Administrative and Research Staff
Brenden-Colson Center staff

Sharon Nellist
Administrative Coordinator
Scheduling, hosting visitors and executive assistant to Dr. Sears

Alison Grossblatt-Wait
Clinical Data Analyst
Epic data extractions, cohort analysis

Dove Keith, Ph.D.
Scientific Program Manager
Internal collaborations, academic partnerships and research funding awarded by BCC

Loa Nowina-Sapinski
Program Manager
Financial, personnel, educational events and grants submitted by BCC

Alex Susser
Clinical Coordinator
Patient consent, specimen management
Brenden-Colson Center research staff and trainees
Heike Mendez
Senior Research Assistant
Grossberg lab

Katherine Pelz
Research Assistant
Grossberg lab

Katherine Michaelis
Ph.D. Candidate
Cachexia

Sydney Owen
Repository Steward
Biospecimen and data requests

Carl Pelz
Research Associate, Computational Biology
Database developer and data integration

Ethan Agritelley
Atlas Project Technician; TPAIT Lab Lead
Patient-derived cell lines; islet isolation

Karyn Taylor
Science Project Manager
Sears Lab, School of Medicine

Trent Waugh
Senior Research Assistant
Patient-derived models of cancer

Roberto Di Niro, Ph.D.
Lab Manager
Brody Lab, Dept. of Surgery