer systems---symmetric multiprocessor systems as well as distributed network-based processing systems.	340
Desiree Byrd	City University of New York	neuropsychology;	Our research focuses on the roles of health disparities and cultural identity in normal cognitive aging and in the expression of cognitive dysfunction stemming from central nervous system disease. All of our research is aimed at better understanding sources of variance in cognitive test performance and how these can contribute to establishing more equitable services for marginalized populations. We conduct these studies in the contexts of HIV infection, substance use, and under-represented communities. We are also investigating perceptions of cognitive dysfunction and intergenerational transfer of cognitive style among adults who recently immigrated to New York City from other countries and their young adult children.	289
Anthony Stringer	Emory University	neuropsychology;	Dr. Stringer's research focuses on cognitive rehabilitation outcomes following traumatic brain injury, stroke, epilepsy, and other neurological conditions.	153
Sanmi Koyejo	University of Illinois	computer science; machine learning; imaging	Koyejo's research interests are in developing the principles and practice of adaptive and robust machine learning with applied interests in machine learning for neuroimaging and biomedical imaging.	5
Adriane Randolph	Kennesaw State University	computer science; neuroscience;	Dr. Randolph’s research focuses on brain-computer interface systems which allow for non-muscularly controlled assistive technologies and reflect varying human mental states. As director of the KSU BrainLab, she is working to discover impactful solutions for brain-computer interfaces by uncovering the underlying characteristics that affect users’ control. Other research interests include human-computer interaction, neuro-information systems, and process improvement.	377
Brittany Taylor	University of Florida	orthopeadics; biomedical engineering; bioengineering	Dr. Brittany Taylor's research group will focus on tailored cell-free strategies to complement and improve the native musculoskeletal tissue regenerative processes.	179
Ed Pearson III	Alabama A&M University	computer science;	Area of Interest / Expertise: Cyber/Information Security, Digital Forensics, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Software Engineering, Networks, Cognitive Psychology	358
Leilani Battle	University of Maryland	computer science;	Battle's research interests focus on developing interactive data-intensive systems that can aid analysts in performing complex data exploration and analysis. Her current research is anchored in the field of databases, but utilizes research methodology and techniques from HCI and visualization to integrate data processing (databases) with interactive interfaces (HCI, visualization).	37
Marcella Nuñez-Smith	Yale University	internal medicine; epidemiology;	Promoting health and healthcare equity for structurally marginalized populations with an emphasis on supporting healthcare workforce diversity and development, developing patient reported measurements of healthcare quality, and identifying regional strategies to reduce the global burden of non-communicable diseases. Dr. Nunez-Smith was recently selected to co-chair President-Elect Biden's 12-member Coronavirus task force	68
Joel N. Blankson MD, PhD	Johns Hopkins University	infectious diseases; hiv;	Joel Blankson is Professor of Medicine and Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Blankson's research focuses on viral reservoirs, T cell-mediated control of viral replication in the natural control of HIV-1 infection, and strategies for eliciting functional and sterilizing cures of HIV-1 infection.	184
Demba Ba	Harvard University	electrical engineering; neuroscience;	Interests lie at the intersection of theory, computing, and data, with diverse applications that range from computational neuroscience, multimedia signal processing, and network science.	181
Shane Campbell-Staton	University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA	biology;	Studies how climate shapes demographic history and adaptation over prehistoric and contemporary time periods	81
Delano Lewis	Burman University	systematic entomology; insect taxonomy and systematics; phylogenomics	I am an associate professor of biology with training in conservation biology and systematic entomology, but I have wide research interests and experience that unites around the common theme of insect diversity.	262
Kensha Marie Clark	University of Memphis	chemistry;	Her research interests include ligand design, development of transition metal-based electronic materials, synthetic organometallic chemistry, and catalysis.	259
Larry Gladney	Yale University	physics; cosmology;	Gladney’s research focuses on the intersection of experimental particle physics and cosmology, where he attempts to understand the origins of and fundamental connections between matter, energy, space, and time.	388
Herschel Wade	Johns Hopkins University	physics; biochemistry;	His research focuses on the structural and mechanistic aspects of multi-drug resistance, ligand-dependent molecular switches and how metal ion homeostasis may lead to new drugs to reverse multidrug resistance.	148
Stephen L. Mayo	California Institute of Technology	biology; chemistry;	Mayo's focus has been the coupling of theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches for the study of structural biology. In particular, he has placed a major emphasis on developing quantitative methods for protein design with the goal of developing a fully systematic design strategy.	293
Shanta Hinton	College of William & Mary	biology; chemistry;	Studies protein phosphorylation, specifically focuses on various functional characteristics of the pseudophosphatase map kinase serine/threonine binding protein (MK-STYX)	142
Emery Brown	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	neuroscience; mathematics;	Primary focus of research is the development of statistical methods and signal-processing algorithms for neuroscience data analysis.	141
Erle S. Robertson	University of Pennsylvania	microbiology; genetics; cancer biology	We are investigating the fundamental mechanisms utilized by these gammaherpesviruses to induce cell mediated growth transformation.	209
Damien Young	Baylor College of Medicine	pharmacology; chemical biology;	The Young lab research focuses on the development of chemical pathways leading to molecule that can be used to probe fundamental and disease-associated biology. His lab is pioneering new chemical and biophysical methodologies related to fragment-based drug discovery to be deployed against challenging targets in cancer.	22
Francois M. Abboud	University of Iowa	molecular physiology; biophysics;	Research interests are directed toward the neural regulation of the circulation.	200
Isiah M. Warner	Louisiana State University	chemistry;	His particular expertise is in the area of fluorescence spectroscopy, where his research has focused for more than 35 years. He is considered one of the world’s experts in the analytical applications of fluorescence spectroscopy.	326
Chester Brown	University of Tennessee	genetics;	Research interests include (i) mechanisms by which genes regulate body composition, (ii) genomic factors that contribute to HIV and TB progression in African children	338
Sandra Murray	University of Pittsburgh	biology;	Current projects ongoing in Dr. Murray's laboratory include integrated approaches that assess the role of gap junctions and cell-to-cell communication in endocrine cell proliferation, migration, differentiation, and hormone production.	122
Chinedum Osuji	University of Pennsylvania	materials science; chemical engineering;	Through studies focused on interfacial phenomena, directed self-assembly, rheology and microfluidics, his lab advances structure-property relationships in colloidal suspensions, liquid crystals, surfactants, polymers and biological materials.	366
Christine Hendon	Columbia University	electrical engineering;	Her research interests are in developing optical imaging and spectroscopy instruments for applications in cardiac electrophysiology and interventional cardiology.	102
Eric Detsi	University of Pennsylvania	materials science;	His research is aimed at bridging the gap between basic Materials Science research and energy-related applications.	244
Thomas Searles	Howard University	physics; materials science;	Terahertz spectroscopy, nanomaterials, optics	130
David Van Valen	California Institute of Technology	bioengineering;	Valen lab studies how living systems and their respective viruses encode and decode information about their internal state and their environment by combining ideas from cell biology and physics with recent advances in imaging, machine learning, and genomics to make novel measurements.	199
Darlene Dixon	National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, NIH	biology; toxicology;	The Dixon lab at NIH focuses on defining the pathogenesis/carcinogenesis of tumors affecting the reproductive tract of rodents and humans, and assessing the role of environmental and endogenous hormonal factors in the growth of these tumors.	175
