Quazim Alayo, MBBS, MSc, MMSc
Clinical Fellow, Medicine-Gastroenterology
2025 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Gwendolyn Randolph, PhD
Title of Project: Elucidating the role of B Cell-Derived LT⍺ in Sarcopenia Prevention in Crohn’s Disease
Danielle Alfano, MD
Instructor, Pediatrics – Newborn Medicine
2020 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Juliane Bubeck-Wardenburg, MD,PhD
Project Title: ADAM10 and endothelial dysfunction in sepsis
Amit Bery, MD
Instructor, Medicine – Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
2023 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Daniel Kreisel, MD, PhD
Title of Project: Role of interleukin-1 beta in the prevention of lung allograft rejection
Whitney Brandt, MD
Assistant Professor, Surgery – Cardiothoracic
2025 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Jason Weber, PhD
Title of Project: DExH-box 9 (DHX9) in lung squamous cell carcinoma
David M Brogan, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Orthopedic Surgery
2020 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Samuel Achilefu, MD
Project Title: Intra-operative characterization of traumatic nerve injury using molecular probes and near-infrared fluorescence
David F Butler, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Critical Care Medicine
2024 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Andrew Yoo, PhD
Title of Project: Age-dependent mechanisms of hypoxic-ischemic/reperfusion injury in human neurons
R Alex Harbison, MD, MS
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology—Head & Neck Surgery
2024 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Guangyong Peng, MD, PhD
Title of Project: Polyamide transport and anti-tumor immunity in head and neck cancer
Miriam Jacobs, MD
Fellow – Medicine, Oncology
2022 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Todd Fehniger, MD, PhD
Project Title: Advancing memory-like natural killer cell therapy development for solid tumors
Carol M Kao, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
2024 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Juliane Bubeck-Wardenburg, MD, PhD
Title of Project: Prevention of S. aureus infection through maternal immunization
Miriam Kim, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine – BMT
2020 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: John DiPersio, MD,PhD
Project Title: Defining the contribution of normal and malignant myeloid cells to chimeric antigen receptor T-cell function