Marissa Spencer is a board-certified pathology assistant who is joining the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine as a faculty instructor for Tulane’s pathologists assistant program. Spencer has experience in surgical and autopsy pathology as well as leadership experience as a previous laboratory supervisor.

David Crosslin’s research is focused in the area of precision medicine, with a combination of statistical genetics, biomedical informatics, implementation science and computational/bioinformatics tools development.

Chenzhong Li is a professor of biochemistry and biomedical engineering in the Center for Cellular and Molecular Diagnostics at the School of Medicine. Previously he was a professor of biomedical engineering, immunology and chemistry at Florida International University in Miami. He also served as the program director of biosensing program at the National Science Foundation. He holds 16 granted patents and has written about 150 peer-reviewed journal papers, two books and seven book chapters.

Dr. Alexandra Blaney received a DVM from the University of California – Davis before completing a residency in laboratory animal medicine at Stanford University. Blaney joined the Tulane National Primate Research Center as a clinical veterinarian in May.

Liya Pi has worked on liver progenitor/oval cell activation, liver fibrosis and liver cancer development since 2002. Pi’s works have resulted in principal investigator awards from the Children’s Miracle Network Foundation and the American Cancer Society as well as NIH KO1 and RO1 grants.

Kevin Liu is a professor of bioinformatics in the Division of Biomedical Informatics and Genomics at the School of Medicine. He did postdoctoral training at the University of Western Ontario, the University of Waterloo, and the University of California–San Diego from 2008 to 2012. Before joining Tulane, he worked at the Department of BioHealth Informatics, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis for nine years.

Manesh Kumar Panner Selvam recently joined the School of Medicine as a research instructor in the Department of Urology. He received his PhD in animal biotechnology from the Madras Veterinary College in Chennai, India, and completed four years of a postdoctoral fellowship in andrology at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. His research focus has been in reproductive biology, with expertise in sperm and seminal plasma proteomics.

Adam Lawson worked for nearly a decade developing medical education software and simulators for private industry before pursuing a PhD in clinical anatomy. Lawson’s primary professional goals have always been to educate while pursuing research that informs his educational approach.