Executive and Administrative Staff
Robert Price, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Research Facilities and Infrastructure
Email: bob.price@uscmed.sc.edu
Savannah Britz, CRA
Director of Finance & Business Operations
Research Facilities and Infrastructure
Email: savannah.britz@sc.edu
Phone: 803-544-1190
Gary Schools, Ph.D.
Program Coordinator
Research Facilities and Infrastructure
Email: schoolsg@cop.sc.edu
Rodney Gornto
Business Operations Specialist
Research Facilities and Infrastructure
Email: rgornto@mailbox.sc.edu
Tyshawna Cleveland
Administrative Coordinator
Office of Research
Email: tc78@mailbox.sc.edu
Centralized Core Directors and Managers
Santosh Kiran Balijepalli, Ph.D.
Core Director
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Core
skiran@sc.edu
Bill Cotham
Core Director
Mass Spectrometry Core
cotham@mailbox.sc.edu
Samaneh Nemati, Ph.D.
Core Director
Healthcare Evaluation Systems and Technology Informatics Archive (HESTIA) Core
snemati@mailbox.sc.edu
Zachery Oestreicher, Ph.D.
Core Director
Electron Microscopy (EM) Center
zacheryo@mailbox.sc.edu
Maredith Richardson
Core Manager
Mouse Experimentation and Germ-Free Core (MEGF)
baird3@mailbox.sc.edu
Jim Sexton
Core Manager
Center for Elemental Mass Spectrometry
jsexton@geol.sc.edu
Austin Worden, Ph.D.
Core Director
Instrumentation Resource Facility (IRF)
austin.worden@uscmed.sc.edu
Jibin Zhao
Core Manager
Electron Microscopy (EM) Center
zhao@biol.sc.edu
Research Cores Advisory Committee
Jeff Twiss, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, McCausland College of Arts and Sciences
Professor, SmartState Chair in Childhood Neurotherapeutics, Biological Sciences
Lumi Bakos, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President for Research Operations, Office of Research
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Arnold School of Public Health
Daniela Friedman, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research and Leadership Development, Arnold School of Public Health
Professor, Health Promotion, Education, and Behavior
Michael Wyatt, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Drug Discovery and Biomedical Sciences, College of Pharmacy
Marlene Wilson, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Pharmacology, Physiology & Neuroscience, School of Medicine Columbia
Mark Uline, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Biomedical Engineering, Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing
Homayoun Valafar, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Computer Science, Molinaroli College of Engineering and Computing
Director, AI Institute
Caryn Outten, Ph.D.
Professor and Guy F. Lipscomb Professor of Chemistry, Chemistry and Biochemistry, McCausland College of Arts and Sciences
Ann Blair Kennedy, LMT, BCTMB, DrPH
Clinical Associate Professor, Biomedical Sciences and Family Medicine, School of Medicine Greenville