R25 Mentors
Our mentors will provide USC junior faculty members with training support in the program. The following is a list of our current R25 mentors, click to learn more.
R25 Mentors
Majdi N. Al-Hasan, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Medicine Chief of Infectious Diseases Division; Vice Chair of Medical Specialties and Research
Leonardo Bonilha, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean for Research, Pharmacology, Physiology, Neuroscience, School of Medicine Columbia
Neset Hikmet, Ph.D.
Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Director, Applied Sciences Center for Applied Innovation and Advanced Analytics
Jianjun Hu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Zhenlong Li, Ph.D.
Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University
Xiaoming Li, Ph.D.
Professor and SmartState Endowed Chair for Clinical Translational Research
Chen Liang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Health Services Policy & Management, Arnold School of Public Health
Alain Litwin, MD
Professor and Vice Chair of Internal Medicine at USC School of Medicine-Greenville
Melissa Nolan, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health
Bankole Olatosi, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Health Service, Policy and Management, Arnold School of Public Health
Michael Shtutman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director, Functional Genomics Core, Drug Discovery & Biomedical Sciences (DDBS), College of Pharmacy
Christopher A. Sutton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Shan Qiao, Ph.D
Associate Professor, Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health
Homayoun Valafar, Ph.D
Professor, Chair, Computer Science & Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering; Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering and Computing
Qi Wang, Ph.D
Professor, Mathematics, College of Arts and Sciences
Sharon Weissman, MD
Department Chair of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine, School of Medicine Columbia
Xueying Yang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior, Arnold School of Public Health
Jiajia Zhang, Ph.D.
Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Arnold School of Public Health