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