HuGER

Administrative responsibility for the HuGER training program resides with the Executive Committee.

Program Director: Dr. Terrence J. Monks was recruited to the University of Arizona’s College of Pharmacy from the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Professor and Director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Toxicology. Dr. Monks is currently Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology.

Associate Program Director: Dr. Vicki Chandler  is a Regents Professor and holds the Weiler Endowed Chair at the University of Arizona, where she directs the interdisciplinary BIO5 Institute. Dr. Chandler was on the faculty at the University of Oregon from 1985 until coming to the University of Arizona in 1997. In the early stages of her career she received the Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Searle Scholar award. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and is a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

 

In addition to the HuGER Program Director and the Associate Program Director above, the Executive Committee includes, Dr. Marie Teresa Velez (Associate Dean, Graduate College) and faculty representing each of the major participating disciplines; (i) Dr. Jay Gandolfi - environmental and public health sciences and engineering, (ii) Dr. Fernando Martinez - population and functional genetics/genomics, and (iii) Dr. Walt Piegorsch -computational biology and statistics/bioinformatics

HuGER TG Trainee Advisor: Dr. Linda Powers (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) will serve as the HuGER trainee advisor. Dr. Powers is the first point-of-contact for all trainees, providing advice on individualized curricular design, and ensuring that all trainees meet home departmental requirements whilst also completing all HuGER curricular requirements.

 

HuGER TG Curriculum Coordinators: Drs. Mark Riley (left) (Dept. Agriculture & Biosystems Engineering) and Walt Klimecki (right) (Dept. Pharmacology and Toxicology) serve as coordinators of the didactic training of the pre- and postdoctoral trainees, and ensure that the graduate courses designed for the HuGER training program meet the needs of the pre-doctoral trainees.

 

HuGER TG Seminar and Visiting Scientist Coordinator:Dr. Donata Vercelli coordinates the HuGER training program seminar series. Dr. Vercelli schedules HuGER trainee seminars within an overall weekly seminar program that also includes HuGER faculty, Visiting Scientists from across the spectrum of disciplines integral to the training program, and alumni of the derivative training programs..   

 

HuGER External Advisory Board: Input from the External Advisory Board (EAB) assists in fine-tuning the growth of the HuGER training program. The EAB is comprised of individuals with considerable experience in graduate training, program management, student career development and national educational issues in environmental and public health sciences and engineering, population and functional genomics/genetics, and computational biology and statistics/ bioinformatics. Members of this board are:-

Dr. Ken Ramos (Chair, Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Louisville),

Dr. Françoise Seillier-Moiseiwitschv (Chair, Dept. Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Biomathematics, Georgetown University)

Dr. Tom Kensler (Prof. Dept. Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)