Faculty

All of the faculty associated with the BMS graduate program are listed below. Click on a faculty name to view a detailed description of an individual research program, contact information, recent publications and links to other relevant websites. Each of our faculty is associated with one or more of our eight thematic areas; click on the thematic area name listed by each of our faculty to read more about the research going on in that area, and to view a list of all faculty associated with that thematic area.
 

Jennifer Grandis, MD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Research Summary: 
Translational Head and Neck Cancer Research

Bryan Greenhouse, MD, MA

Mentorship Development: 

11/10/20    Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab

Lea Grinberg, MD, PhD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Neurobiology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
None
Research Summary: 
Early stages of development of neurodegenerative diseases in humans. Dr. Grinberg employs a combination of well characterized postmortem human brain tissue, Neurons derived from IPSc lines and advanced methods of imaging processing.

Carol Gross, PhD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Virology & Microbial Pathogenesis
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Research Summary: 
Regulation of Gene Expression

Carl Grunfeld, MD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Immunology
Research Summary: 
Metabolic Changes and the Host Response to Infection

Saptarsi Haldar, MD, BS

Primary Thematic Area: 
Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Tissue / Organ Biology & Endocrinology
Research Summary: 
Gene Regulation and Epigenetics in Cardiovascular and Metabolic Physiology/Disease

Corey Harwell, PhD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Neurobiology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Research Summary: 
Molecular regulation of neural cell fate and circuit assembly

Akiko Hata, PhD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Cancer Biology & Cell Signaling
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Research Summary: 
TGFbeta family of signaling pathway

Peng He, PhD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Developmental & Stem Cell Biology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Research Summary: 
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics and multiomics; computational biology; gene regulation in cell fate decision
Mentorship Development: 

5/2024 - Assess Yourself: How Ready Are You To Manage Your Mentee/Employee's Productivity?
11/2024 - The 4 Touchstones of a High Functioning Mentoring Relationship

Judith Hellman, MD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Immunology
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Vascular & Cardiac Biology
Research Summary: 
Innate Immune Pathways and the Endothelium in Inflammatory Critical Illness
Mentorship Development: 

11/2020 - Optimizing the Efficiency of Your Lab
5/2021 - Sharpening your Mentoring Skills (SyMS)
12/2022 - Faculty Development Training: Faculty as People Managers

Timothy Henrich, MD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Virology & Microbial Pathogenesis
Secondary Thematic Area: 
Immunology
Research Summary: 
Immunmodulatory, cytoreductive chemotherapeutic and stem cell transplantation approaches to HIV-1 cure. Design and implementation of novel nano/microtechnologies to characterize viral reservoirs.

Ryan Hernandez, PhD

Primary Thematic Area: 
Human Genetics
Secondary Thematic Area: 
None
Research Summary: 
We study patterns of human genetic variation using large-scale data and the tools of population genomics.
Mentorship Development: 

3/2020 - Promoting Student Mental Health:A Presentation and Discussion (Staff and Faculty)    
4/2020 - Effective Strategies for IDPs    
4/2020 - Mental Health in a Pandemic: Q&A for Faculty    
2/2021 - Three Truths and Three Tries: Facing and Overcoming Critical Social Justice Challenges at the Micro, Mezzo, and Macro Levels    
2/2021 - DEI Champions Training
2/2021 - UCSF School of Medicine Differences Matter Initiative
10/2021 - Sharpening Your Research Mentoring Skills
5/2022 - Dis/ability Awareness Training
11/2022 - ...Inclusively: Why, How & Right Bleeping Now
11/2022 - Faculty Development Training: INclusivity is a Design Question. Which Practices Will You Use?
4/2024 - Supporting Learners in Distress

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