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Meet Our FIRST Faculty Scholars

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The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is passionate about ensuring that our research communities draw upon a full range of talent, and our faculty members are nurtured, recognized, and supported across all groups. Through NIH Common Fund’s Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (FIRST) program, we are pleased to announce the hiring of twelve early-career investigators across four specialties: neuroscience, health equity, cancer, and microbiology. We look forward to their research contributions and welcome them to the Mount Sinai Health System.

The NIH FIRST Cohort Cluster Hiring Initiative at Icahn Mount Sinai is supported by the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number U54CA267776. This award is supported by the NIH Common Fund, through the Office of Strategic Coordination/Office of the NIH Director.

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Igor Bado, PhD
Igor Bado, PhD

Research cluster affiliation: Cancer
Assistant Professor, Oncological Sciences

Camila Coelho, PhD
Camila Coelho, PhD

Research cluster affiliation: Microbiology and Infectious Disease
Assistant Professor, Microbiology

Neris Michel Enamorado Escalona, PhD
Neris Michel Enamorado Escalona, PhD

Research cluster affiliation: Neuroscience
Assistant Professor, Dermatology

DIDDIER PRADA
DIDDIER PRADA

Research cluster affiliation: Health Equity
Assistant Professor, Population Health Science and Policy & Environmental Medicine and Public Health

KAREN HICKLIN
KAREN HICKLIN

Research cluster affiliation: Cancer
Assistant Professor, Population Health Science and Policy

Marcee Wilder, MD
Marcee Wilder, MD

Research cluster affiliation: Health Equity
Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine