Senior Sponsors
Highly productive Vanderbilt faculty will serve as Senior Sponsors who will proactively nominate, recommend, and advance V-FIRST faculty to support their paths to independence, promotion, and tenure.
*Click faculty member’s name for additional details*
- Muktar Aliyu, MD, DrPH, MPH (Health Policy)
- Jennifer (Piper) Below, PhD (Medicine)
- Jada Benn Torres, PhD (Anthropology)
- Walter Chazin, PhD (Biochemistry)
- Roger Colbran, PhD (Molecular Physiology and Biophysics)
- Laurie Cutting, PhD (Special Ed)
- Manus Donahue, PhD (Radiology)
- Kathy Friedman, PhD (Biological Sci)
- Paul Harris, PhD (Biomedical Informatics)
- Tina Iverson, PhD (Pharmacology)
- Ege Kavalali, PhD (Pharmacology)
- Doug McMahon, PhD (Biological Sci)
- Houra Merrikh, PhD (Biochemistry)
- Jeff Rathmell, PhD (Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology)
- Ann Richmond, PhD (Pharmacology)
- Antonis Rokas, PhD (Biological Sci)
- Christianne Roumie, MD (Medicine)
- Warren Taylor, MD, MHSc (Psychiatry)
- Digna Velez-Edwards, PhD (Obstetrics)
- Lorraine Ware, MD (Medicine)
- Duane Watson, PhD (Psychological Sciences)
NextGen Mentors
Next Generation (NextGen) Mentors are late-early mid-career faculty members who are on a strong upward trajectory and who will support V-FIRST faculty by providing guidance.
- Ray Blind, PhD (Medicine)
- Mariana Byndloss, PhD (Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology)
- Erin Calipari, PhD (Pharmacology)
- Lea Davis, PhD (Medicine)
- Ivelin Georgiev, PhD (Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology)
- Carlos Grijalva, MD, MPH (Health Policy)
- Timothy Hohman, PhD (Neurology)
- Rebecca Ihrie, PhD (Cell and Developmental Biology)
- Lauren Jackson, PhD (Biological Sci)
- Annet Kirabo, DVM, MSc, PhD (Clin Pharm, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics)
- John Koethe, MD (Medicine)
- Autumn Kujawa, PhD (Psychological Sciences)
- Marjan Rafat, PhD (Biomedical Engineering)