Gary Gibbons	National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH	biology; medicine;	Director of NHLBI. Uses genomics to study the vascular remodeling in health and disease.	277
Griffin P. Rodgers	National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, NIH	biology; chemistry; hematology	His lab focuses on diagnosing and treating congenital/acquired diseases of the bone marrow	379
Fasil Tekola-Ayele	National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH	genetics; epidemiology;	Seeks to understand genetic influences and their interactions with old and present-day environmental factors in growth and consequent cardiometabolic diseases in diverse ancestral populations.	231
Paule V. Joseph	National Institute of Nursing Research, NIH	biology; behavior;	The Joseph’s lab investigates the complexity of the interplay of biological and behavioral components in addressing symptoms and managing medical problems relevant to nursing science, with a special emphasis on metabolic disorders like obesity and diabetes	380
Stacey Dutton	Agnes Scott College	biology;	Professor Dutton is especially interested in the role of neuroinflammation in the disease progression of epilepsy; her interests also include examining the influence of gender on this neurological disorder.	402
Utibe R. Essien	University of Pittsburgh	medicine; health policy;	Dr. Essien is studying patient, provider, and systems-level predictors of the use of novel treatments in Veterans with chronic cardiovascular diseases and developing interventions to improve equity in their use	396
Davene Wright	Harvard Medical School	health policy; decision sciences;	Her research aims to improve the supply of and demand for efficient health care that can improve the management of pediatric chronic diseases, with a focus on childhood obesity	6
Jerome Dugan	University of Washington	health economics;	Dr. Dugan studies health insurance status and how the organization of the healthcare system impacts on healthcare cost and quality	369
Marlyn Allicock	University of Texas at Houston	health behavior; public health;	Dr. Marlyn Allicock's research focuses on cancer prevention and control with an emphasis on cancer-related health disparities in minority populations	397
Stephen B. Thomas	University of Maryland	health policy;	Dr. Thomas studies racial and ethnic health disparities, with focuses on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity and HIV/AIDS	288
Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen	University of Pennsylvania	statistics;	Dr. Tchetgen Tchetgen studies semi-parametric efficiency theory with application to causal inference, missing data problems, statistical genetics and mixed model theory.	57
F. DuBois Bowman	University of Michigan	biostatistics; neuroimaging;	Dr. Bowman studies the statistical analysis of brain imaging data, with applications to mental and neurological disorders such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, schizophrenia, and substance addiction.	210
Asamoah Nkwanta	Morgan State University	mathematics; genetics;	Dr. Nkwanta uses combinatorial and thermodynamic methods to model RNA sequences for RNA secondary structure prediction	4
Kevin Corlette	University of Chicago	mathematics;	Dr. Corlette studies differential and algebraic geometry, with a particular interest in Kahler geometry and locally symmetric spaces	365
Aissa Wade	Penn State University	mathematics;	Dr. Wade is interested in differential geometry, contact geometry, Poisson geometry, and mathematical physics.	224
Omayra Ortega	Sonoma State University	mathematics; public health;	Dr. Ortega's research spans stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, and infectious diseases.	324
Loni Philip Tabb	Drexel University	biostatistics; mathematics;	Dr. Tabb's research focuses primarily on spatial statistics and epidemiology with applications in health and social disparities, violence, and toxicity studies	373
Donald Martin	North Carolina State University	statistics;	Dr. Martin studies the distribution of patterns in sequences, and time series	76
Maria Tackett	Duke University	statistics; education;	Dr. Tackett's research focuses on using technology and active learning techniques to enhance student learning and motivation in large undergraduate statistics courses	59
Bobby Wilson	University of Washington	mathematics;	Dr. Wilson's interests include Harmonic Analysis, Dispersive PDE and Geometric Measure Theory	69
Emma K. Benn	Mount Sinai	biostatistics; population health;	Dr. Benn has studied a wide range of areas, including epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, COPD, prostate cancer, bladder cancer, HPV, vagal dysfunction, opioid adherence, skin bleaching in African and Afro-Caribbean populations, stroke, and cognitive disability; more recently, she has been focused on health disparities research.	23
Miranda Teboh-Ewungkem	Lehigh University	mathematics;	Dr. Ewungkem develops models applicable to transport phenomena from capillaries to tissues	46
Opel Jones	Towson University	mathematics;	Dr. Jones’s research focuses on enumerative combinatorics, specifically pattern avoidance as well as permutation statistics	91
Torina Lewis	Clark Atlanta University	mathematics;	Dr. Lewis' publications include “Bicircular Matroid Designs” in Ars Combinatoria, 2013; “Square Functions as a Dynamic System” in Proceedings of Dynamic Systems and Applications, 2015; and her current work, “The Construction of the Inscribed Polygonal Periodic Functions,” which is funded by the National Science Foundation	219
Syvillia Averett	College of Coastal Georgia	mathematics;	Dr. Averett's interests include representation theory, mathematics education, mentorship, and student development	194
Nathan Alexander	Morehouse College	mathematics;	Dr. Alexander's interests include mathematics education, statistical and mathematical modeling, social networks and graphs	329
Shelby Wilson	University of Maryland	mathematics; biology;	Dr. Price's research interests lie in mathematical problems with applications in neuroscience, oncology, and evolutionary biology	243
Suzanne L. Weeks	Worcester Polytechnic Institute	mathematics;	Dr. Weekes' mathematical interests are in numerical methods for differential equations including applications to spatio-temporal composites and cancer growth	286
Kimberly F. Sellers	Georgetown University	statistics; biostatistics;	Dr. Sellers' areas of interest and expertise are in generalized statistical methods involving count data that contain data dispersion; and in image analysis techniques, particularly low-level analyses including preprocessing, normalization, feature detection, and alignment	32
Edray Herber Goins	Pomona College	mathematics;	Goins works in algebraic geometry and number theory. He studies the properties of Selmer groups for elliptic curves using class groups of number fields. He also studies branched covers of curves, focusing specifically on Belyi maps, Dessins d'Enfants, and monodromy groups.	214
Emille D. Lawrence	University of San Francisco	mathematics;	Dr. Lawrence's research interests include braid groups, geometric group theory, and spatial graphs	105
Chawne Kimber	Lafayette College	mathematics;	Dr. Kimber is interested in ordered rings and groups	56
Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver	North Carolina State University	statistics; mathematics;	Dr. Hughes-Oliver's research interests include drug discovery, transportation modeling, point source modeling, group testing, spatial modeling, covariance nonstationarity.	38
Erica R. Glasper	University of Maryland	neuroscience; endocrinology;	Dr. Glasper's research investigates structural plasticity in the brain, its alteration by experiences and hormones, with a view toward understanding the functional relevance of these changes	42
Laverne Melon	Wesleyan University	biology; neuroscience;	Dr. Melón's work seeks to discover neurobiological mechanisms that drive sex differences in the development of disorders associated with alcohol exposure	367
Nathan A. Smith	George Washington University	neuroscience;	Dr. Smith's work focuses on “Neuro-Glia” interactions, and explores the understudied and novel mechanisms by which neuromodulators mediate the interactions between neurons, astrocytes, and microglia in both normal and disease states	172
Legand Burge	Howard University	computer science;	Dr. Burges research focuses on distributed computing	94
Kimberly Jones	Howard University	civil engineering; environmental engineering;	Dr. Jones’ research interests include developing membrane processes for environmental applications, physical-chemical processes for water and wastewater treatment, remediation of emerging contaminants, global drinking water quality, environmental justice, and environmental nanotechnology.	62
Marcus Alfred	Howard University	physics;	Dr. Alfred's research in computational physics focuses on particle physics, scattering, and high energy physics.	164
