Current Trainees

Predoctoral Trainees

Kristine Yarnoff

• Mentor: Grant Barish, MD - Medicine - Endocrinology 
• Project:
• Appointed: May 1, 2024

Tianming (Tim) You

• Mentor: Serdar Bulun, MD, Professor, Obstetrics & Gynecology
• Project: Role of estrogen signaling in abdominal muscle fibrosis and inguinal hernia
• Appointed: July 1, 2022

Postdoctoral Trainees

Amir Mahmoodzadeh, PhD

• Mentor: Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD - Medicine - Cardiology - Pharmacology
• Co-Mentor: Joseph Bass, MD, PhD - Medicine - Endocrinology
• Project: The Role of Reactive Oxygen Species, NRF2 Protein, and Glutathione in Regulation of Macrophage Polarization by the Glycolytic Enzyme, Hexokinase 3 (HK3).
• Appointed: December 1, 2024

Ryan Kovaleski, PhD

• Mentor: Talia Lerner, PhD - Neuroscience - Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
• Project:
  
• Appointed: December 1, 2024

Moloud Sooreshjani, PhD

• Mentor: Richard Green, MD - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
• Project:
  
• Appointed: March 1, 2025