Program Directors
Nevil J. Singh, PhD
Associate Professor,
Microbiology and Immunology
Member, Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center
nsingh@som.umaryland.edu
Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD
James and Carolyn Frenkil Dean's Professor
Pharmacology & Physiology
mmccarthy@som.umaryland.edu
Advisory Board
- Dr. James B. Kaper, Ph.D., (UMSOM) James and Carolyn Frenkil Distinguished Dean’s Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Distinguished University Professor
- Dr. Jessica Mong, Ph.D.,(UMSOM) Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Physiology, Assistant Dean for Graduate & Postdoctoral Scholars, Director, GPILS
- Dr. Greg Elmer, Ph.D.,(UMSOM) Professor, Department of Psychiatry
- Dr. Jonathan Kipnis, Ph.D., (Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO) Alan A and Edith L Wolff Distinguished Professor, Professor of Pathology and Immunology, Director of the Brain Immunology and Glia Center, Professor of Neurology, Neuroscience, Neurological Surgery
- Dr. Staci Bilbo, Ph.D. (Duke University, Durham, NC) Haley Family Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
- Dr. Beth Stevens, Ph.D., (Harvard University, Boston, MA), Associate Professor of Neurology
Training Faculty
The initial faculty members participating in MINISTP are listed below. For onboarding additional mentors, please contact the program directors. As one objective of the program is to encourage “bridge building” between strong Immunology and Neuroscience research teams at UMB, we list the faculty based on their primary research strengths – Immunology, Neuroscience or Clinical Neuroimmunology.
We strongly encourage trainees to consider dual mentors, combining complementary expertise in both topics as suited to individual projects. The program directors are available to consult on this “match-making” and facilitate conversations.
Primarily Immunology Focused Faculty:
- (NS) Nevil J. Singh, PhD
- (JP) Joao HF Pedra, PhD
- (KS) Karen M Scanlon, PhD
- (LS) Lishan Su, PhD
- (MF) Martin Flajnik, PhD
- (SK) Shwan Kwatra, MD, PhD
- (TL) Tim Luetkens, PhD
Primarily Neuroscience Focused Faculty:
- (MM) Margaret M. McCarthy, PhD
- (AP) Alexandros Poulopoulos, PhD
- (BP) Brian M. Polster, PhD
- (JW) Junfang Wu, PhD
- (MV) Marco Venniro, PhD
- (ML) Marta Lipinski, PhD
- (MK) Mary Kay Lobo, PhD
- (RS) Rashad Hussain, PhD
- (SC) Sarah Clark, PhD
- (SA) Seth Ament, PhD
Clinical Neuroimmunology Faculty:
- (AK) Anthony Kim, PhD
- (BS) Bogdan A. Stoica, MD
- (DH) Daniel Harrison, MD
- (DB) David Benavides, MD, PhD
- (DK) Deanna Kelly, PharmD, BCPP
- (GW) Graeme F. Woodworth, MD
- (MS) Marc Simard, MD, PhD
- (OS) Osama Saeedi, MD, MS
- (PC) Peter B Crino, MD, PhD
Computational "Skillbuilder" Mentors
MINISTP trainees will have the option to partner with experts in computational biology and bioinformatics to actively develop these skills with year-long mentored “side-projects”. Trainees can meet with the Program Directors and a coordinating team at IGS (Seth Ament, PhD, Brian R. Herb, PhD) to identify suitable projects relevant to their research interests and mentoring teams.