CFRC 2023-2025
Catalyst Fund Review Committee
Arts & Humanities
Jad Abumrad
- Distinguished Research Professor, Cinema & Media Arts
- Distinguished Research Professor, Communication of Science & Technology
Michael Bess
- Chancellor's Professor, History
- Professor, European Studies
- Professor, Communication of Science & Technology
- Associate Chair, History
Leah Lowe
- Associate Professor, Theatre, Directing & Dramaturgy
- Director, Curb Center for Art, Enterprise & Public Policy
Ole Molvig
- Assistant Professor, History
- Assistant Professor, Communication of Science & Technology
- Assistant Professor, Physics
Bioscience & Healthcare
Erin Calipari
- Associate Professor, Pharmacology
- Associate Director, Vanderbilt Center for Addiction Research
- Associate Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics
Rob Carnahan
- Professor, Pediatrics
- Professor, Radiology & Radiologic Sciences
- Associate Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center
Ed Chaum
- Margy Ann & J. Donald M. Gass Professor, Ophthamology
- Professor, Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences
- Professor, Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Alex Langerman
- Associate Professor, Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
- Director, Surgical Analytics Lab Vanderbilt Institute for Surgery and Engineering
- Director, The Program on Surgical Ethics Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society
John McLean
- Professor, Chemistry
- Stevenson Professor, Chemistry
- Co-Director, Automated Biosystems Core
- Chair, Chemistry
Jon Wanderer
- Professor, Anesthesiology & Biomedical Informatics
- Associate Director, Vanderbilt Anesthesiology & Perioperative Informatics Research
- Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, VUMC HealthIT
Matthew Weinger
- Professor, Anesthesiology, Biomedical Informatics, & Medical Education
- Norman Ty Smith Chair, Patient Safety & Medical Simulation
Engineering & Physical Sciences
Audrey Bowden
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering
Abishek Dubey
- Associate Professor, Computer Science
- Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
Duco Jansen
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Professor, Neurological Surgery
- Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Faculty Affairs
Gabor Karsai
- Distinguished Professor, Computer Science
- Professor, Electrical Engineering & Computer Engineering
- Co-Associate Chair, Computer Engineering
Yiorgos Kostoulas
- Professor, Practice of Engineering Management
- Director, Division of General Engineering
Dave Merryman
- Walters Family Professor
- Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Professor, Pharmacology
- Professor, Medicine
- Professor, Pediatrics
- Associate Chair, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Bob Webster
- Richard A. Schroeder Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Professor, Electrical Engineering
- Professor, Otolaryngology
- Professor, Neurological Surgery
- Professor, Urologic Surgery
- Professor, Medicine
Social Sciences
Dan Levin
- Professor, Psychology & Human Development
- Co-Director, Cognition & Cognitive Neuroscience Program
Chris Vanags
- Research Assistant Professor, Earth & Environmental Sciences
- Director, Research Initiatives, Peabody College of Education
Elizabeth Zechmeister
- Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor, Political Science
- Director, LAPOP Lab
- Associate Provost, Office of Research & Innovation