Faculty and Staff | GMU College of Science

Faculty

Name: Ancha Baranova
Job Title: Professor
Email: abaranov@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8400
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 312G

Name: Vikas Chandhoke
Job Title: Professor
Email: vchandho@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-5169
Office Location: Research Hall

Name: Karl Fryxell
Job Title: Associate Professor
Email: kfryxell@gmu.edu
Phone Number: (703) 993-1069
Office Location: 305 Discovery Hall, SciTech, MSN: 1J1

Name: Ramin Hakami
Job Title: Associate Professor
Email: rhakami@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-7084
Office Location: 1022 Biomedical Research Lab, SciTech, MSN: 1J5

Name: M. Saleet Jafri
Job Title: Professor
Director, Interdiscplinary Program in Neuroscience
Email: sjafri@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8420
Office Location: Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Room 234, MS 2A1

Name: Nadine Kabbani
Job Title: Associate Professor
Associate Chair for Research, Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience
Email: nkabbani@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-4406
Office Location: Krasnow Institute, Room 233, MSN 2A1

Name: Fatah Kashanchi
Job Title: Professor, Virology
Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Virology
Email: fkashanc@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-9160
Office Location: Discovery Hall, Room 182, MSN 1H8

Name: Dmitri Klimov
Job Title: Professor
Email: dklimov@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8395
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 328B, MSN 5B3

Name: Frank Krueger
Job Title: Professor
Email: fkrueger@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-4358
Office Location: Mail Stop 2A1

Name: Lance Liotta
Job Title: Professor
Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Email: lliotta@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-9444
Office Location: 2005 Inst, Adv Biomedical Research, SciTech, MSN: 1A9

Name: Christopher Lockhart
Job Title: Research Assistant Professor
Email: clockha2@gmu.edu
Office Location: Colgan Hall, 328E, MSN 5B3, Science & Tech Campus

Name: Alessandra Luchini
Job Title: Professor
Email: aluchini@gmu.edu
Phone Number: (703) 993-8945
Office Location: 1013 Inst, Adv Biomedical Research, SciTech, MSN: 1A9

Name: Emanuel Petricoin
Job Title: Professor
Co-Director, Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine
Email: epetrico@gmu.edu
Phone Number: (703) 993-8646
Office Location: 2006 Inst, Adv Biomedical Research, SciTech, MSN: 1A9

Name: Mariaelena Pierobon
Job Title: Associate Professor
Email: mpierobo@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-9839
Office Location: Institute for Advanced Biomedical Research

Name: Donald Seto
Job Title: Professor
Email: dseto@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8403
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 325, MSN 5B3

Name: Jeff Solka
Job Title: Adjunct Professor
Email: jsolka@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 540-809-9799
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 308

Name: Aman Ullah
Job Title: Assistant Professor
Email: aullah3@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-7182
Office Location: MSN 5B3

Name: Iosif Vaisman
Job Title: Professor
Director, School of Systems Biology
Email: ivaisman@gmu.edu
Cell Phone: 703-993-8431
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 312A, MSN 5B3

Name: Monique Van Hoek
Job Title: Professor (Microbiology and Infectious Diseases)
Associate Director of Research, School of Systems Biology
Email: mvanhoek@gmu.edu
Phone Number: email preferred
Office Location: Discovery Hall, Room 156D, MSN 1H8

Name: Yuntao Wu
Job Title: Professor
Email: ywu8@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-4299
Office Location: Discovery Hall, Room 306

Emeritus Faculty

Name: Serguei Popov
Job Title: Professor Emeritus

Name: Valery Soyfer
Job Title: Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Phone Number: (703) 993-2180
Office Location: Colgan Hall, RM 312C

Name: James Willett
Job Title: Professor Emeritus
Phone Number: 703-993-8311
Office Location: Colgan Hall, RM 312C

Affiliate Faculty

Name: Nasrin Afzal
Job Title: Scientist, Genmab US Inc., Princeton, NJ

Name: Adriana Alibini

Name: Fahad Almsned
Job Title: Director, Statistics and Predictive Modelling, Eastern Health Cluster, Saudi Arabia

Name: Lamya Alomair

Name: Jill Barnholtz-Sloan
Job Title: Associate Director for the Informatics and Data Science Program at the NCI Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT)
Senior Intramural Investigator, NCI Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG)

Name: Feras Batarseh
Job Title: Associate Professor, Department of Biological Systems Engineering (BSE), College of Engineering, Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA.

