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Cornell University

PACE

Program for Achieving Career Excellence

People

Leadership
Advisory Council
Faculty Mentors
PACE Participants
Rising Stars

The Directors and Principal Investigators of the PACE and Rising Stars programs.

Hector Aguilar-Carreno and link to bioHector Aguilar-Carreno

Director, PACE Program
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Aguilar Lab

Cynthia Leifer and link to bioCynthia Leifer

Director, PACE Program
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Leifer Lab

Members of the PACE Advisory Council

Avery August and link to bioAvery August

HHMI Professor
Professor of Immunology
Deputy Provost
August Lab

Paula Cohen and link to bioPaula Cohen

Director, Center for Reproductive Genomics
Professor of Genetics
Associate Vice Provost for Life Sciences
Cohen Lab

Yael Levitte and link to bioYael Levitte

Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity
Office of Faculty Development and Diversity Website

Hening Lin and link to bioHening Lin

Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Lin Group Lab

Kelly Musick and link to bioKelly Musick

Senior Associate Dean of Research
Professor of Sociology

David Russell and link to bioDavid Russell

William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Susi Varvayanis and link to bioSusi Varvayanis

Executive Director, Graduate School Careers Beyond Academia
Careers Beyond Academia Website

 
 

Senior Faculty at Cornell University who mentor our PACE Participants

Hector Aguilar-Carreno and link to bioHector Aguilar-Carreno

Director, PACE Program
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Aguilar Lab

Craig Altier and link to bioCraig Altier

Professor, Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences

 

Avery August and link to bioAvery August

HHMI Professor
Professor of Immunology
Deputy Provost
August Lab

Susan Daniel and link to bioSusan Daniel

Director, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Fred H. Rhodes Professor
Professor, Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Daniel Lab

 

Maureen Hanson and link to bioMaureen Hanson

Director, Center for Enervating NeuroImmune Disease
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor
Professor, Molecular Biology and Genetics
Hanson Laboratory

Brian Lazzaro and link to bioBrian Lazzaro

Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor
Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Lazzaro Lab

 

Cynthia Leifer and link to bioCynthia Leifer

Director, PACE Program
Professor, Microbiology and Immunology
Leifer Lab

 

Saurabh Mehta and link to bioSaurabh Mehta

Janet and Gordon Lankton Professor
Professor, Nutritional Sciences
Mehta Research Group

John Parker and link to bioJohn S. L. Parker

Associate Professor of Virology
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology

Collin Parrish and link to bioCollin Parrish

John M. Olin Professor of Virology
Baker Institute for Animal Health
Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Parrish Lab

 

David Putnam and link to bioDavid A. Putnam

Associate Dean for Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Professor, Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Putnam Group

 

Brian Rudd and link to bioBrian Rudd

Associate Professor, Microbiology & Immunology
Rudd Lab

David Russell and link to bioDavid Russell

William Kaplan Professor of Infection Biology
Professor of Microbiology & Immunology

Gary Whittaker and link to bioGary Whittaker

Professor of Virology, Microbiology & Immunology
Infectious Disease Epidemiology Chief, Master of Public Health Program
Whittaker Lab

 
 

Current Participants in PACE

Under construction! Please check back soon for updates.

Current Cornell Rising Stars

Roberto Alers-Velazquez and link to bioRoberto Alers-Velazquez

Postdoc, Dartmouth College
Microbiology and Immunology

James Allen and link to bioJames Allen

Research Fellow
Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital

Leonor Garcia-Bayona and link to bioLeonor Garcia-Bayona

Postdoctoral Fellow
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Harvard Medical School

Aaron Moye and link to bioAaron Moye

Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard Medical School and Boston Children's Hospital
Genetics, Stem Cell Program

Diane Nelson and link to bioDiane Nelson

NRC Postdoctoral Fellow
MML at NIST

Lisa-Marie Nisbett and link to bioLisa-Marie Nisbett

Postdoctoral Fellow, Stony Brook University
Pharmacological Sciences

Zeribe Nwosu and link to bioZeribe Nwosu

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Michigan
Molecular and Integrative Physiology

Elena Panizza and link to bioElena Panizza

Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Molecular Medicine

Miran Perusina-Lanfranca and link to bioMirna Perusina-Lanfranca

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Virginia
Carter Immunology Center

Mabel Taracena and link to bioMabel Taracena

Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University
Entomology

Kishana Taylor and link to bioKishana Y. Taylor

Postdoc, Rutgers University
Earth and Environmental Sciences

Valerie Tornini and link to bioValerie Tornini

Associate Research Scientist, Yale University
Genetics

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