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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Meera Harhay, MD, MPH, MSCE Associate ProfessorKidney Dialysis outcomes, transplantation and health services research Website
Lawrence Holzman, MD ProfessorKidney Podocyte biology and glomerular disease Website
Jing Huang, PhD Associate ProfessorUrology Developmental and stem-cell biology Website
Alex Hughes, PhD Assistant ProfessorKidney Bioengineering and kidney models Website
Christopher Hunter, PhD ProfessorKidney Host-pathogen immunity Website
Neil Johnson, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology DNA repair, BRCA1 biology and therapy resistance Website
Ben Samelson-Jones, MD, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Gene therapy to treat bleedign disorders Website
Kellie Ann Jurado, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Maternal-fetal immunology Website
Mark Kahn, MD ProfessorKidney Lymphatic vascular biology Website
Brendan Keating, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Statistical genetics Website
Mohsin Khan, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Cardiac regeneration and stem-cell biology Website
Junhyong Kim, PhD ProfessorKidney Computational biology Website
Peter Klein, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology Wnt signaling Website
Satya Kunapuli, PhD ProfessorHematology Platelet activation and thrombosis Website
Peter Kurre, MD ProfessorHematology Hematopoietic stem cells and bone marrow failure Website
Benjamin Laskin, MD, MS Associate ProfessorKidney Pediatric nephrology and transplant-associated kidney injury Website
John R. Lee, MD, MS Associate ProfessorKidney Kidney disease and microbiome Website
Matthew H. Levine, MD, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Kidney and pancreas transplantation Website
Kathy Fange Liu, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology RNA biology Website
Peisong Ma, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Stem-cell biology Website
Ronen Marmorstein, PhD ProfessorHematology Structural biology and epigenetic enzymes Website
Steven McKenzie, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology Thrombosis, platelet biology and hematology Website
Jorge Henao-Mejia, MD, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Microbiome and immunity Website
Peter Merkel, MD, MPH ProfessorKidney Vasculitis and clinical epidemiology Website
Sara Meyer Associate ProfessorHematology Hematopoietic stem cells Website
Kevin Meyers, MB, BCh ProfessorKidney Pediatric hypertension and kidney transplantation Website
Katherine Nathanson, MD ProfessorKidney Cancer genetics and inherited susceptibility Website
Diane Newman, DNP Adjunct ProfessorUrology Urinary incontinence and pelvic-floor health Website
Tim Olson, MD, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Bone marrow failure and clonal hematopoiesis Website
Vikram Paralkar, MD Assistant ProfessorHematology RNA biology Website
Warren Pear, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology T-cell development Website
Liming Pei, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Metabolism and mitochondrial biology Website
Mortimer Poncz, MD ProfessorHematology Platelet biology and thrombosis Website
Ziaur Rahman, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Autoimmunity and B-cell biology Website
Arjun Raj, PhD ProfessorHematology Single-cell biology and gene-expression variability Website
A. Koneti Rao, MD ProfessorHematology Inherited platelet disorders and hemostasis Website
Stefano Rivella, PhD ProfessorHematology Red-cell disorders and iron metabolism Website
Ben Samelson-Jones, MD, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology Gene therapy to treat bleedign disorders Website
Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD Associate ProfessorKidney Genetic causes of kidney disease Website
Lisa Schwartz, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Pediatric psychosocial outcomes and survivorship Website