Oladapo Bakare	Howard University	chemistry;	Dr. Bakare's research focuses on the design and synthesis of small organic molecule as androgen receptor and MAPkinase inhibitors for studies in prostate cancer cell lines.	165
Paul Bezandry	Howard University	mathematics;	Dr. Bezandry's research in applied mathematics focuses on functional analysis and probability theory.	352
Alfonso Campbell	Howard University	psychology; neuroscience;	Dr. Campbell is primarily interested in the psychoneuroimmunological correlates of health and disease.	229
Denee Mwendwa	Howard University	psychology;	Dr. Mwendwa examines the effects of cardiovascular disease risk factors on the neurocognitive aging process in African Americans	134
Joel Barry Coley	Howard University	physics; astronomy;	Dr. Cooley's research interests focuses on binary star evolution at key phases in their lifetime, specifically when X-ray and/or gamma-ray emission dominates their spectra.	61
Stanley Einstein-Matthews	Howard University	mathematics;	Dr. Einstein-Matthew's research focuses on geometry and topology.	349
Broderick Eribo	Howard University	biochemistry; biology;	Dr. Eribo's current research focuses on the molecular characterization of foodborne and environmental bacteria, and microbial biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates from various substrates.	25
Bryana French	University of St. Thomas, Minnesota	psychology;	Dr. French's primary research interests focus on sexual coercion and associated psychosocial outcomes among racially diverse young men and women.	360
Genevieve Neal Perry	University of North Carolina	obstetrics; gynecology;	Dr. Neal-Perry conducts human and rodent research that is focused on understanding nutritional and environmental factors that affect the age of puberty, ovarian and testicular function, fertility and the age of menopause. She is especially interested in the effect of maternal or paternal environment on fertility of male and female offspring across multiple generations.	34
Russell Debose Boyd	University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center	genetics; biology; molecular biology	Dr. Boyd studies the feedback regulation of an enzyme called HMG-CoA reductase. It is the rate-limiting enzyme in the synthesis of cholesterol as well as a number of what we call nonsterol isoprenoids that play a variety of roles in cells.	331
Jedidah Isler	Dartmouth University	astrophysics; astronomy; physics	Dr. Isler studies hyperactive, supermassive black holes. Her scientific research explores the physics of blazars – supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies that create particle jets moving at nearly the speed of light.	255
Manu Platt	Georgia Institute of Technology	biomedical engineering; bioengineering;	The Platt Lab's mission is to fuse engineering, cell biology, and physiology in a diverse, inclusive team, to understand how cells sense, respond, and remodel their immediate mechanical and biochemical environments for repair and regeneration in health and disease, then to translate that knowledge to clinics domestically and internationally to address global health disparities.	401
Eve Higginbotham	University of Pennsylvania	ophthalmology; diversity & inclusion;	Dr. Higginbotham is a practicing glaucoma specialist, and has authored over 150 peer-reviewed articles and co-edited four ophthalmology textbooks and continues to remain active in scholarship related to health policy, STEM, and patient care at the University of Pennsylvania.	355
Gina Poe	University of California Los Angeles	neuroscience;	The focus of the Poe lab is to investigate the mechanisms by which sleep traits serve learning and memory consolidation. We are interested in how disrupted sleep seen in IDD patients may impact learning and memory.	257
Tirin Moore	Stanford University	neuroscience; biology;	The Moore lab studies neural mechanisms of visual-motor integration and the neural basis of cognition (e.g. attention). We study the activity of single neurons in visual and motor structures within the brain, examine how perturbing that activity affects neurons in other brain structures, and also how it affects the perceptual and motor performance of behaving animals.	151
Marc Anton Walters	New York University	chemistry;	Bioinorganic chemistry; study of redox potentials in electron transfer proteins; noncovalent influence on the modulation of the redox potentials	274
Karine Gibbs	Harvard University	molecular biology; cellular biology;	The goal of our research is to understand how cells and organisms distinguish between self and other. Specifically, we are investigating the molecular mechanisms underlying the ability of cells to discriminate self from non-self in the uropathogen Proteus mirabilis.	104
Squire J. Booker	Penn State University	chemistry; molecular biology; biochemistry	Research in the Booker Lab focuses on elucidating the chemical mechanisms by which enzymes containing iron-sulfur clusters catalyze chemical reactions. Most ongoing projects deal with members of the Radical S-adenosylmethionine Superfamily, a diverse group of enzymes that employ radical chemistry to catalyze transformations involved in post-transcriptional and post-translational modifications, cofactor biosynthesis, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, and enzyme activation.	317
Andrew Campbell	Brown University	genetics; immunology; microbiology	Campbell's research focuses on microbial diseases, particularly infectious diseases in neglected populations and regions.	294
Avery August	Cornell University	immunology;	The August lab is interested in the role of the tyrosine Itk in the regulation of the immune response to infection and inflammatory disease, with a specific focus on inflammatory and anti-inflammatory responses.	228
E. Dale Abel	University of Iowa	internal medicine; biochemistry; biomedical engineering	The Abel lab's current research interests focus on elucidating the molecular mechanisms leading to cardiac dysfunction in diabetes and the regulation of myocardial growth and metabolism by insulin signaling.	390
Azizi Seixas	New York University	psychiatry; population health;	Dr. Seixas’ research broadly focuses on three areas: 1) multilevel determinants of sleep and cardiovascular disease disparities, 2) long-term health consequences of cardiovascular disease (CVD) disparities, and 3) developing adaptive, group-tailored, and personalized behavior modification interventions, with the use of machine learning analytical tools, to improve health and well-being.	162
Tyisha Williams	Wilkes University	neuroscience; cellular biology; molecular biology	Dr. Williams's research focuses on understanding the role of metabolism in normal brain development and maintenance as well as disease states such as neurodegeneration, diabetes, and cancer using cutting-edge biochemical, cell biological, and genetic approaches. The primary goal of my laboratory focuses on characterizing the contribution of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in the brain. As a regulator of energy metabolism, the AMPK signaling pathway is altered during many disease states.	15
Farah Lubin	University of Alabama at Birmingham	neuroscience; epigenetics;	Dr. Lubin's research interest is focused on understanding the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying transcriptional regulation of genes in the nervous system to mediate cognition and how these mechanisms are altered with aging and cognitive disorders including epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. Currently, our research is directed at characterizing the role of epigenetic mechanisms, such as histone modifications, DNA methylation, and the interaction of the NF-kB signaling pathway with chromatin to determine how these molecular changes participate in the regulation of gene expression related to the normal process of learning and memory and how they are deranged with cognitive deficits.	270
Anthony Graham	Winston-Salem State University	education pedagogy;	Graham’s research agenda focuses on effective pedagogy that improves the academic performance of K-12 African American male students as well as enhances the academic identity of African American male students.	400
Gilda Barabino	Oberlin College	biomedical engineering; chemical engineering;	Barabino Laboratory on Vascular and Orthopedic Tissue Engineering Research is primarily focused on cellular and tissue responses to fluid mechanical forces in the context of vascular disease and orthopedic tissue engineering. We concentrate on the characterization and quantification of mechanical and biochemical cues that influence tissue growth and disease progression.	249
Stacey D. Finley	University of Southern California	biomedical engineering; mathematical oncology; systems biology	Dr. Finley's research group applies systems biology methods to quantitatively understand the dynamics of key signaling and metabolic networks in cancer, providing a multifaceted approach to improve our understanding of this complex disease.	176
