Research Organizational Chart

  • Vice President for Research: Ezemenari Obasi, Ph.D.

  • Senior Director, Business Affairs Officer: Daisy Wright, MBA

  • Director - Research Communications: Julie O'Connor, MBA

  • Executive Assistant: Vacant

  • Assistant VP - Integrative Biosciences: Vacant

  • Assistant VP - Research Enhancement and Development: Rachel L. Wallace, Ph.D.

  • Associate VP - Translational Sciences: Philip Levy, M.D.

  • Associate VP - Sponsored Programs: Gail Ryan

  • Associate VP - Research Integrity: Phil Cunningham, Ph.D.

  • Interim Assistant VP - Technology Transfer and Commercialization: Joan Dunbar, Ph.D.

Centers, Institutes and Thematic Initiatives

  • Director - Center for Molecular Medicine & Genetics: Lawrence Grossman, Ph.D.

  • Director - Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute: Alissa Huth-Bocks, Ph.D.

  • Director - Institute of Gerontology: Peter Lichtenberg, Ph.D. 

  • Director - Center for Urban Responses to Urban Stressors (Institute of Environmental Health Sciences): Melissa Runge-Morris, M.D.

  • Director - Center for Emerging and Infectious Diseases, Marcus Zervos, M.D.

  • Director -  Ben L. Silberstein Institute for Brain Health, David Rosenberg, M.D.

  • Healthy Urban Waters: Carol Miller, Ph.D.

  • Translational Sciences and Clinical Research Innovation: Phil Levy, M.D.