REC Mentorship
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Mentoring for Junior Investigators

The Michigan Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center offers a mentoring program for junior investigators. The program aims to provide junior investigators entering the field of dementia research with a broad education about contemporary dementia research and provide junior investigators with mentoring by experienced investigators in developing competitive grant applications.
REC Junior Investigator Mentees – 2023-2025 Class
 user Elizabeth Litkowski Elizabeth Litkowski, PhD
Multidisciplinary Postdoctoral Training Program in Basic Diabetes Research, Trainee
 Norman Scheel, Dr rer nat (PhD), Dipl-Inf Norman Scheel, Dr rer nat (PhD), Dipl-Inf
Michigan State University, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate
 Elisa Torres, PhD, RN Elisa Torres PhD, RN
Associate Professor, Wayne State University, College of Nursing
 Connie Wu, PhD Connie Wu, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Life Sciences Institute and Assistant Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences
 Arthur Zhou, PhD Arthur Zhou, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Investigator, Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan
REC Junior Investigator Mentees – 2022-2024 Class
 Kelly DuBois, Ph.D. Kelly DuBois, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Translational Neuroscience, Michigan State University
 Alexandru Iordan, PhD Alexandru Iordan, PhD
Assistant Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
 Tongtong Li, PhD Tongtong Li, PhD
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), College of Engineering, Michigan State University
 Pilar Rivero-Rios, PhD Pilar Rivero-Rios, PhD
Research Fellow
 Xin Wang, PhD, MPH Xin Wang, PhD, MPH
Research Investigator, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan

Andrew Bender, PhD, Michigan State University
Matthew Benskey, PhD, Michigan State University
Sarah Elzinga, PhD, University of Michigan
Jessica Finlay, PhD - University of Michigan

Omar Ahmed, PhD, University of Michigan
Ana Daugherty, PhD, Wayne State University
Amara Ezeamama, PhD, Michigan State University
Charlie Fehl, PhD, Wayne State University
Ilce Medina-Meza, PhD, Michigan State University
Courtney Polenick, PhD, University of Michigan
Annalise Rahman-Filipiak, PhD, University of Michigan

DeAnnah Byrd, PhD, Wayne State University
Julia Gerson, PhD, University of Michigan
Lenette Jones, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, University of Michigan
Rohit Marawar, MD, Wayne State University
Sheria Robinson-Lane, PhD, RN, University of Michigan

HwaJung Choi, PhD, University of Michigan
Benjamin Combs, PhD, Michigan State University
Jeske Damoiseaux, PhD, Wayne State University
Wassim Tarraf, PhD, Wayne State University
Jiayu Zhou, PhD, Michigan State University