Morgridge Faculty Scholars

Current Awardees

Elizabeth Egan, MD, PhD 
Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2017-2022)
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases)
Study Title: Investigating Novel Host Erythrocyte Determinants of Malaria Infection

Anupama Narla, MD
Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2017-2022)
Assistant Professor, Pediatrics (Hematology & Oncology)
Study Title: Molecular Targeting of Erythroid Progenitors and Ribosomes for the Treatment of Bone Marrow Failure Syndromes

Manish Saggar, MD, PhD
Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2020-2025)
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
Study Title: A Computational Neuropsychiatry Approach Towards Characterizing Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development

Peter Santa Maria, MD, PhD
Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2020-2025)
Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology (Otology & Neurotology)
Study Title: Sensory hearing loss in chronic suppurative otitis media

Suzanne Tharin, MD
Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2020-2025)
Assistant Professor, Neurosurgery
Study Title: microRNA control of connectivity in the developing central nervous system

Keith Van Haren, MD
Tashia and John Morgridge Endowed Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2020-2025)
Assistant Professor, Neurology & Neurological Sciences
Study Title: Multi-omic Modeling of Vitamin D in the Blood and Brain of ALD Boys and ABCD1-null Mice

Past Holders

  • Cristina Alvira, MD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2015-2020)
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Critical Care Medicine)
  • Catherine Blish, MD, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2015-2020)
    Associate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine) and Stanford Immunology
  • Manish J. Butte, MD, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2013-2016)
    Previosuly an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics (Immunology) at Stanford University; Currently, an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles 
  • David Camarillo, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2015-2020)
    Associate Professor of Bioengineering and (by courtesy) of Mechanical Engineering
  • Samuel H. Cheshier, MD, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2012-2017)
    Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and, by courtesy, of Neurology
  • Claudia Mueller, MD, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2008-2013)
    Assistant Professor of Surgery (Pediatric Surgery) 
  • Julien Sage, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2008-2014)
    Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Cancer Biology) and of Genetics
  • Alejandro Sweet-Cordero, MD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2009-2015)
    Associate Professor (Research) of Pediatrics (Hematology & Oncology)
  • Alexander Urban, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2016-2019)
    Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and of Genetics
  • Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD 
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2009-2017)
    Associate Professor, Radiology – Pediatric Radiology
  • Marius Wernig, MD, PhD
    Tashia and John Morgridge Faculty Scholar in Pediatric Translational Medicine (2013-2018) 
    Assistant Professor of Pathology