Name: Todd Bell
Job Title: Professor, Department of Veterinary Pathology College of Veterinary Medicine Iowa State University of Science and Technology Ames, IA

Name: Elke Bergmann-Leitner
Job Title: Chief, Immunology Core/WRAIR and Research Professor Dept. Medicine/USUHS

Name: Aybike Birerdinc
Job Title: Research Assistant Professor
Email: abirerdi@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 571-215-6793
Office Location: MSN 5B3

Name: Carsten Bonnemann
Job Title: Chief, Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, Senior Investigator and Acting Chief, Neurogenetics Branch, NINDS, NIH
Adjunct Investigator, Medical Genetics Branch, NHGRI, NIH
Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Attending Physician, Univ of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
CHOP, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Center, Bethesda, MD

Name: Steven Bowers

Name: Jacquelyn Brown
Job Title: Assistant Research Professor, Drug Discovery Institute, University of Pittsburgh

Name: Andrew Campbell
Job Title: Director Comprehensive Sickle Cell Disease Program, Children’s National Medical Center

Name: Hongbao Cao

Name: Massimo Caputo
Job Title: Biomedical Science Department, Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 33431

Name: Matthew Carrano
Job Title: Curator of Dinosauria (Research Geologist, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum Of Natural History (NMNH), Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC

Name: Trevor Charles
Job Title: Professor, Department of Biology University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Name: Charles Chen
Job Title: Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, Massachusetts

Name: Emily Chew
Job Title: Director, Division of Epidemiology and Clinical Applications, NEI/NIIH

Name: David Cohen
Job Title: Research Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Commonwealth University

Name: Thomas Conrads

Name: Jonas de Almeida
Job Title: Senior Investigator, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Chief Data Scientist, Rockville, MD

Name: Jacobus de Waard’
Job Title: Professor. Faculty of Medicine, Central University of Venezuela, Caracas
Head. Department of Tuberculosis, Biomedical Institute, Caracas
Associate Researcher: University of the Americas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador

Name: Ranadhir Dey
Job Title: Biologist, Laboratory of Emerging Pathogens (LEP), Division of Transfusion Transmitted Diseases (DETTD), Office of Blood Research and Review (OBRR), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA, Silver Spring, MD 20993

Name: Tobin Dickerson

Name: Shyam Dumre
Job Title: Associate Professor, Central Department of Microbiology, Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur, Kathmandu, NEPAL

Name: James Estep
Job Title: Director of Laboratory Services and Senior Scientist, Inova Health System; Assistant Professor, Northern Virginia Community College

Name: Claudia Fredolini
Job Title: Researcher and Head of the Unit of Affinity Proteomics Stockholm
Co-Director and Platform Coordinator Officer at the platform of Clinical Proteomics and Immunology Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden

Name: Claudia Freeborne-Brinton
Job Title: Chief Executive Officer, Freeborne Health Advising LLC

Name: Sreenivas Gannavaram

Name: Patrick Gillevet
Job Title: Professor and Director
Associate Dean of Research
Email: pgilleve@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-1057
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 426, MSN 4D4

Name: Robert Gilman
Job Title: Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Name: Maureen Goodenow
Job Title: Assoc. Director for HIV/AIDS and Director, Office of AIDS Research - Laboratory Chief, Molecular HIV and Host Interaction Section, NIAD National Institutes of Health

Name: Geraldine Grant
Job Title: Associate Professor
Chair, Department of Biology
Email: ggrant1@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993 1031
Office Location: Exploratory Hall, Room 1200

Name: Dale Greenwalt
Job Title: Volunteer/Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology NMNH, Washington, D.C.

