More than 3,200 students headed to Brown’s campus for the 2025-2026 academic year will be joined by 44 new faculty members in the Division of Biology and Medicine.
Brown’s newest faculty members represent a wide range of backgrounds, perspectives, research activities, and teaching interests.
The full listing of new faculty, with links for more information about each of them, is below.
Michelle Aiello
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Ariana Albanese
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
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Imad Al Ghouleh
Associate Professor of Medicine (Research)
Burak Bahar
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Madeline Benz
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Prachi Bhuptani
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Zihuan Cao
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Vivian Cheung
William Rogers Provost's Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Anda Chirila
Manning Assistant Professor of Neuroscience
Grace Cushman
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Sergej Djuranovic
Mencoff Family RNA Research Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry
Lee W. Eschenroeder
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Semsa Gogcu
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Mikhail Gorbounov
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Matthew James Hadfield
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Haeyeon Hong
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Matthew Howe
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Jana Jarolimova
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Anita Knopov
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Gabriela Lopez
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Weihan Li
Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry
Dragos Luca
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Denise Marte
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Boris A. Martinez Recinos
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brian McMillen
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Divya Murthy
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Research)
Shirlene Obuobi
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Elizabeth Olsen
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Slavica Pavlovic-Djuranovic
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Aurora Dawn Pryor
J. Murray Beardsley Professor of Surgery, Chair of Surgery
Ana Rabasco
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Maheen Akbar Rana
Assistant Professor of Neurology
Joseph Gregory Rosen
Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Research), Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research)
Hannah Russell
Assistant Professor of Neurology
David Jaekwang Shim
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Toi Spates
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Allison Stumper
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Michelle I. Suh
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
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Preeti Sunderaraman
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior
Elizabeth Tampke
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Jessica Tingle
Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology
Saraschandra Vallabhajosyula
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Gemma Tierney Wallace
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)
Anna Yeo
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research)