Endowed Researchers
Bucks-for-Brains funding has supported the creation of more than 160 endowed chair, professor and fellow positions at UofL with a focus on groundbreaking and impactful research. Read more below.
- Gary Gregg, II, Mitch McConnell Chair in Leadership in the Center for the Study of Leadership
- David Buckley, Paul J. Weber Endowed Chair in Politics, Science, and Religion
- Brendan Depue, Endowed Chair in Behavioral Brain Imaging
- Gerald Hammond, Endowed Chair in Organic Chemistry
- Shiping Hua, Calvin & Helen Lang Distinguished Chair in Asian Studies
- Delin Lai, Frederic Lindley Morgan Endowed Chair of Architecture & Design
- Deborah Lutz, Thruston B. Morton, Sr. (Endowed) Professor of English
- Bronwyn Williams, Endowed Chair in Rhetoric & Composition
- Stephen Yanoviak, Tom Wallace Endowed Chair of Conservation
- Manju Ahuja, Frazier Family Professor of Computer Information Systems
- Aaron Barnes, Johnson Endowed Professor of Marketing
- Michael Barone, Brown-Forman Professor of Marketing
- Daniel Bennett, Cobb Family Professor of Entrepreneurship
- Isabel Botero, George E. and Mary Lee Fischer Chair in Family Entrepreneurship
- Carolyn Callahan, Brown Forman Endowed Chair
- James Fiet, Brown-Forman Chair in Entreprenuership
- Richard Germain, Challenge for Excellence Chair in Supply Chain Management
- Kathleen Gosser, YUM! Assistant Professor of Franchise Management Practice
- Sandeep Goyal, Brown & Williamson Professor of Information Systems, Analytics and Operations
- Jon Klein, James Graham Brown Foundation Endowed Chair in Proteomics
- Nathaniel Irvin, II, Woodrow M. Strickler"Our Highest Potential" Chair in Management
- Christopher Stivers, PNC Professor of Banking and Finance
- Richard Lamont, Delta Dental Endowed Professor of Oral Health and Rehabilitation Health and Systemic Disease
- Karlynn BrintzenhofeSzoc, Dr. Renato LaRocca Endowed Chair of Oncology Social Work
- Timothy Hall, Boehl Chair in Health Law
- Lisa Nicholson, William Marshall Bullitt Chair in Business Law
- Manning Warren, III, Harold Edward Harter (Endowed) Professor
- Dwayne Buttler, Evelyn Schneider Endowed Chair for Scholarly Communication
- Thomas Abell, Arthur M. Schoen, MD, Chair in Gastroenterology in Memory of his wife, Elizabeth Clark Gentry Schoen
- Yousef Abu Kwaik, Bumgardner Endowed Chair in Molecular Pathogenesis
- Nicholas Ahn, K. Armand Fischer Professorship in Orthopedic Surgery
- Bahaaldin Alsoufi, Erle Austin III, MD Endowed Chair in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
- Gregory Barnes, Spafford Ackerly Endowed Chair in Child Psychiatry
- Charles Barr, Drs. Arthur and Virginia Keeney Chair of Resident Education and Ethics in Ophthalmology & Visual Sci
- Andrea Behrman, Kosair Charities Endowed Chair in Pediatric Neurorecovery
- Aruni Bhatnagar, Smith and Lucille Gibson Chair in Medicine
- Maxwell Boakye, Ole A., Mabel Wise and Wilma Nelson Endowed Research Chair
- Kimberly Boland, Billy F Andrews, MD, Endowed Chair in Pediatrics
- Roberto Bolli, Jewish Hospital Heart & Lung Institute Distinguished Chair in Cardiology
- Kyle Brothers, Endowed Chair in Pediatric Clinical and Translational Research
- Jeffrey Bumpous, J. Samuel Bumgardner (Endowed) Professor of Otolaryngology in Surgery
- Lu Cai, Children's Hospital Foundation Chair in Pediatric Research
- Jeffrey Callen, Lafayette G. Owen, MD Endowed Chair in Dermatology
- David Casey, John J.& Ruby B.Schwab Chair in Social, Community, Family Psychiatry
- Camilo Castillo, Owsley Brown Frazier Endowed Chair of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
- Swapna Chandran, Louisa Bumgardner (Endowed) Professorship in Otolaryngology
- Jason Chesney, James Graham Brown Foundation Chair
- Sohail Contractor, J.T. Ling, M.D. Endowed Chair in Radiology
- Melissa Currie, Kosair Charities Endowed Chair in Pediatric Forensic Medicine
- Douglas Dean, Robert W. Rounsavall, Jr. and Gretchen C. Rounsavall Endowed Chair in Ocular Molecular Biology
- Cynthia Downard, Hirikati S. Nagaraj MD Chair for Pediatric Curgery
- Michael Foster, Jack Henderson Endowed Chair of Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetes
- Sean Francis, Donald E. Baxter Endowed Chair
- Robert Friedland, Mason C. & Mary D. Rudd Endowed Professor of Neurology