Gentry Patrick	University of California, San Diego	neurobiology;	Our laboratory is interested in how synaptic activity modulates the molecular make-up of synaptic connections in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS), which in many cases leads to long-lasting changes in synaptic efficacy.	227
Devin L. Horton	University of California, Davis	studied biology, not a graduate diversity officer;	Devin L. Horton is the Graduate Diversity Officer for STEM disciplines at UC Davis. With nearly 10 years of experience in teaching and program development, Dr. Horton has a strong background in mentoring and student success.	282
Bianca Jones Marlin	Columbia University	psychology; neuroscience; neurobiology and behavior	As postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Nobel Laureate Dr. Richard Axel, she investigates transgenerational epigenetic inheritance, or how trauma in parents affect the brain structure and sensory experience of their future offspring. During her graduate studies, in the laboratory of Dr. Robert Froemke, Dr. Marlin examined how the brain adapts to care for a newborn. Her findings uncovered a fundamental role of the neuromodulator oxytocin during the transition to motherhood.	328
Avelino Amado	Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medicine	diversity program manager;	The Weill Cornell Initiative to Maximize Student Development (Weill Cornell IMSD) aims to increase the number of PhD students from underrepresented backgrounds who are trained to conduct exceptional research and continue as leaders in biomedical research careers.	145
Jamaine Davis	Meharry Medical College	biochemistry; cancer biology;	Our overreaching cancer research goal is to understand the sciences that contribute to cancer health disparities and ultimately contribute to reduction of the disparities.	119
Avery D. Posey	University of Pennsylvania	pharmacology; cell and molecular biology; immunology	Dr. Posey is a geneticist proficient in the development and pre-clinical characterization of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) and other engineered T cell strategies for cancer immunotherapy	381
Alicia Monroe	Baylor College of Medicine	studied medicine, now a provost;	As Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic and Faculty Affairs at Baylor College of Medicine my goal is to support all members of the Baylor community in fulfilling our mission of creating and applying science and discoveries to advance education. < /> My academic interests include curricula development and faculty development with specific focus on physician-patient communication, cross-cultural communication, and mentoring students and faculty.	403
Curtis Henry	Emory	pediatrics; cancer immunology;	Dr. Henry's research seeks to determine how chronic inflammation shapes hematopoiesis, immunity, and leukemogenesis. Results from these studies will be applied to improving therapeutic responses in at risk populations including children who are overweight or obese and aged populations.	308
Yolanda Jones	Alcorn	chemistry;	Our research efforts are aimed toward the development of detection methods and sensors for applications in areas from food safety and homeland security to clinical diagnostics. Currently, I am the principal investigator of research projects from the Department of Homeland Security/ Southeastern Regional Research Initiative and the NIH/MS-INBRE program. I have a strong interest in improving education and experiential learning for my students.	278
Latanya P. Hammonds-Odie	Georgia Gwinnett College	biology;	Activities that encourage undergraduate students, particularly persons excluded based on ethnicity and race from science (PEERS), to pursue careers in biomedical research.	3
Joseph Chaney	Xavier University of Louisiana	chemistry;	Dr. Chaney seeks to understand the role of conformational changes in Kinesin-5 on processivity and inhibition.	167
John D. Carpten	University of Southern California	translational genomics;	Dr. Carpten’s primary research program centers around the development and application of cutting edge genomic technologies and bioinformatics analysis in search of germ-line and somatic alterations that are associated with cancer risk and tumor characteristics, respectively. A major focus of Dr. Carpten’s research has been related to prostate cancer genetics.	10
Debra D Roberts	Howard University	psychology; neuroscience;	Dr. Roberts’ primary area of research involves examining various aspects of culture and ethnicity as they impact the relationship between psychosocially toxic environments, otherwise known as PTEs (poverty, violence, discrimination, trauma, etc.) and psychosocial well-being among children and adolescents.	265
Clayton Yates	Tuskegee University	biology; cancer research; biomedican research	Dr. Yates has an interest prostate and breast cancer research, particularly in African Americans. Dr. Yates has established several cell lines based models derived from African American patients that are used by many labs today to study molecular events the lead prostate cancer development and metastasis. Additionally, Dr. Yates has identified multiple biomarkers for the prediction of aggressive cancers in African Americans with prostate or breast cancer, and this has led to the development of a novel therapeutic for African American breast, prostate, and pancreatic patients that is posed to enter clinical trials in 2018.	132
Hadiyah-Nicole Green	Morehouse School of Medicine	physiology; cancer research;	With more than ten years of interdisciplinary research experience, Dr. Green specializes in developing targeted cancer therapies using lasers and nanoparticles. Her expertise lies at the intersection of nanotechnology, immunotherapy, and precision medicine. She is noted for the development of several patent-pending cancer treatments that have had no observable side effects in laboratory mice, which is a preliminary study to testing with human subjects.	223
David S. Wilkes	The University of Virginia	medicine; biology;	Research studies are focused on unraveling the immune mechanisms that lead to allograft destruction.	99
Shawn Blanton	Carnegie Mellon University	electrical and computer engineering; computer science;	The Advanced Chip Test Laboratory (ACTL) at Carnegie Mellon University develops and implements data-mining techniques for improving the operation, design, manufacturing and testing of integrated systems. Our research involves data-mining algorithm development, data analysis, chip design and fabrication in collaboration with various industrial partners that currently include IBM, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, CISCO Systems, Intel, GlobalFoundries, and ARM. The founder and head of ACTL is Prof. Shawn Blanton.	198
Audrey Napier	Alabama State University	biology;	Dr. Audrey Napier, Associate Professor of Biology, research interests focuses on the molecular interactions that take place during development, organogenesis or regeneration. Currently the focus is examining the molecular interactions that take place during thymus organogenesis.	378
Cerrone Foster	East Tennessee State University	biology;	Dr. Foster has been a member of the ETSU community for 15 years. She earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from ETSU in 2007 and joined as faculty in 2011. Dr. Foster has published several peer-reviewed publications and won awards in teaching and research. Dr. Foster is also involved in mentoring students at ETSU and the surrounding community.	327
Kimberly M. Jackson	Spelman College	biochemistry; chemistry; food studies	My laboratory examines the use of various diet-derived as potential chemotherapeutic agents for hormone-refractory or advanced prostate cancer. Currently, there is no curative therapy available once prostate cancer has metastasized or progressed to advanced disease. It is therefore imperative to develop alternative effective therapies, such as chemotherapeutic agents with novel mechanisms of action.	7
Corey Reynolds	Baylor College of Medicine	molecular physiology; biophys;	Dr. Reynolds research focuses on animal models of heart disease, and uses CV imaging. He is currently a Regional Medical Scientific Director at Merck.	322
Mark Lewis	Cornell University	information engineering;	Broadly speaking Professor Lewis is interested in dynamic control of service systems. Most often he uses the methodology of stochastic dynamic programming or Markov decision processes to analyze these problems. Along the way he has done fundamental research on the theory of MDPs.	362
Jennifer Eberhardt	Stanford University	psychology; sociology;	Studies the consequences of the psychological association between race and crime. President of Psych Science.	39
Raychelle Burks	St. Edward's University	chemistry;	Her current research efforts are focused on the design, fabrication, and analysis of colorimetry sensors that are field portable. To maximize portability, Dr. Burks works on utilizing smart phones as scientific analytical devices	287
