17 Faculty Members Vested as Endowed Professors
October 13, 2025
2025 Faculty Honorees
Mohamed E. Abazeed, MD, PhD
William N. Brand, MD Professor of Radiation Oncology
Mohamed Abdel-Mohsen, PhD
Margaret Gray Morton Professor of Medicine
Issam Ben-Sahra, PhD
Thomas D. Spies Professor of Genetic Metabolism
Mark D. Bevan, PhD
Rose, James, Sarah, and Max Meltzer Professor of Neuroscience
Katherine L.B. Borden, PhD
Hospira Foundation Professor of Translational Cancer Biology
Lee A. Cooper, PhD
Joseph C. Calandra Research Professor of Pathology and Toxicology
Matthew J. Feinstein, MD
Thomas D. Spies Professor of Cardiometabolic Inflammation
Judd F. Hultquist, PhD
Dr. Robert L. Murphy Professor of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Peng Ji, MD, PhD
Marie A. Fleming Research Professor of Pathology
Anish R. Kadakia, MD
Potocsnak Family Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Kiarri N. Kershaw, PhD, MPH
Eileen M. Foell Professor
Jennie H. Kwon, DO
Gene Stollerman Professor of Medicine
Shishir K. Maithel, MD
William T. Bovie Professor of Surgery
Joseph R. Mazzulli, PhD
Dimitri Krainc Professor of Neurology
Farrah J. Mateen, MD, PhD
Dr. Charles L. Mix Research Professor of Neurology
Hidayatullah G. Munshi, MD
Ann Lurie Professor of Hematology and Oncology
Michael J. Rosen, MD
James R. Hines, MD Professor of Surgery
Seventeen Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine faculty members recently appointed to endowed professorships were formally recognized at a group investiture ceremony on October 3.
Family, friends, and colleagues gathered at The Peninsula Hotel in Chicago to celebrate the honorees’ prestigious appointments. During the ceremony, each newly appointed endowed professor was presented with a medal, symbolizing their achievement.
Feinberg has nearly 240 endowed professorships, which represent the university’s highest faculty honor. Reserved for the most distinguished physicians and scientists, professorships bring lasting prestige to the donor, honoree, and institution.
“Thanks to generous medical school donors, that number continues to grow, aiding us in our endeavor to double Feinberg’s research enterprise and continue our trajectory towards the very top of academic medical centers,” said Eric G. Neilson, MD, vice president for Medical Affairs and Lewis Landsberg Dean, said at the event.
Mark D. Bevan, PhD, was vested as the first Rose, James, Sarah, and Max Meltzer Professor of Neuroscience. James Lloyd Meltzer ’56 ’60 MD, a proud Class of 1960 alumnus and longtime donor to the medical school, established the professorship through a bequest prior to his passing in March 2024. Dr. Meltzer and his wife, Rose, who passed away in 2023, named the professorship in honor of Dr. Meltzer’s parents, Sarah and Max.
Dr. Bevan’s research focuses on the basal ganglia, structures in the brain that control movement and are impaired in patients with diseases like Parkinson’s and Huntington’s. Using advanced tools to study brain cell activity in mice, his laboratory aims to uncover the root causes of these disorders and develop therapies that restore healthy brain function.
Dr. Bevan earned his PhD from the University of Manchester and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Oxford and the University of Tennessee. In 2012, he was honored with the Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS). He later co-chaired the Basal Ganglia Gordon Research Conference in 2016 and 2018.
“The award of the Rose, James, Sarah, and Max Meltzer Professorship in Neuroscience is both a great honor and inspiration. Over the course of a long and distinguished clinical career spanning six decades, Dr. Meltzer’s dedication to his patients was legendary," Dr. Bevan said. "The endowment will have a significant impact on our work focused on the pathogenic mechanisms underlying Parkinson’s disease and Huntington’s disease. I sincerely appreciate Dr. Meltzer’s gift and will do my very best to carry forth his legacy.”