Our Team

UNC Research Group

Rebekah Layton, PhD, CMC, PCC  – Principal Investigator

Director of Professional Development Programs | UNC SOM Office of Graduate Education

Adjunct Associate Professor | UNC School of Education

Pat Brennwald, PhD – Co-Investigator

Professor | UNC SOM Department of Cell Biology & Physiology

TIBBS Faculty Advisor | UNC SOM Office of Graduate Education

Patrick Brandt, PhD  – Co-Investigator

Director of Career Training and Education | UNC SOM Office of Graduate Education

Dave McDonald, PhD – Co-Investigator

Director of the Biological & Biomedical Sciences Program | UNC SOM Office of Graduate Education

Christiann Gaines, PhD – Co-Investigator

Director of Doctoral Diversity and Success in Graduate Education | UNC SOM Office of Graduate Education

Natalie D’Silva, PhD – Research Specialist

Graduate Education Research Specialist | UNC SOM Office of Graduate Education

Research Team Collaborators

Adriana Bankston, PhD – Science Policy Consultation Analyst

Science and Technology Policy Fellow (Incoming) | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Congressional Policy Fellow | American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT)

Dawayne Whittington, MEd – External Evaluator

Director/Founder | Strategic Evaluations, Inc.

We also work on many collaborative team projects, a selection of additional current and past collaborators can be found here.