Faculty

DBBS mentors and educators are key to our training mission. Those who serve as primary mentors are DBBS Program Members, and others who participate in the educational mission are General Members. Learn about DBBS Faculty Membership »

To provide a supportive learning environment for our trainees, many DBBS-affiliated faculty have completed eight or more hours of CIMER-based mentorship training with a trained facilitator, as indicated below with a profile badge.

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Gregory Grant, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Relationship of structure to function in allosteric control mechanisms

Key words
protein structure, protein function, allosteric regulation, enzymology, biochemistry

Abby Green, MD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
The etiology of mutagenesis and genome instability in pediatric cancers

Key words
leukemia, pediatric cancer, DNA damage, DNA replication, hematopoiesis

Michael Greenberg, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
The Greenberg lab seeks to understand the molecular and cellular biophysics of heart disease, with the goal of engineering disease models and precision therapeutics

Key words
heart disease, single molecule, optical trapping, cardiac muscle, stem cells, tissue engineering, cytoskeletal molecular motors, mechanobiology, computational modeling, precision medicine

Eric Greer, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Cancer Biology
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
Deciphering the molecular mechanisms of epigenetics and how when this goes awry diseases arise

Key words
Epigenetics, Transgenerational, Imprinting, Evolution, Multicellularity, Cancer, Tumorigenesis, Epitranscriptomics

Malachi Griffith, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Improving our understanding of human disease biology and the development of personalized medicine strategies using genomics and informatics technologies

Key words
genomics, bioinformatics, data mining, immunogenomics, precision medicine, personalized medicine, cancer vaccines, and cancer research

Obi Griffith, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Development of personalized medicine strategies for cancer using genomic technologies

Key words
bioinformatics, machine learning, cancer, genomics, immunogenomics, precision oncology

Whitney Grither, MD,PhD

Assistant Professor (8/1/2026)

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary

Key words

Michael Gross, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
Development and application of mass spectrometry in biophysics, biochemistry, and medicine

Key words
amyloid beta biophysics, biochemistry, biophysics, mass spectrometry, protein-protein interaction, protein structure,

Richard Gross, MD, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Molecular Cell Biology
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
The molecular mechanisms through which biologic membranes participate in cellular activation processes

Key words
phospholipase A2, diabetes, obesity, receptor, myocardial ischemia, lipid metabolism

Andy Groves, PhD

Professor and Head of the Department of Developmental Biology

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Neurosciences
Computational and Systems Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
We work on what induces the inner ear in the first place, how the sensory organs of the ear acquire their exquisite pattern, and whether it will ever be possible to regenerate the sensory hair cells of the inner ear in the deaf and hard-of-hearing.

Key words
inner ear, development, regeneration, sensory neuroscience, balance, deafness, embryo, transcription factors, epigenetics, tunicates, squid

C. Charles Gu, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Human and Statistical Genetics
Computational and Systems Biology

Research summary
Statistical genetics and bioinformatics, high-dimensional data analysis and complex systems modeling, developing novel methodologies for detecting complex disease genes and characterizing their function

Key words
genetic epidemiology, statistical genetics

Caroline Guglielmetti, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
We develop innovative magnetic resonance (MR) and position emission tomography (PET) imaging approaches to monitor neuroinflammation, neurodegeneration and repair mechanisms in neurological disorders

Key words
Metabolic imaging, hyperpolarized 13C MRI, positron tomography emission (PET) imaging, neurological disorders, cell tracking, multiple sclerosis, microglia, myelin, immune cells

Farshid Guilak, PhD

Mildred B. Simon Research Professor

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Immunology

Research summary
Application of stem cells and mechanobiology in the onset, progression, and treatment of osteoarthritis and other joint diseases.

Key words
cartilage, obesity, osteoarthritis, mechanobiology, bioengineering, stem cells, iPSCs

Aditi Gupta, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

Research summary

Key words

David Gutmann, MD, PhD

Donald O. Schnuck Family Professor

Program affiliation
Neurosciences
Cancer Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology

Research summary
Leveraging neurogenetic disorders to study normal brain development, cancer, and autism

Key words
pediatric brain cancer, brain development, neuroimmunology, cancer neuroscience, autism, hiPSC engineering, genetically engineered mice

Carmen Halabi, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Molecular Cell Biology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Research summary
Understanding how the extracellular matrix (ECM) contributes to normal arterial development and how its disruptionleads to abnormal vascular development and disease

Key words
Vascular biology, extracellular matrix, elastin, aneurysms, hypertension

Kathleen Hall, PhD

Professor

Program affiliation
Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Research summary
We study RNA folding and RNA binding to proteins

Key words
RNA, NMR, RNA:protein interactions, fluorescence, thermodynamics

Dennis Hallahan, MD

Professor and Head of the Department of Radiation Oncology

Program affiliation
Cancer Biology
Molecular Cell Biology

Research summary
The mechanisms of cell death in normal tissues during cancer therapy

Key words
cancer, cell death, drug delivery, radiation, signal transduction

Gabriel Haller, PhD

Associate Professor

Program affiliation
Human and Statistical Genetics
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Computational and Systems Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
Genetic underpinnings of neurological/neurosurgical disorders

Key words
rare variants, Chiari I malformation, human genetics, neurosurgery, Deep Mutation Scanning, Mutagenesis, Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy

Claudia Han, PhD

Assistant Professor

Program affiliation
Immunology
Molecular Genetics and Genomics
Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology
Neurosciences

Research summary
The Han lab investigates microglia and brain macrophage phenotypes in neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative contexts through the lens of epigenomics and transcriptomics. 

Key words
microglia, neurodevelopment, epigenetics, transcriptomics, neurodegeneration

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