Research Concentration Areas and Training Mentors
The MD/PhD program allows students to integrate their medical education with intense research training by selecting a training mentor from one of the following research concentration areas.
Neuroscience, neuropharmacology
- Seena Ajit, PhD
- Jessica Ausborn, PhD
- Peter Baas, PhD
- Jacqueline Barker, PhD
- Jessica R. Barson, PhD
- John Bethea, PhD (COAS)
- Vikas Bhandawat, PhD (BME)
- Marie-Pascale Côté, PhD
- Timothy Cunningham, PhD
- Simon Danner, PhD
- Megan R. Detloff, PhD
- Kimberly Dougherty, PhD
- Felice Elefant, PhD (COAS)
- Rodrigo España, PhD
- Itzhak Fischer, PhD
- Wen-Jun Gao, MD, PhD
- Denise Garcia, PhD (COAS)
- Peter J. Gaskill, PhD
- Simon Giszter, PhD
- Edward J. Hartsough, PhD
- Joel Horwitz, PhD
- Joshua Jackson, PhD
- Zachary Klase, PhD
- Sandhya Kortagere, PhD
- Michael Lane, PhD
- Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD
- Andréia C.K. Mortensen, PhD
- Ole Mortensen, PhD
- Sean O'Donnell, PhD (COAS)
- Liang Qiang, MD, PhD
- Ramesh Raghupathi, PhD
- Ilya A. Rybak, PhD
- Veronica J. Tom, PhD
- Kazuhito Toyooka, PhD
- Catherine Von Reyn, PhD (BME)
- Dong Wang, PhD
Cancer biology, experimental oncology
- Jonathan Chernoff, MD, PhD** (FCCC)
- Edna Cukierman, PhD (FCCC)
- Alessandro Fatatis, MD, PhD
- Erica Golemis, PhD (FCCC)
- Eishi Noguchi, PhD
- Mauricio Reginato, PhD
- Todd Strochlic, VMD, PhD
Immunology and infectious disease
- Carol Artlett, PhD
- Joris Beld, PhD
- James Burns, PhD
- Irwin Chaiken, PhD
- Garth D. Ehrlich, PhD
- Peter J. Gaskill, PhD
- Elias El Haddad, PhD
- Pooja Jain, PhD
- Stephen Jennings, PhD
- Sandhya Kortagere, PhD
- Fred Krebs, PhD
- Kirsten Larson, PhD
- Julio Martín-García, PhD
- Joshua Chang Mell, PhD
- Olimpia Meucci, MD, PhD
- Sonia Navas-Martin, PhD
- Michael Nonnemacher, PhD
- Vanessa Pirrone, PhD
- Akhil Vaidya, PhD
- Brian Wigdahl, PhD
Medical physiology and biochemistry
Bioengineering
- Jessica Ausborn, PhD
- Hasan Ayaz (BME)
- Kenneth A. Barbee, PhD (BME)
- Vikas Bhandawat, PhD (BME)
- Simon Danner, PhD
- Kimberly Dougherty, PhD
- Simon Giszter, PhD
- Chris Rodell (BME)
- Gail Rosen (COE)
- Ilya A. Rybak, PhD
- Kara Spiller, PhD (BME)
- Wei Sun (COE)
- Amy Throckmorton, PhD (BME)
- Catherine von Reyn, PhD (BME)
- Margaret A. Wheatley, PhD (BME)
- Ming Xiao, PhD (BME)
- Yinghui Zhong, PhD (BME)
** Physician's practice is independent of Drexel University.
BME: Drexel University School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems
COAS: Drexel University College of Arts and Sciences
COE: Drexel University College of Engineering
FCCC: Fox Chase Cancer Center
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