Ericka Boone	National Institutes of Health, NIH	;	Ericka Boone, Ph.D. is the Director of the NIH Division of Loan Repayment. In this role, Dr. Boone is responsible for administering and providing leadership for the NIH Loan Repayment Programs (LRP) as well as representing NIH on matters related to the operations, policy development and evaluation of the LRP. Previous to this position, Dr. Boone served as a Health Scientist Administrator in the Office of Science Policy and Communications at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. There she developed and targeted science-based publications, outreach initiatives and other activities to educate a variety of audiences about the science of drug use, abuse and addiction.	206
Angela Byars-Winston	University of Wisconsin-Madison	medicine; diversity awareness;	Dr. Byars-Winston’s research examines cultural influences on academic and career development, especially for women and individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the sciences, engineering, and medicine with the aim of broadening their participation in STEM fields.	337
Tierra A. Caldwell	Pennsylvania State University	educational equity;	Dr. Caldwell is the Assistant Director for The Office of Graduate Educational Equity Programs at Penn State University.	264
Takita Sumter	Winthrop University	chemistry; cancer biochemistry; molecular biology	Dr. Sumter is the Dean of Winthrop University’s College of Arts and Sciences.	107
Clifford W. Houston	University of Texas	microbiology; immunology; diversity	Presently, the long term objective of our laboratory is to determine the role of Aeromonas hydrophila virulence factors in the pathogenesis of disease in man.	36
Azeez Aileru	East Carolina University	neuroscience; physiology;	My research activity is designed to study the neuronal control of hypertension and its association with metabolic syndromes.	245
Charles Rotimi	National Human Genome Research Institute, NIH	genomics; metabolic, cardiovascular and inflammatory disease;	Dr. Rotimi's research focuses on the etiology of complex diseases and health disparities. His team studies interethnic differences in the distribution of genetic and environmental risk factors, with particular emphasis on populations of African ancestry.	232
Rosalind Gregory-Bass	Spelman College	health careers; evironmental and health science; biology	Her research focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating ovarian cancer growth and development. Her basic science and clinical research interests to date focus on women’s health and development of pipeline programs that foster biomedical graduate and professional educational opportunities for women of color.	332
James H. Curry	University of Colorado-Boulder	applied mathematics; technology; cybersecurity	Dr. James Curry is concerned with problems at the interface of numerical methods, matrix theory, and applied mathematics. Curry is also deeply committed to workforce and mathematics education and the next generation of students who he encourages to 'do more mathematics.' Mathematics, Computation and Communications skills provides students in STEM with significant advantage. Most recent research efforts have been focused on data streams from WiFi networks and their characteristics. This work intersects cybersecurity, data analysis and modeling. I am currently working with groups of undergraduates and a former PhD student.	250
Kennda Lynch	Lunar and Planetary Institute	astrobiology; geomicrobiology;	Dr. Lynch’s current research focuses on studying life in hypersaline environments because recent data suggest the brines are likely ubiquitous throughout the solar system and, especially on ocean worlds, are integral to habitable environments on planetary bodies.	252
Archie Taylor	Alcorn University	biology; molecular medicine;	Dr. Archie C. Taylor is investigating the genetic components of several diseases, using the tools of molecular and cellular biology. His goal is to identify factors that can change diagnoses and treatment or potentially eradicate diseases that disproportionately impact communities of color.	273
James Whitfield	Dartmouth University	physics; machine learning; quantum communication	The overarching objective of our group is to understand the abilities and limitations of new and existing computers to perform physical simulations. In particular, we are interested in the role that quantum mechanics plays in computation both in terms of quantum computers and classical models of quantum information.	276
Tomeka L. Suber	University of Pittsburgh	medicine; pulmonary; allergy	Dr. Suber studies host defense mechanisms in intrapulmonary bacterial infections that lead to acute respiratory distress syndrome. She has also studied how regulation of protein stability by the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway modulates lung epithelial responses during inflammation.	285
Tracy Johnson	University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA	biology; biochemistry; biophysics	The goal of our research is to decipher the workings of this elegant ribonucleoprotein "machine," which has become even more intriguing in light of evidence that splicing signals are recognized co-transcriptionally, while the RNA polymerase is still engaged with a chromatin template. Our work is focused on three key areas (i) understanding the molecular details of the spliceosome rearrangements involved in splice site recognition and splicing catalysis; (ii) dissecting how this occurs in the context of transcription, chromatin modification, and other RNA processing events; and (iii) understanding how the cell exploits these mechanisms to respond to its environment.	406
Joseph S. Francisco	University of Pennsylvania	chemistry; atmospheric chemistry;	Research in our laboratory focuses on basic studies in spectroscopy, kinetics and photochemistry of novel transient species in the gas phase, in aerosol and at the ice-quasi liquid layer.	385
Tyrone B. Hayes	University of California Berkeley	biology; genetics; amphibians	My research focuses on the role of steroid hormones in amphibian development and I conduct both laboratory and field studies in the U.S. and Africa. The two main areas of interest are metamorphosis and sex differentiation, but I am also interested in growth (larval and adult) and hormonal regulation of aggressive behavior.	35
Joshua J. Joseph	Ohio State University	endocrinology; diabetes; metabolism	Dr. Joseph's research focus is to understand risk factors for the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes in diverse populations. His group examines the role of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, specifically aldosterone and cortisol, in the development of diabetes and obesity using data from longitudinal observational cohorts. He has also been working to shed light on racial and ethnic differences in the association of physical activity and other lifestyle factors in the development of diabetes using large multi-ethnic observational cohorts including the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and the Jackson Heart Study.	405
Sharifa Love-Rutledge	University of Alabama at Birmingham	chemistry; biochemistry; molecular biology	Dr. Love-Rutledge’s research interests are in the areas of diabetes and insulin resistance. Research in her laboratory focuses on two specific goals i) identification and characterization of early targetable signals related to the dysfunction of insulin secreting β cells and ii) understanding the effect proteins, like FAT10, a Type 1 diabetes susceptibility gene, have on β cells and insulin sensitive tissues such as (or including) liver, muscle, and fat.	387
Rhonda Souvenir	University of Iowa	internal medicine; endocrinology;	Dr. Souvenir's work lies in the area of internal medicine , and specifically endocrinology and metabolism.	80
Tonya Peeples	University of Iowa	chemical engineering; bioengineering;	Peeples' group applies an understanding of biological systems to engineer stability in enzyme and cell systems in green chemical process applications. Current activities involve the characterization of adaptation of fungal and archaeal systems to extreme conditions and the elucidation of three dimensional architecture and gene expression in environmental biofilms using fluorescence and RAMAN spectroscopy. The Peeples group is adept at designing reactor systems for the cultivation of fastidious organisms. Specific areas of expertise are in the application of biological systems in interfacial catalysis for oxidative conversions in complex molecules.	53
LaShanda Korley	University of Delaware	bioengineering;	The Korley research group is located within the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware. The group utilizes a bio-inspired approach for the development of mechanically-enhanced, multifunctional polymeric materials for a myriad of applications, including energy and sustainability, biomedical engineering, protective fabrics, and structural materials. Utilizing key concepts from Nature, we seek to understand the influence of domain architecture, self-assembly, and structural interplay on material behavior. Our laboratory utilizes materials chemistry to design platform systems for these investigations and correlates structural features to material response.	269
