Faculty Mentors
The following lists of Faculty Mentors include those who participated in the programs in 2012. To learn more about research conducted by these investigators and their expertise, click on the nmae of the investigator. This will direct you to their entry in our Penn State Profile. The faculty participating in the 2012 programs will be listed when this information becomes available.
SURIP Faculty Mentors
| NAME | DESCRIPTOR |
| James Connor | Iron Homeostasis and Neural Pathology |
| Rebecca Craven | Virus Assembly Mechanisms |
| Hank Donahue | |
| Sergei Grigoryev | Chromatin Structure and Function |
| Susan Hafenstein | Cryo-Electron Microscopy Structural Studies of Virus and Host Protein Interactions |
| Greogory Holmes | |
| Jim Jefferson | Translational Control of Gene Expression in Skeletal Muscle and Systemic Metabolism |
| Leslie Parent | |
| Christopher Siedlecki | Protein Function at Biomaterial Interfaces |
| Alberto Travagli | Central Control of Gastrointestinal Functions |
AHA-SURF - Faculty Mentors
Track 1 - Circulatory Control and Hypertension
| Gregory Holmes | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Marc Kaufman | Anesthesiology |
| Urs Leuenberger | Cardiology |
| Jianhua Li | Cardiology |
| Lawrence Sinoway | Cardiology |
| Christopher Sciamanna | Internal Medicine |
| Sean Stocker | Physiology |
Track 2 - Renal Function & Injury
| Vernon Chinchilli | Public Health Sciences |
| Alaa Awad | Nephrology |
| W. Brian Reeves | Nephrology |
Track 3 - Cardiac Physiology & Heart Failure
| Charles Lang | Physiology |
| Omar Quintero | Physiology |
| Gerson Rosenberg | Surgery |
| Christopher Yengo | Physiology |
Track 4 - Vascular Biology & Dysfunction
| Mary Lott | Cardiology |
| Kevin Monahan | Cardiology |
| Ian Simpson | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
Track 5 - Diabetes, Metabolism and Obesity
| Kirsteen Browning | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Andras Hajnal | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Leonard Jefferson | Physiology |
| Mark Kester | Pharmacology |
| Scot Kimball | Physiology |
| Christopher Lynch | Physiology |
| Yuguang Shi | Physiology |
| Renato Travagli | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
Commonwealth - Faculty Mentors
Information forthcoming
CURE - Faculty Mentors
| Willard Freeman | Pharmacology |
| Susan Grigson | Neural & Behavioral Sciences |
| Robert Levenson | Pharmacology |
INTREPID - Faculty Mentors
Information forthcoming