Mentors and Leadership

Co-principle Investigators

Jason Papin, Ph.D.

Professor, Biomedical Engineering Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor

Jason Papin, Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, develops computational models of cellular networks and performs experiments to characterize biological systems relevant to human disease. After his training in Bioengineering at University of California, San Diego, Jason Papin joined the faculty at University of Virginia in 2005.
Google Scholar Papin Lab
Email papin@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 924-8195

Kevin Janes, Ph.D.

John Marshall Money Professor, Biomedical Engineering

Kevin Janes designs and uses systems bioengineering approaches to analyze cell signaling and transcriptional networks in cancer and infectious disease.
Google Scholar Lab website
Email kjanes@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 243-2126

Executive Committee

Roseanne M. Ford

Professor of Chemical Engineering

Roseanne M. Ford is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Virginia. She holds a B.S. degree from the University of Delaware and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, both in chemical engineering.
Ford Group Google Scholar Research Summary
Email rmf3f@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 924-6283

Madhav Marathe

Professor, Computer Science Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Biocomplexity Institute Division Director, Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing Division, Biocomplexity Institute
Madhav Marathe is an endowed Distinguished Professor in Biocomplexity, Director of the Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing (NSSAC) Division, Biocomplexity Institute and Initiative, and a tenured Professor of Computer Science at the University of Virginia. Dr. Marathe is a passionate…
Google Scholar Network Systems Science and Advanced Computing Division, Biocomplexity Institut… NSSAC COVID-19 Pandemic Response Pandemic Research for Preparedness & Resilience (PREPARE) Expeditions - Global Pervasive Computational Epidemiology
Email mvm7hz@virginia.edu

Shayn Peirce-Cottler, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor

Shayn Peirce-Cottler develops computational models and combines them with wet lab experiments and machine learning to study how tissues heal after injury and to develop new therapies for inducing tissue regeneration.
Google Scholar Peirce-Cottler Laboratory UVA Center for Advanced Biomanufacturing
Email shayn@virginia.edu
Phone (434) 806-7850

Nathan Sheffield

Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, and Data Science
The Sheffield Lab uses computation to ask and answer biological questions. We study the non-coding DNA that encodes gene regulatory networks and enables cellular differentiation, and how these networks break down in disease like cancer. To address these biological questions, we develop scientific…
Google Scholar Sheffield Lab Personal Website
Email nsheffield@virginia.edu

SBDS Approved Faculty Mentors

SILVIA BLEMKER Biomedical Engineering

STEFAN BEKIRANOV Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

PHIL BOURNE Biomedical Engineering

MIKE BROWN Nephrology

GRAHAM CASEY Public Health Sciences

METE CIVELEK Genome Sciences

ALLISON CRISS Microbiology

DOUGLAS DESIMONE Cell Biology

SEPIDEH DOLATSHAHI Biomedical Engineering

MOHAMMAD FALLAHI-SICHANI Biomedical Engineering

CHARLES FARBER Public Health Sciences

ROSEANNE FORD Chemical Engineering

FRANCINE GARRETT-BAKELMAN Medicine, Hematolgy & Oncology

ELIZABETH GAUGHAN Hematology

JENNIFER GULER Biology

KEVIN JANES Biomedical Engineering

DAVID KASHATUS Microbiology

MATTHEW LAZZARA Chemical Engineering

MADHAV MARATHE Biocomplexity Initiative

CLINT MILLER Public Health Sciences

SEAN MOORE Pediatric Gastroenterology

KRISTEN NAEGLE Biomedical Engineering

EYLEEN O'ROURKE Biology Department

JASON PAPIN Biomedical Engineering

SHAYN PEIRCE-COTTLER Biomedical Engineering

BILL PETRI Medicine, Infectious Disease

YANJUN (JANE) QI Computer Science

AAKROSH RATAN Public Health Sciences

CHRISTIAN REIDYS Mathematics

STEPHEN RICH Public Health Sciences

GUSTAVO ROHDE Biomedical Engineering

JEFF SAUCERMAN Biomedical Engineering

NATHAN SHEFFIELD Genome Sciences

NATASHA SHEYBANI Biomedical Engineering

GLORIA SHEYNKMAN Molecular Physics and Biophysics

TODD STUKENBERG Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics

STEFANO TOLDO Cardiovascular Medicine

CHONGZHI ZANG Public Health Sciences

AIDONG ZHANG Computer Science

ELI ZUNDER Biomedical Engineering