Team

Show All Leadership Team Strategic Coordination Unit Biospecimen & Clinical Research Unit Research Project Management Team Pre-clinical Laboratory Research Unit Advanced Data Applications and Platform Technologies Unit Bioinformatics Unit Translational Imaging Research Unit Clinical and Translational Data Science Unit Matrix Support Unit

Leadership Team

  • Jay Storm, MD

    Co-Executive Director; Chief, Division of Neurosurgery
  • Adam Resnick, PhD

    Co-Executive Director
  • Jena Lilly, MS

    Executive Director of Research Operations and Strategic Planning

Strategic Coordination Unit

  • Ximena Cuellar, MBA

    Research Business & Administrative Director
  • Trang Duros, BBA

    Research Administrative Director
  • Kenyetta McDonald, MBA

    Assistant Director of Research Business Operations
  • Gerri Trooskin, MS

    Director of Partnerships
  • Dani Cardona, BS

    Administrative Program Manager
  • Erin Chubb, BS

    Administrative Program Coordinator
  • Wendy Payton, BBA

    Director of Communications
  • Whitney Rife, BS

    Communications & Outreach Project Manager
  • Bobby Moulder, MBA

    Senior Designer
  • Emily Reed, BS

    Communications Coordinator

Biospecimen & Clinical Research Unit

  • Jennifer Mason, BA

    Director of Biospecimen and Clinical Research Operations
  • Kaitlin Lehmann, MA

    Clinical Research Program Manager
  • Catherine Sullivan, BS

    Biospecimen Research Unit Program Manager
  • Allison Morgan, BS

    Clinical Research Project Manager
  • Beth Frenkel, BS

    Clinical Research Project Manager
  • Sonora Reingruber, BS

    Clinical Research Coordinator/GFAC Tissue Navigator
  • Lina Lopez, BA

    Clinical Research Coordinator
  • Noel Coleman, BS

    Biospecimen Research Coordinator
  • Sheridan Schwartz, BS

    Clinical Research Coordinator
  • Valeria Lopez-Gil, BA

    Clinical Research Assistant
  • Herbert Manarang, BA

    Shipping Specialist
  • Sean McHugh, BS

    Clinical Research Assistant
  • Ria Patel, MS

    Biospecimen Research Coordinator
  • Michelle Nikhinson, BS

    Biospecimen Research Coordinator
  • Shanique Doyle

    Biospecimen & Clinical Research Coordinator

Research Project Management Team

  • Tatiana Patton, MS

    Director of Project Management and Research Programs
  • Ashley Gehrand, MS

    Preclinical Models Project Manager
  • Stephanie McGrory, BS

    Clinical Research Program Manager
  • Kimberlee Bortz, MPH

    Research Program Coordinator

Pre-clinical Laboratory Research Unit

Advanced Data Applications and Platform Technologies Unit

Bioinformatics Unit

  • Yuankun Zhu, BS

    Director of Bioinformatics
  • Yiran Guo, PhD

    Supervisor Bioinformatics Scientist
  • Ammar Naqvi, PhD

    Bioinformatics Scientist
  • Qi Li, MS

    Bioinformatics Scientist
  • Joseph Dybas, PhD

    Proteomics Lead & Bioinformatics Scientist
  • Alex Sickler, BS

    Bioinformatics Computing Infrastructure Manager
  • Bo Zhang, BS

    Bioinformatics Engineer
  • Miguel Brown, MA

    Bioinformatics Engineer
  • Dan Miller, MS

    Bioinformatics Engineer
  • Xiaoyan Huang, MS

    Bioinformatics Engineer
  • Chuwei Zhong, PhD

    Bioinformatics Engineer
  • Jessica Wong, PhD

    Bioinformatics Engineer

Translational Imaging Research Unit

Clinical and Translational Data Science Unit

  • Adam Kraya, PhD

    Technical Director of Clinical and Translational Data Science
  • Komal Rathi, MS

    Bioinformatics Scientist
  • Matthew Lueder, MSc

    Bioinformatics Engineer

Matrix Support Unit

  • Marilyn Li, MD

    Cancer Genomics Lab Director
  • Mariarita Santi, MD, PhD

    Neuropathologist
  • Jessica Foster, MD

    Physician/Scientist
  • Mahdi Sarmady, PhD, MSc

    Director of Bioinformatics
  • Liz Barone, BS

    Senior Major Gift Officer
  • Regina Sukanick, CFRE

    Associate Director, Foundation Relations
  • Shay Overstone, BA

    Clinical Research Coordinator
  • Lisa States, MD

    Pediatric Radiologist
  • Jeffrey Ware, MD

    Neuroradiologist
  • Lorenna Vidal, MD, DABR

    Pediatric Neuroradiologist
  • David Stokes, PhD

    Technical Director
  • Mike Kelly, MS

    Sr. Data Integration Analyst
  • Asif Chinwalla, MS, MBA

    Head of Scientific Computing
  • Will Struebing, BS

    DevOps Engineer