Mentors

PERFORM-KUH mentors define the training environment. Approved mentors come from all participating institutions and represent kidney, benign urology, benign hematology, and related scientific areas. The program includes approximately 110 approved mentors with robust research programs, mentoring experience, and research environments sufficient to support trainee success.

PERFORM-KUH mentors participate in structured mentorship, regular trainee meetings, trainee PDP/IDP development, Mentorship Committee processes, program evaluation, and mentor development activities. Mentors with assigned TL1 trainees are expected to participate in formal mentor training or demonstrate completion of an equivalent program.

The individuals below have agreed to act as mentors for PERFORM-KUH. All are conducting research within the NIH domains of kidney, benign urology, or benign hematology.

Prospective trainees interested in utilizing a mentor not listed here might be permissible but requires Program approval. Principally,  the mentor’s research must fall within one of the KUH research domains. Please contact us before moving forward with your potential mentor.

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Charles Abrams, MD ProfessorHematology Platelets, thrombosis and vascular biology Learn More
Juan Alvarez, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Hematopoiesis and stem-cell biology Website
Sandra Amaral, MD, MHS Associate ProfessorKidney Pediatric kidney transplantation and health outcomes Website
Montserrat Anguera, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Epigenetics and X-chromosome biology Website
David Asch, MD, MBA ProfessorKidney Health-care delivery and outcomes research Website
Daria Babushok, MD, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Bone marrow failure and clonal hematopoiesis Website
Craig Bassing, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Lymphocyte development and DNA repair Website
Jason Van Batavia, MD Assistant ProfessorUrology Pediatric urology and urinary tract reconstruction Website
Shelley Berger, PhD ProfessorHematology Epigenetics and chromatin biology Website
Kathrin Bernt, MD Assistant ProfessorHematology Pediatric epigenetic therapies Website
Trinity Bivalacqua, MD, PhD ProfessorUrology Sexual dyfunction Website
Andres Blanco, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Stem-cell and developmental biology Website
Gerd Blobel, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology Epigenetic regulation of Hematopoietic cells Website
Rihab Bouchareb, PhD Assistant ProfessorKidney Acute kidney injury and cardiorenal disease
Lawrence Brass, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology Platelet signaling and thrombosis Website
M. Paula Martinez-Cantarin, MD, MSCE Associate ProfessorKidney CKD, hypertension and clinical nephrology Website
Martin Carroll, MD Hematology Website
Stella Chou, MD ProfessorHematology Red-blood-cell disorders Website
Douglas Cines, MD ProfessorHematology Platelets and immune thrombocytopenia Website
Jordana Cohen, MD, MSCE Kidney Hypertension and CKD Website
Kassa Darge, MD, PhD ProfessorUrology Pediatric genitourinary and abdominal imaging Website
Peter Deak, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology DNA repair and genome stability Website
Laura Dember, MD ProfessorKidney CKD and dialysis access Website
Michelle Denburg, MD, MSCE Kidney Pediatric CKD, mineral metabolism and nephrotic syndrome Website
David Essex, MD ProfessorHematology Platelet biology, coagulation and thrombosis Website
Boopathi Ettickan, PhD Assistant ProfessorUrology Translational therapeutics Website
Yong Fan, PhD Associate ProfessorUrology Medical imaging and artificial intelligence Website
Christopher Forrest, MD, PhD ProfessorKidney Pediatric outcomes, informatics and population health Website
Kevin Foskett, PhD ProfessorKidney Ion channels and epithelial physiology Website
Susan Furth, MD, PhD ProfessorKidney Pediatric chronic kidney disease epidemiology Website
Paul Gadue, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Stem-cell models of hematopoietic disease Website
Heather Marie Gardiner, PhD, MPH ProfessorKidney Kidney donation, transplant equity and health communication Website
Alessandro Gardini, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Transcriptional regulation Website
Peter Gaskill, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Inflammation, macrophage biology and HIV-associated disease Website
Saar Gill, MD, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Cell therapy Website
Yury Gogotsi, PhD ProfessorHematology Nanomaterials and translational bioengineering Website
Lawrence Goldfinger, PhD ProfessorHematology Platelet signaling and vascular biology Website
Roger Greenberg, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology DNA-damage response Website
Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD ProfessorUrology Genomics and precision medicine Website
Malay Haldar, MD, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Myeloid-cell biology Website