Josephine Allen	University for Florida	bioengineering; materials science;	The Allen Research group conducts research on biomaterials, cell-material interactions, and stem cell differentiation. The focus of our work is on developing strategies to control adult stem cell differentiation for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The goal is to better understand the multiple physiological signals and interactions that elicit molecular events governing stem cell differentiation. These molecular events, include substrate properties, mechanical cues, soluble factors, and cell-cell communication ultimately control stem cell fate and are the target areas of our research.	235
Carol Scarlett	Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University	physics;	Prof. Scarlett is actively involved in dark matter research as well as developing a program to use positrons to study plasmas and weak interactions.	163
Knashawn Morales	University of Pennsylvania	biostastistics; epidemiology;	Dr. Morales' methodological research interests include latent variable models, categorical data analysis, longitudinal-data analysis, and measurement error models. Dr. Morales has extensive collaborative experience in mental health services and clinical trials research. In addition, she has participated in studies involving behavioral modification interventions for asthma, HIV/STD risk reduction and weight management.	48
Heather Bennett	Bard College	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Bennett's work focuses on molecular and behavior genetics of neurological disease, and on the genetics and biochemistry of development.	185
A. Bolu Ajiboye	Case Western Reserve University	neuroscience; bioengineering;	Development of brain-computer-interface (BCI) technologies for restoring sensori-motor function to individuals who have experienced severely debilitating injuries to the nervous system, such as spinal cord injury and stroke.	368
Henry Colecraft	Columbia University	neuroscience; pharmacology; biophysics	Dr. Colecraft's work lies in the biophysics of ion channels, particularly as it relates to cellular, molecular, and developmental neuroscience.	55
Farrah Madison	Hope College	neuroscience; biology; psychology	Dr. Madison's work lies in behavioral neuroendocrinology, stress, and sex steroid hormones.	354
Kebreten Manaye	Howard University	neuroscience; physiology; biochemistry	Dr. Manaye's research program has focused on understanding the mechanisms that underlie neurological and neurodegenerative illnesses that are associated with brain aging. For these studies I use a diverse range of stereological, neuroethnological, neuroimaging, biochemical, and behavioral approaches to understand normal aging of the brain, neuropathology of aging and comparative work aimed at elucidating neuronal mechanisms of dementia, depression, and other comorbidities.	370
Kimberlei Richardson	Howard University	neuroscience; pharmacology;	Dr. Richardson studies sex differences in motivated behavior and addiction (drug and food); Neuropharmacological and behavioral approaches to study hormonal regulation of orexin functioning the central nervous system.	65
Mohamed Farah	Johns Hopkins	neuroscience; biology;	The Mohamed Farah Lab studies axonal regeneration in the peripheral nervous system.	190
Sean Veney	Kent State University	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Veney studies mechanisms regulating the development of sex differences, neuroendocrine control of sexual behavior, hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal regulation, sex differences, mental Illness, and Zebra Finch development.	146
Walter Royal III	Morehouse School of Medicine	neuroscience;	Dr. Walter's research focuses on mechanisms of disease risk and progression in individuals with MS, HIV-related neurological disorders, and neurosardoidosis.	123
Yasmin Hurd	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	neuroscience;	Neuroscientist studying the neurobiology of drug addiction and the development of new treatments. The current focus is on cannabis and heroin.	404
Zayd Khaliq	National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH	neuroscience; physiology;	Dr. Khaliq's lab is focused on the cellular and synaptic mechanisms of neuronal firing within the midbrain dopamine system.	344
Natalie Brito	NYU Steinhardt	neuroscience; psychology;	The ISLAND lab investigates the impact of the social and language environment on early neurocognitive development.	256
Gunnar Kwakye	Oberlin College	neuroscience;	Dr. Kwakye's lab specializes in neurotoxicology and neurodegeneration.	161
Leslie Kwakye	Oberlin College	neuroscience; cognitive sciences;	Dr. Kwakye's lab investigates how the brain combines information from the different senses and how cognitive factors such as attention modulate this multisensory integration.	103
Arnold Hyndman	Rutgers-New Brunswick	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Hyndman's research focuses on neural development and the role of transferrin in the development of the chick retina.	320
Nnamdi Pole	Smith College	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Pole's research focuses on post-traumatic stress disorder, ethnic minority mental health and psychotherapy research.	121
Hassen Wollebo	Temple University	neuroscience; virology;	Dr. Wollebo is focused on understanding the molecular events involving neurotropic polyomavirus JC latency and reactivation and developing effective therapeutic approach based on an RNA guided Cas9 gene editing platform for human neurotropic JC.	333
Hugh Fentress	Tennessee State University	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Fentress is currently focusing on serotonin’s involvement in psychiatry disorders and obesity.	383
Nathan Smith	The Children's National Research Institute	neuroscience; pharmacology;	The Smith Lab focuses on “Neuro-Glia” interactions, exploring the understudied and novel mechanisms by which neuromodulators mediate the interactions between neurons, astrocytes, and microglia in both normal and disease states.	133
Crystal Rogers	UC Davis	neuroscience; biology;	The Rogers Lab studies the molecular mechanisms that control the formation of cranial neural crest cells, the process that neural crest cells use to leave the neural tube and separate from each other (the epithelial to mesenchymal transition-EMT), and the signals that drive specification of neural crest derivatives.	1
Julian Thayer	UC Irvine	neuroscience; sociology; ecology	Dr. Thayer specializes in health psychology, psychopathology, health disparities, heart rate variability, emotions, stress and neuroimaging research.	64
Brad Dickerson	UNC	neuroscience; biomechanics;	Research in Dr. Dickerson's lab is focused on understanding how motor output is structured by sensory input using the fruit fly as a model organism.	143
Bennet Omalu	University of California Davis	neuroscience; pathology;	Dr. Omalu is an expert on chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a disease he identified in the brains of deceased athletes and veterans.	50
Byron Ford	University of California Riverside	neuroscience; biomedical sciences;	Dr. Ford's laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in the pathophysiology of stroke and acute brain injuries.	375
Amanda Bryant-Friedrich	Wayne State University	chemistry;	Dr. Bryant-Friedrich's research interests center around the study and use of naturally and synthetically modified nucleosides and nucleotides in the determination of disease etiology and drug design and development.	16
Brandon Quillian	Georgia Southern University	chemistry;	Dr. Quillian's research focuses on organic and organometallic chemistry.	314
Chibueze Amanchukwu	University of Chicago	chemistry;	The Amanchukwu Lab focuses on tackling challenges related to electrolytes for energy storage and electrocatalysis.	92
Elon Ison	North Carolina State University	chemistry;	The Ison Lab is interested in the discovery and design of new organometallic catalysts, with a primary focus on catalytic oxidation.	189
Nuno Maulide	University of Vienna	chemistry;	The Maulide Group focuses on the unusual or unconventional reactivity profiles of organic compounds.	251
Theresa Gaines	Delta State University	chemistry;	Dr. Gaines created Big Magnet Games to facilitate the distribution of games that can be used in the classroom to introduce or apply concepts in chemistry.	28
Phoebe Kelley	Philander Smith College	chemistry;	Dr. Kelley is a VIPEr Fellow interested in improving teaching of inorganic chemistry.	330
Nicholas Ball	Pomona College	chemistry;	Dr. Ball is interested in developing new metal-catalyzed/-mediated organic reactions.	159
Fikile Brushett	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	chemistry;	The Brushett Group's mission is to develop transformative electrochemical technologies that enable a sustainable energy economy.	391
Robert Gilliard	University of Virginia	chemistry;	The Gilliard Research Laboratory focuses on the synthesis, structure, reactivity and applications of main-group and late transition metal species.	111
