The Department of Biology is excited to announce the hiring of two new faculty! Katheryn Rothenberg, Ph.D., currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Quantitative Morphogenesis Lab at the University of Toronto's Institute of Biomedical Engineering, will be joining the department as an Assistant Professor of Biology in August 2024. Her research focuses on cell adhesion mechanobiology.

Cathy Yea Won Sung, Ph.D., an NIH K99/R00 awardee, will be joining the department in August 2025 as an Assistant Professor of Biology. Dr. Sung is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Laboratory of Hearing Biology and Therapeutics at NIH's National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). Her research focuses on identifying the role of macrophages during ototoxic drug-induced hearing loss with interests including investigating the biology of the blood-labyrinth barrier. 

Katheryn Rothenberg

Cathy Sung