- Susan Galandiuk, Price Endowed Professorship in Surgery
- Whitney Goldsberry, Thomas G. Day Jr. Endowed Chair in Gynecologic Oncology
- Ronald Gregg, Preston Pope Joyes Endowed Chair of Biochemical Research
- Ramesh Gupta, Agnes Brown Duggan Chair of Oncological Research
- Brian Harbrecht, Hiram C. Polk, M.D. Chair in Surgery
- Susan Harkema, Owsley Brown Frazier Chair in Neurological Rehabilitation
- Eyas Hattab, A. J. Miller Endowed Chair in Pathology
- Peter Hedera, Raymond Lee Lebby Endowed Professor of Parkinson's Disease Research
- David Hein, Peter K. Knoefel (Endowed) Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
- Michal Hetman, Endowed Professorship in Molecular Signaling
- Dena Howland, Rebecca F. Hammond Endowed Chair For Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Yoannis Imbert-Fernandez, Brown-Forman Chair in Cancer Research
- Mahsa Javid, Kenneth F. Von Roenn M.D. Family Chair in Surgical Endocrinology
- Christopher Jones, Hiram C. Polk, Jr. MD and Mrs. Lily Banerjee Chair in Surgery
- Darryl Kaelin, UofL Endowed Chair for Stroke and Brain Injury Rehabilitation
- Dinesh Kalra, Jewish Hospital Cardiovascular Innovation Institute Scientific Director Chair in Medicine
- LaCreis Kidd, Our Highest Potential Chair in Cancer Research
- Karen Krigger, Endowed Chair-Urban Health Policy
- Kristine Krueger, Nancy Middleton Smith Professorship
- Jerry Lin, Heuser Hearing Institute Professorship in Otology
- David Magnuson, Friends for Michael Endowed Chair in Spinal Cord Injury Research
- Luis Marsano-Obando, Jewish Hospital Distinguished Professorship in Hepatology
- Robert Martin, II, Samuel D. and Lolita S. Weakley Chair in Surgical Oncology
- Kelly McMasters, Ben A. Reid Sr. (Endowed) Professor of Surgery
- Robert Mitchell, Brown Chair of Cancer Biology
- Laura Morton, John C. Wright Endowed Professorship on Aging
- Joseph Neimat, Norton Hospital Endowed Chair in Neurosurgery
- Kenneth Palmer, Helmsley Chair in Plant-Based Pharmaceutical Research
- Juw Won Park, John Trent Ph.D. Endowed Professorship in Bioinformatics
- Mark Pfeifer, VV Cooke Chair of Medicine
- Mariusz Ratajczak, Henry M. and Stella M. Hoenig Endowed Chair
- Rebecca Redman, Geo A Bush Jr. Professorship in Clinical Trials Cancer Research
- Brad Rodu, Endowed Chair in Tobacco Harm Reduction Research
- Mohamed Saad, Carmen & Erma Allegra Endowed Chair
- T. Michael Sabo, James Graham Brown Foundation Chair in Cancer Biophysics
- Jason Smith, Berel L. Abrams, MD Chair in Surgery
- Joern Soltau, Dr. William H. and Mrs. Blondina F. Evans Endowed Chair
- David Stirling, James R. Petersdorf Chair in Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research
- Yi Tan, Carol B. McFerran Chair in Pediatric Diabetes Research
- Sucheta Telang, Brinkley Chair in Lung Cancer Research
- Jarred Thomas, Daniel F. Danzl MD Endowed Chair of Emergency Medicine
- William Tse, Norton Children's Pediatric Oncology Endowed Chair
- Suresh Tyagi, Endowed Professor in Biomedical Research
- Bradon Wilhelmi, Leonard J. Weiner (Endowed) Professorship in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
- Brian Williams, Center for Advanced Neurosurgery Endowed Research Professorship
- Jackson Williams, Humana Chair in International Pediatrics
- Kim Williams, Health Equity Endowed Chair
- Kupper Wintergerst, Wendy L. Novak Endowed Chair of Pediatric Diabetes and Clinical Research
- Jesse Wright, Gotfried and Gisela Kolb Endowed Chair in Outpatient Psychiatry
- Kavitha Yaddanapudi, Henry Vogt Chair in Immuno-Oncology
- Jun Yan, Chair in Translational Research
- Pavel Zahorik, Heuser Hearing Institute Endowed Chair
- Huang-Ge Zhang, The Founder's Chair in Cancer Research
- Maiying Kong, Wendell Cherry Chair in Clinical Trial Research
- Sundar Atre, Endowed Chair of Manufacturing and Materials
- Kevin Chou, Edward Reep Clark Chair of Advanced Manufacturing
- Guruprasad Giridharan, Endowed Chair of Biomechanics
- Steven Koenig, Cardiac Implant Science Endowed Chair
- William McGinley, Endowed Chair in Infrastructure Research
- Olfa Nasraoui, Endowed Chair for E-Commerce
- Dan Popa, Vogt Endowed Chair of Advanced Manufacturing
- Thomas Rockaway, Paul Winnia Endowed Chair of MEMS
- Joshua Spurgeon, e-On Endowed Chair in Sustainability