Suazette Mooring	Georgia State Univerity	chemistry;	Dr. Mooring's group employs qualitative and quantitative methods to study the barriers to student success in undergraduate chemistry as well as the design and synthesis of small molecules that target cancer and inflammatory diseases.	100
Milana Thomas	Haverford College	chemistry;	Dr. Thomas has expertise in materials science, with a specific skills in FTIR, XPS, contact angle, and surface functionalization.	74
Cinda Scott	The School for Field Studies, Center for Tropical Island Biodiversity Studies	ecology; biology;	Dr. Scott has expertise in the heritability of evolved differences in gene expression and the biological significance of genetic variation. Her current interests lie at the crossroads of improving undergraduate STEM laboratory experiences and the administrative entities that work to provide students with educational opportunities	21
Ana Spalding	Oregon State University	biology; marine science;	Dr. Spalding studies the adaptive capacity to ocean acidification in resource-dependent communities in California and science policy engagement related to ocean acidification on the West Coast of the United States.	356
Deidre Gibson	Hampton University	biology; marine science;	Dr. Gibson studies zooplankton dynamics and feeding behaviors, and is involved in communicating ocean studies to informal audiences and ocean science education.	40
Melissa Kemp	University of Texas at Austin	paleobiology; geology; biology	Dr. Kemp studies how extinction, diversification, and colonization are shaped by environmental perturbations. Her lab integrates macroevolutionary theory with paleobiology, ecology, and conservation biology by combining field, laboratory, and quantitative methods	147
Yvonne Vallès	University of The West Indies Cave Hill	biology; genomics;	Dr. Valles has expertise in genomics and microbiomics, with a specific focus on the health and developmental consequences of toxicant-based alterations	220
Janelle Thompson	Nanyang Technological University - Singapore	biology; marine science;	Dr. Thompson's lab works on topics in water quality and extremophile biotechnology.	237
Monique Ward	University of Michigan	psychology;	Dr. Ward's research interests center on children’s and adolescents’ developing conceptions of both gender and sexuality, and on the contribution of these notions to their social and sexual decision-making.	306
Frank Yates	University of Michigan	psychology; business;	Dr. Yates’ current research activity includes judgment and decision processes, decision aiding, judgment analysis, decision management, improving judgment accuracy, affective forecasting, and applications of cognitive psychology.	29
Jonathan Morrow	University of Michigan	neuroscience;	Dr. Morrow's research delineates the basic neurobiology that underlies motivated behavior, and determining how variation in that neurobiology can lead to psychopathology.	12
Lanice Avery	University of Virginia	psychology; neuroscience;	Dr. Avery is interested in Black women’s intersectional identities and how the negotiation of dominant gender ideologies and cultural stereotypes are associated with adverse psychological and sexual health outcomes.	13
Michelle Johnson	University of Pennsylvania	rehabilitation; robotics; design and control	Dr. Johnson is an Associate Professor in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (School of Medicine) with secondary appointments in Bioengineering and in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (within the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences). I hold a mechanical engineering PhD from Stanford University. She directs the Rehabilitation Robotics Research Lab, which is affiliated with both the School of Medicine via Pennsylvania Institute for Rehab Medicine (PIRM) and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences via Penn GRASP Lab. Her research focus area is on enhancing neurorehabilitation and neuroplasticity using technology-assisted rehabilitation. The lab works to integrate state-of-the-art robotics with neuroscience and rehabilitation medicine to support persons with disabilities; specifically, they validate and develop robotic systems for older persons and persons with brain injuries as well as use these systems to understand recovery mainly after upper limb impairment.	301
LaTasha Crawford	UW Madison	neuroscience; pathology;	Dr. Crawford examines how your sense of touch and your sense of pain are interrelated, and how those senses dysfunction in the face of various diseases.	263
Ian Dobbins	WashU	neuroscience; psychology;	Professor Dobbins studies the cognitive process and neural mechanisms underlying how people both deliberately and automatically recover memories.	272
Cedric Williams	UVA	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Williams uses a mix of computational and wetlab techniques to develop new behavioral and cognitive protocols to train laboratory rodents and African Gambia rats to detect target scents associated with explosive odorants.	93
Ebenezer Yamoah	University of Nevada Reno	neuroscience; physiology; biology	Dr. Yamoah studies the structure and function of the inner ear, and perturbations that lead to hearing loss.	203
Yarimar Carrasquillo	NCCIH/NIH	neuroscience;	Dr. Carrasquillo investigates the anatomical, molecular, and cellular mechanisms of the amygdala that underlie pathological pain states.	357
Sannisha Dale	University of Miami	neuroscience; psychology;	Dr. Dale studies factors that drive health inequalities, relationships between trauma, resilience, and health outcomes in people with or at risk of HIV, and intervention strategies to promote resilience and health.	292
Fredrick Korley	Univ of Michigan	neuroscience; emergency medicine;	Dr. Korley works on the translation of novel diagnostics to inform clinically rational, timely, and cost-effective diagnosis of cardiac and brain injury in the emergency department.	213
Mercedes Burns	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	evolutionary biology; population genomics; genome biology	Evolution of sex and sexual conflict in animal mating systems.	217
Rachel Brewster	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	neuroscience; biology;	Dr. Brewster investigates the regulation of brain development and metabolism, specifically by studying the regulation of microtubule stability of neurulation as well as the mechanisms underlying anoxia tolerance.	136
William Massey	Princeton	operations research; financial engineering;	Mathematician and operations researcher with expertise in queuing theory.	254
Jamol Pender	Cornell University	operations research;	Pender's research interests include queueing theory, applied probability, Markov processes, control theory, and mathematical finance.	246
Ndapa Nakashole	UCSD	computer science;	Dr. Nakashole's research interests are in natural language processing and machine learning.	339
Robert Hampshire	University of Michigan	data science; public policy;	He develops and applies operations research, data science, and systems approaches to public and private service industries.	66
Sylvester James Gates	Brown University	theoretical physics;	He currently continues his research in supersymmetry in systems of particles, fields, and strings.	152
Wilfrid Gangbo	UCLA	mathematics;	Research interests include calculus of variations, nonlinear analysis, partial differential equations, kinetic theory, functional analysis, fluid mechanics.	138
Ashia Wilson	MIT	electrical engineering; computer science;	My research focuses on the methodological foundations, theory, and fairness in machine learning.	126
Michael Carbin	MIT	electrical engineering; computer science;	We investigate the semantics, design, and implementation of systems that operate in the presence of uncertainty in their environment (perception), implementation (neural networks or approximate transformations), or execution (unreliable hardware).	33
Anthony Joseph	UC Berkeley	electrical engineering; computer science;	My primary research interests are in secure machine learning, data centers, mobile/distributed computing, and wireless communications (networking and telephony).	313
Boubacar Kante	UC Berkeley	electrical engineering; computer science;	We are dedicated to multidisciplinary research in the area of wave-matter interaction from microwaves to optics.	382
D. Fox Harrell	MIT	digital media; computer science;	His research explores the relationship between imagination and computation and involves inventing new forms of VR, computational narrative, videogaming for social impact, and related digital media forms.	24
Akintunde Akinwande	MIT	electrical engineering; computer science;	Lithographically patterned metal oxide transistors for large-area electronics	280
Collin Stultz	MIT/MGH	electrical engineering; computer science;	Research in the RLE Computational Cardiovascular Research Group is focused on three areas: 1) Understanding conformational changes in biomolecules that play an important role in common human diseases, 2) Using machine learning to develop models that identify patients at high risk of adverse clinical events, and 3) Developing new methods to discover optimal treatment strategies for high risk patients.	260
