
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

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

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

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

Iris Lee, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow – Medicine, Rheumatology
2022 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Peggy Kendall, MD and Christine Pham, MD
Project Title: Complement-mediated regulation of B-cell activation in autoimmunity

Kim Liss, MD
Instructor, Pediatrics – GI
2020 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Brian Fink, PhD
Project Title: Importance of lipid metabolism in steatotic livers exposed to ischemia repercussion injury

Mary (Maggie) Mullen, MD
Fellow- Obstetrics & Gynecology, Gynecological Oncology
2021 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Katherine Fuh, MD, PhD
Project Title: Utilizing DNA Damage to Identify and Target Chemoresistance in Ovarian Cancer

Lila Nolan, MD
Instructor – Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine
2023 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Megan Baldridge, MD, PhD
Title of Project: Interferon signaling in microbiota-mediated regulation of bone marrow hematopoiesis

Marilia Pinzone, MD
Clinical Fellow, Medicine – Infectious Diseases
2023 Dean’s Scholar
Mentor: Liang Shan, PhD
Title of Project: Low-level viremia as a driver of myeloid immune activation and chronic inflammation in HIV infection