OUR TEAM

CURRENT MEMBERS

John T. Wilson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Principal Investigator

Karan Arora, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Vijaya Bharti, Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Youn Jae Jung, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Blaise Kimmel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
PhRMA Foundation
Postdoctoral Fellowship

Alex Kwiatkowski, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lucinda Pastora

ChBE Ph.D. Candidate
NIH T32
NSF GRFP

Taylor Sheehy

BME Ph.D. Candidate
NSF GRFP

Hayden Pagendarm

BME Ph.D. Candidate
NIH T32
NSF GRFP

Payton Stone

ChBE Ph.D. Candidate
NIH T32
NSF GRFP

Rachael Smith

PMI Graduate
Student
NIH T32

Neil Chada

PMI Graduate
Student
NIH T32

Jake Schulman

BME Graduate Student

Angie Martinez

M.S. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Jonah Finkelstein

ChBE Undergraduate

LAB ALUMNI

Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Faculty
Feng Qiu, Ph.D. (current: Principal Investigator at Sichaun University)
Moe Wehbe, Ph.D. (current: Senior Scientist at Flagship Pioneering)
Sema Sevimli, Ph.D. (current: Senior Medical Science Liaison – Breast Oncology at Daiichi Sankyo)
Lihong Bishop, M.D., Ph.D. (current: Research Scientist at Atrium Health Levine Cancer Institute)

Graduate students
Dan Shae, Ph.D. (current: Scientist at Amgen)
Max Jacobson, Ph.D. (current: Scientist Biosurgery R&D at Ethicon)
Frances Knight, Ph.D. (current: Fogarty Global Health Research Fellow at NIH)
Kyle Garland, Ph.D. (current: Senior Scientist I, Genetic Medicine at Eterna Therapeutics)
Carcia Carson, Ph.D. (current: Medical Science Liaison – Oncology at Natera)
Jessalyn Baljon, Ph.D.
Christian Palmer, Ph.D.

Research Staff
Kyle Becker (current: Biological Safety Officer at Vanderbilt University)

Undergraduates
Pedro Seber (current: Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program, MIT)
Chuong (Ben) Nguyen (SyBBURE Program; current: U. Washington MolE Ph.D. program)
Xinyi He (current: Associate Software Engineer at Capital One)
Jonah Levine (current: EDI Engineer at Epic)
Duncan Morgan (current: Chemical Engineering Ph.D. program, MIT)
Khloe Gordan (current: Bioengineering Ph.D. program, MIT)
Zachary Morrisey (current: Project and Process Engineering at FOCUS)
Anna Caldwell (current: Georgia-Pacific LLC)
Gilda Naka (current: Johnson Matthey)
Vivek Shah (current: Michael B. Keegan Traveling Fellow)
Harrison Paul (current: Molecular Engineering Ph.D. program, University of Chicago)
Lorena Cruz (current: Chemical and Biological Engineering B.S. program, Vanderbilt University)

Summer programs
Aamina Dandy, Tuskegee University (current: Vanderbilt MSTP student)
Casey Van Kaer, Northeastern University
Kasey Coleman, Michigan State University (current: Collins Aerospace)
Kathryn (Bumila) Collins, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (current: Sanofi Genzyme)
Lauren Hubert, University of Rhode Island