Current TARDIS Trainees
Munir Buhaya, M.D.
Residency Program: Surgery
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: Emina Huang, M.D.
Project: Role of inflammatory fibroblasts and immune infiltrates in early-onset colorectal cancer in Hispanics
Peter Carlsgaard, M.D.
Residency Program: Internal Medicine
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: Stephen Chung, M.D.
Project: Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential (CHIP) and leukemic stem cell biology
Madysen Hunter
Medical Student
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: Benjamin Levi, M.D.
Project: Investigating cell to cell communication in trauma induced heterotopic ossification and exploring the role for neural-based surgical and pharmacologic strategies for HO prevention.
Kevin Mutore, M.D.
Residency Program: Surgery
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: Natasha Corbitt, M.D.
Project: Exploring the role of cfc1 in the pathogenesis of syndromic biliary atresia
Nil Saez Calveras, M.D.
Residency Program: Neurology
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: Marc Diamond, MD
Project: Use of Chimeric Antigen Receptor Monocytes against Tau in Alzheimer’s disease
Natalie Williams, M.D.
Residency Program: Surgery
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: Rolf Brekken, Ph.D.
Project: Understanding and exploiting the transcriptomic and proteomic difference in Smad4 WT vs Smad4-deficient pancreatic cancer
Haitao Xu, M.D., M.S.
Residency Program: Internal Medicine
TARDIS Program: 2023-2025
PI Mentor: James Brugarolas, M.D., Ph.D.
Project: Pancreatic tropism of metastatic renal cell carcinoma