Below is a list of the current mentors in the Iowa Sciences Academy that are mentoring our students. If interested in finding a mentor, please also see the list of Prospective Mentors below.

Current Mentors

Tiffany Adrain

Tiffany Adrain, M.S.

Title/Position
Special Collections Manager
Adjunct Instructor
Renata Alambert

Renata Alambert, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology and Metabolism
Benji Baran

Bengi Baran, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Mark Blumberg

Mark Blumberg, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor, Department Chair, University of Iowa Distinguished Chair
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Aubrey Chan

Aubrey Chan, MD

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine - General Internal Medicine
Sneyajyoti Chatterjee

Snehajyoti Chatterjee, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Ece Demir Lira

Ece Demir Lira, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Assistant Professor
Psychological and Brain Sciences
Natalie Denburg

Natalie Denburg , Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor of Neurology
Thomas Folland

Thomas Folland , PhD

Title/Position
Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy
Andrew Forbes

Andrew Forbes, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor
Department of Biology

Prospective Mentors

Ted Abel

Ted Abel, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Chair, Department of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Director, Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Roy J. Carver Chair in Neuroscience
Professor of Neuroscience and Pharmacology
Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
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Saba Rasheed Ali, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Research Team LSAMP
Professor of Counseling Psychology
Associate Dean for Research, College of Education
Kelly Baker

Kelly Baker, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Occupational and Environmental Health
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Alexander Bassuk, M.D., Ph.D.

Title/Position
Chair, Stead Family Department of Pediatrics
Physician-in-Chief, Stead Family Children's Hospital
Professor of Pediatrics - General Neurology
Professor of Neurology
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Melissa Bates

Title/Position
Associate Professor
Health and Human Physiology
Ryan Boudreau

Ryan Boudreau , Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine-Cardiovascular Medicine
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Terry Braun, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Hansjoerg E.J.W. Kolder MD Associate Professor in Best Disease Research
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
Researcher, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Director of Coordinated Laboratory for Computational Genomics
Researcher, Institute for Vision Research
Chris Brochu

Chris Brochu , Ph.D.

Title/Position
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Gordon Buchanan

Gordon Buchanan, MD, Ph.D.

Title/Position
Associate Professor of Neurology
Beth L. Tross Epilepsy Professor