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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Ophir Shalem, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Functional genomics and CRISPR screening Website
Michael Shashaty, MD, MSCE Associate ProfessorKidney Acute kidney injury and critical-care nephrology Website
Junwei Shi, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Epigenetic regulation Website
Rebecca Simmons, MD ProfessorKidney Developmental origins of metabolic disease Website
Tomasz Skorski, MD, PhD, DSc ProfessorHematology DNA repair Website
Ariana Smith, MD ProfessorUrology Female pelvic medicine and reconstructive surgery Website
Nathaniel Snyder, PhD, MPH Associate ProfessorKidney Metabolism, metabolomics and chronic disease Website
Wenchao Song, PhD ProfessorKidney B-cell signaling and immune regulation Website
Nancy Speck, PhD ProfessorHematology Hematopoietic stem-cell development Website
Kara Spiller, PhD ProfessorHematology Macrophage biology, biomaterials and tissue regeneration Website
Agus Surachman, PhD Assistant ProfessorKidney Social determinants, stress and chronic disease Website
Katalin Susztak, MD, PhD ProfessorKidney Kidney fibrosis and single-cell genomics Website
Kai Tan, PhD ProfessorHematology Computational genomics and gene regulation Website
Gregory Tasian, MD, MSc, MSCE Associate ProfessorUrology Pediatric kidney stones and urologic epidemiology Website
Andrei Thomas-Tikhonenko Hematology
Alexis Thompson, MD, MPH ProfessorHematology Sickle cell disease and thalassemia Website
Sarah Tishkoff, PhD ProfessorKidney Human genetics and population genomics Website
Wei Tong, PhD ProfessorHematology Hematopoiesis Website
Golnaz Vahedi, PhD Associate ProfessorHematology T-cell epigenomics and immune regulation Website
Robert Vonderheide, MD, DPhil ProfessorHematology Immunology and immunotherapy Website
Julia Warren, PhD Assistant ProfessorHematology Hematopoietic development and blood disorders Website
David Wiest
Xiao-Feng Yang, MD, PhD ProfessorHematology Inflammation, immunology and cardiovascular disease Website
Stephen Zderic, MD ProfessorUrology Bladder physiology and pediatric urology Website
Jarcy Zee, PhD Associate ProfessorKidney Biostatistics and kidney-disease outcomes Website
Justin Ziemba, MD Associate ProfessorUrology Kidney stones and endourology Website