Cardinal Warde	MIT	opto-electronic neuromorphic networks; materials and devices for optical information processing; spatial light modulators and displays	Current research is on the development of: (1) opto-electronic artificial neural network hardware and associated training algorithms to give computers brain-like computing power, and (2) membrane-mirror-based spatial light modulators for optical switching and projection displays. Earlier research contributions are on photorefractive materials, transparent liquid-crystal micro-displays for virtual-reality eyeglasses, and spectro-polarimetric imaging sensors for remote-sensing applications.	395
Robert Dodd	Stanford	neuroscience; neurosurgery; radiology	Dodd's research interests are in cerebral blood vessel reactivity and stroke.	113
Electron Kebebew	Stanford	neuroscience; general surgery;	Dr. Kebebew’s translational and clinical investigations have three main scientific goals: 1) to develop effective therapies for fatal, rare and neglected endocrine cancers, 2) to identify new methods, strategies and technologies for improving the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine neoplasms and the prognostication of endocrine cancers, and 3) to develop methods for precision treatment of endocrine tumors.	79
Winston A. Anderson	Howard University	biology; biomedicine;	His research focused on the subcellular localization of signal transduction activity for proto-oncogene proteins, growth factors, and growth factor receptors and “cross talk between estrogen and growth factors” in uterine endometrium and breast cancer cell lines.	0
Darryl Scriven	Winston-Salem State University	philosophy; humanities;	Dr. Scriven is Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, Business, and Education and the John W. and Anna H. Hanes Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Winston-Salem State University, with the responsibility for 3300 students and 300 FT/PT faculty within 17 Academic Departments, 8 Research Centers, a Fine Arts Gallery, and the Red Sea of Sound Marching Band; and remains a Non-Resident Visiting Scholar at the Tuskegee University National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health Care, and Chair of the Academic Review Committee for the Journal of Healthcare, Science, and the Humanities since 2015.	8
Sossina Haile	Northwestern	material science;	Dr. Haile's overall research goal is to elucidate the relationship between structure, chemistry and properties in electrochemically functional solids, particularly oxides, as relevant to sustainable energy technologies.	341
Ersne Eromo	Harvard	anesthesiology;	Dr. Eromo's research focuses on increasing the effectiveness of medical education and clinical team practices.	90
Oluwaseun Johnson-Akeju	Harvard	anesthesiology;	Dr. Johnson-Akeju's work focuses on developing tools and strategies to optimize post-operative cognitive recovery.	84
Charles Isbell	Georgia Tech	computer science;	Dr. Isabell's lab builds large integrated systems, does research on autonomous agents, interactive entertainment, some aspects of HCI, software engineering, and even programming languages.	115
Halie Debas	UCSF	neuroscience;	Dr. Debas has achieved national recognition as a gastrointestinal investigator and has made original contributions to the physiology, biochemistry, and pathophysiology of gastrointestinal peptide hormones.	2
Russell Joseph	Northwestern	environmental engineering;	Dr. Joseph is interested in computer architecture, microprocessor design for reliability and variability tolerance, and power-aware computing.	118
Ednah Gnang	Johns Hopkins	applied mathematics;	Dr. Gnang's interests research interests include discrete mathematics, graph theory, multilinear algebra, image analysis, and experimental math.	192
Chad Jenkins	University of Michigan	computer science;	The Laboratory for Progress aims to discover methods for computational reasoning and perception that will enable robots to effectively assist people in common human environments, exploring how to make the real world programmable through the control of autonomous robots	195
Rodney Priestley	Princeton	chemical engineering; bioeningeering;	Work in the Priestley Laboratory applies principles of physics, chemistry and engineering towards nanoscale processing and characterization of polymers and soft matter with particular emphasis on thin films, colloids, and nanocomposites	14
LaShunda Anderson Hodges	Alcorn State University	soil and plant science;	Dr. Hodges researches drone agriculture applications, native grass production, phytoremediation of arsenic, and medicinal herbs.	351
Bolanle Famakin	UW Madison	neuroscience; neurology;	Dr. Famakin studies the molecular basis of the role of inflammatory cues in repair and recovery after stroke with the goal of developing novel pharmacotherapies to lessen the burden of stroke and its associated disabilities.	258
Michelle Antoine	NIH	neuroscience;	I research mechanisms of plasticity at the synaptic and circuit level that help stabilize cortical network activity upon environmental insults or intrinsic genetic mutation	334
Kizzmekia S. Corbett	NIH	viral immunology;	A viral immunologist by training, Dr. Corbett’s research interests entail elucidating mechanisms of viral pathogenesis and host immunity as they pertain to vaccine development. Appointed to the NIH Vaccine Research Center in 2014, she now focuses on assessing and improving the immunogenicity of novel vaccine platforms for coronaviruses and influenza.	27
André White	Mount Holyoke College	neuroscience; biology; genetics	Dr. White studies the complex environmental and genetic factors that modulate addictive behaviors in mice.	350
Erick Jones	University of Texas at Arlington	systems engineering; industrial engineering;	Jones' research interests are mainly in the field of RFID and its applications and Lean Six Sigma. However, Jones's research also covers various other topics like Supply Chain Technology, Logistics, Operations Research, Engineering, Training, Transportation and Healthcare.	302
Dereje Agonafer	University of Texas at Arlington	mechanical engineering; aerospace engineering;	Research Interests: o Electronic Packaging: Thermo/Mechanical Challenges in Electronic Systems o Data Center Cooling o 3D Packaging o Thermoelectrics o Microfluidics with Applications in both BioMEMS and Heat Transfer o Nanoelectronics Packaging o Heat Transfer o Microscale Heat Transfer o MEMS Packaging o Refrigeration Cooling o Reliability o Solder Science	156
Tameka Clemons	Meharry Medical College	chemistry; biochemistry;	Clemons' research focuses on exploring the aberrant biochemical signaling networks in beta-cells that leads to cell death in diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease.	140
Lisa L. Barnes	Rush University Medical Center	epidemiology; neurology; psychology	Dr. Barnes studies focus on cultural and genetic risk factors for cognitive decline and Alzheimer's dementia in African Americans	335
Olajide A Williams	Columbia University	neurology;	Dr. Williams is a recognized international leader in stroke education and community-based behavioral intervention research. He is a co-principal investigator and co-director of one of four NIH/NINDS-funded SPIRP U54 Centers for Stroke Disparities Solutions awards and the Principal Investigator of an NIH R01-level award, "RCT to improve stroke symptom recognition and response," which evaluates the effectiveness of "Hip Hop Stroke," an innovative multimedia, school-based stroke education program he developed, that utilizes children as "transmission vectors" of stroke knowledge to their parents and grandparents. He is also the founder of Hip Hop Public Health, a nationally recognized organization that creates and implements multimedia public health interventions that target the youth around the topics of childhood obesity, Alzheimer's disease, and stroke.	205
Whitney Robinson	University of North Carolina	epidemiology;	Robinson specializes in epidemiologic methods for health disparities research. She focuses on how and why processes of obesity and cancer development differ by sex, race, and ethnicity. The theoretical underpinning of her work is the lifecourse framework.	363
Denne Reed	University of Texas at Austin	biological anthropology; paleoanthropology; anatomy	Denne Reed is a paleoanthropologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin who studies the influences of ecology and environment on human adaptation, and behavior. He has conducted paleontological and archaeological field research in East Africa, southern Africa, and Morocco including 12 years of paleoanthropological research in Ethiopia focusing on early human origins. As the director of the Paleo Core project, Dr. Reed is working to integrate paleoanthropological data in order to address broad-scale questions about human evolution and environmental change, and to make the archaeological and fossil records more accessible to researchers, students and the public.	101