Mellon Scholars

The Mellon Scholars program is the foundation of the Richard King Mellon Institute for Pediatric Research at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.

Scholars are comprised of all assistant professors in the tenure stream at UPMC Children’s Hospital, across all divisions.

Our goal is to:

Meet our Mellon Scholars

Taylor Abel, MD – Brain surgery for epilepsy
Sameer “Sam” Agnihotri, PhD – Personalized treatment for brain cancer
Rannar Airik, PhD – New strategies to treat kidney failure
Thiago Bruder do Nascimento, MSc, PhD – Vascular biology and metabolic diseases
Brian Campfield, MD – Fending off foreign attacks on the lung
Will DePas, PhD – Biogeography of bacterial infections
Erick Forno, MD, MPH – Obesity and asthma
Catherine Forster, MD – Urobiome in UTIs
Tim Hand, PhD – Intestinal interactions with bacteria
Tom Hooven, MD – Mechanisms and prevention of perinatal infections
Baoli Hu, PhD – Brain tumor cell behavior
Melissa Kane, PhD – Viruses and the immune system
Dwi U. Kemaladewi, PhD – Interventional genomics in rare diseases
Gary Kohanbash, PhD – Brain tumor vaccines
Marcus Malek, MD – Precision-guided surgery to find cancers
Anita McElroy, MD, PhD – Virus effects throughout the body
Amanda Poholek, PhD – Transcriptional and Epigenetic Regulation of Immune Cell Function
Laurie Silva, PhD – Viral and host determinants of virus replication and pathogenesis
Amery Treble-Barna, PhD – Neurologic function after brain injury
Xiangwei Xiao, MD, PhD – Insulin cell function and preservation

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