Name: Markus Hafner
Job Title: Senior Investigator, NIAMS/NIH, Bethesda, MD

Name: Amanda Haymond Still
Job Title: Research Assistant Professor
Email: ahaymond@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 540-878-0144
Office Location: Institute for Advance Biomedical Research, Room 1025s

Name: Marissa Howard
Job Title: Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Email: mhowar13@gmu.edu

Name: Tania Huedo-Medina
Job Title: Distinguished Research Professor Ikerbasque Research Foundation and Department of Clinical, Health Psychology, and Research Methods, School of Psychology, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Name: Sergey Iordanskiy
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Molecular Therapeutics, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda MD

Name: John Jessup

Name: Donald Johann
Job Title: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS), Little Rock, AR Associate Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Informatics

Name: Sinu John
Job Title: Staff Scientist, Signaling Systems Section, Laboratory of Immune System Biology National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD

Name: Kylene Kehn-Hall

Name: Amy Klion
Job Title: Senior Clinical Investigator, Tenured, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Name: Urszula Krzych
Job Title: Chief, Department of Cellular Immunology, Malaria Vaccine Branch –Biologic Research and Development, U.S. Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD

Name: Bengt Ljungquists
Job Title: Senior Data Scientist, Nextonic Solutions

Name: Donald Lo
Job Title: Director of Medicines Development European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine (EATRIS) and Scientific Lead The European Platform for Medicines Repurposing (REMEDi4ALL)

Name: Paolo Lusso
Job Title: Chief, Viral Pathogenesis Section, Laboratory of Immunoregulation, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Name: Ganiraju Manyam

Name: Ekaterina Marakasova

Name: Majid Masso

Name: Sabine Matou-Nasri
Job Title: Senior research Scientist, Medical Genomics Research Department, KAIMRC

Name: Anatoly Mayburd

Name: Katrin Mayer-Barber
Job Title: Earl Stadtman Tenure Track Investigator Chief, Inflammation & Innate Immunity Unit, NIAD, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology & Microbiology, Bethesda, MD

Name: Ilya Mazo

Name: Rohini Mehta

Name: Robert Molestina

Name: Kevin Morris
Job Title: Professor and Director, Griffith The Cell and Gene Therapy Group, Menzies Health Institute School of Pharmacology and Medical Sciences, Griffith University, QLD, Australia

Name: Myong Ho Nam
Job Title: Medical Director, Inova Schar Cancer Center Laboratory and Inova Laboratories, Fairfax, VA

Name: Gabriel Parra
Job Title: Principal Investigator, Division of Viral Products (DVP), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), Food and Drugs Administration (FDA)

Name: Victoria Polonis

Name: Andrea Quattrini
Job Title: Research Zoologist, Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History, DC Curator of Anthozoa, Ecology and Evolution of Corals and Associated Communities

Name: Harsha Rajasimha

Name: Yvonne Reid
Job Title: Manager/Scientist, Cell Biology Program, ATCC

Name: Gurdeep Singh
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Physiology, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA
Assistant Professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA

Name: John Sleasman
Job Title: Medical Director, Duke University Medical Center, Director, Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic & Research Center for Primary Immune Deficiency Diseases, Durham, NC

Name: Maria Stepanova

Name: Todd Taylor

Name: Dougal Tervo
Job Title: Group Leader, Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience (MCN), Janelia Research Campus, Ashburn, VA

Name: James Vergilio

Name: Boris Veytsman

Name: Raymond Wadlow
Job Title: Co-Director, Gastrointestinal Oncology Research, Inova Schar Cancer Institute, Fairfax VA

Name: Meredith Yeager

Name: Li Yin
Job Title: Staff Scientist, Molecular HIV Host Interaction Section (MHHIS) National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Disease (NIAID), NIH, Bethesda, MD 20814

Name: Jung-Ho Youn
Job Title: Molecular Biologist, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology Service, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health

Administrative Faculty and Staff

Name: Christopher Ryan
Job Title: Computer Systems Administrator
Email: cryan1@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8394
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 310, MSN 5B3

Name: Diane St. Germain
Job Title: Graduate Student Services Coordinator
Email: dstgerma@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-4263
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 312D, MSN 5B3

Name: Monique Sweeney
Job Title: Administrative Assistant
Email: binf@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8449
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 312, MSN 5B3

Name: Andrea Nikoi
Job Title: Director, SSB Finance and HR
Email: anikoi@gmu.edu
Phone Number: 703-993-8383
Office Location: Colgan Hall, Room 312E, MSN 5B3