Principal Investigator

Matthew H. Wilson, M.D., Ph.D.

email: matthew.wilson@vumc.org

Current lab members

Wentian Luo, M.D., Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor

Rick Welch, B.S.

Senior Research Specialist

Anna Menshikh, M.D.

Lab Manager

Jen Peek, B.S.

Graduate Student (MSTP)

Hal Love, Ph.D.

Research Assistant III

Julie Qi

Undergraduate Student

Past lab members

Graduate students

Joseph E. Doherty, M.D., Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi

Sunandan Saha, Ph.D., MBA - Head of Process Development-New Modalities, Sartorius

Postdoctoral Fellows

Lauren Woodard, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Sai Saridey, M.B.B.S. - Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine

Dan Galvan, Ph.D. - Instructor, MD Anderson Cancer Center

Tom Beckermann, Ph.D. - Lecturer in Biology, Belmont University

Richard O'Neil, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina

Kevin Abney, Ph.D.

Pre-doctoral students

Robert Kruse, M.D., Ph.D. - resident, Pathology, Johns Hopkins

Eyuel Terefe, M.D. - resident, Psychiatry, University of Texas - Tyler

Laura Downes, M.D. - resident, Radiation Oncology, University of Kentucky

Demetri Maxim, Stanford University 

Lena Feleke, Vanderbilt SSMV student at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School, Top 40 Finalist in 2025 Regeneron Science Talent Search

Wilson and Woodard lab taco Tuesday, summer 2021!

Wilson lab Topgolf 2023!