
RI-INBRE Staff
Program Coordinator
Associate Professor
Department of Biology
Providence College
401.865.2239 
 bpellock@providence.edu
Student Research Program Lead
Assistant Professor
Department of Cell and Molecular Biology
College of the Environment and Life Sciences
University of Rhode Island
401-874-4968 
 cfallini@uri.edu
Director, Centralized Research Core Facility
Research Assistant Professor
College of Pharmacy
University of Rhode Island
                                                  401-874-5731 
 angcai@uri.edu
Director, Molecular Informatics Core
Research Associate Professor
College of Pharmacy
University of Rhode Island
401-874-9862 
 hemmecl@uri.edu
External Advisory Committee
Professor, Molecular and Cell Biology
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT
Professor Emeritus of Medical Science
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Division of Biology and Medicine
Brown University, Providence, RI 
Professor Emeritus Biology, Former Vice President of Academic Affairs
Kentucky Wesleyan College
Owensboro, KY
Associate Dean for Research, Professor
College of Pharmacy
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Scientific Director, Quantitative Clinical Pharmacology
                     
Takeda
Cambridge, MA
President and CEO
MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc.
Kingston, RI
Distinguished Emeritus Professor
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy
Boston, MA
Executive Committee
Brown University, Providence, RI
401.863.1034 
 Edward_Hawrot@Brown.EDU
Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
401.341.3121 
 susan.meschwitz@salve.edu
Providence College, Providence, RI
401.865.1280 
 smulcahy@providence.edu
Bryant University, Smithfield, RI
401.232.6000 
 creid@bryant.edu
Johnson and Wales University, Providence, RI
800.342.5598 
 Samantha.Rosenthal@jwu.edu
Professor
Research: Marine natural products chemistry, antibiotics drug discovery, marine microbial chemical ecology
Rhode Island College, Providence, RI
401.456.9707 
 jtowle-weicksel@ric.edu
Community College of Rhode Island, Warwick, RI
401.825.1023 
  citureniusbell@ccri.edu
Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI
401.254.3014 
 bwysor@rwu.edu
Outside Mentoring Consultants
Consultants
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
University of Maine, Orono, ME
Keene State College, Keene, NH
This recent renewal of the RI-INBRE program by the National Institutes of Health is a gratifying acknowledgment of the innovation, hard work, and dedication of the University of Rhode Island and partnering institution faculty and staff.Michael Lynes, chair of the RI-INBRE External Advisory Committee




























