Former Lab Members

Graduate Students

NameLab roleYearsCurrent role
Vineetha Zacharia, Ph.D.Graduate student2011-2015Senior Scientist,
Willow Biosciences
Angela Collins, M.D., Ph.D.MSTP student2012-2015Orthopedic surgery resident, 
McLaren Regional Medical Center 
Flint, Mich.
Chelsea Stamm, Ph.D.Graduate student2012-2019Postdoctoral fellow,
University of Washington
Breanna Pasko, Ph.D.Graduate student2012-2020Medical Affairs Advisor,
Galderma
Haaris Khan, M.D., Ph.D.MSTP student2016-2021Intern,
Methodist Hospital, Dallas, TX
Cody Ruhl, Ph.D.Graduate student2016-2022Clinical Data Scientist, Reata Pharmaceuticals

Fellows/Instructors

NameLab roleYearsCurrent role
Vidhya Nair, M.D.Postdoctoral fellow2012-2017Medical Science Liaison, Sanofi
Zi Jiang, M.D.Otolaryngology Fellow2013-2014Assistant Professor, UT Health Houston, Texas
Luis Franco, Ph.D.Postdoctoral fellow2013-2018Assistant Professor, 
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
Bonnie Prokesch, M.D.Infectious Diseases Fellow2014Assistant Professor, 
Internal Medicine 
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine,
UT Southwestern
Caitlyn Scharn, Ph.D.Postdoctoral fellow2014-2017Associate Director,
Medical Science Liaison at Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Sujittra Chaisavaneeyakorn, M.D.Pediatric Infectious Diseases fellow2016-2018Faculty, Samitivej Srinakarin Hospital,
Bangkok, Thailand
Garima Arora, Ph.D.Postdoctoral fellow2019-2021Post-doctoral fellow, Texas Biomed
Yang Liu, Ph.D.Postdoctoral fellow2020-2021Assistant Professor,
UT Houston, McGovern Medical School
Josephine Thinwa, M.D., Ph.D.Infectious Diseases fellow2020-2023Assistant Professor,
Internal Medicine, 
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, 
UT Southwestern
Salwa Sebti, Ph.D.Assistant Instructor2020-2023Assistant Instructor,
UT Southwestern

Students

NameLab roleYearsCurrent role
Patrick CherrySURF student2012Senior Scientist,
Twist Bioscience
Olatunde BadejoSTARS student2013Orthopedic surgery resident,
Hospital for Special Surgery, NY
Molly ZumbroSURF student2013Pediatric neurologist, Children’s National Hospital,
Washington D.C.
Yesenia ReyesGreen Fellow, UTD2014Undergraduate, 
UT Dallas
You WuSURF student2014Master's in Public Health student, 
Harvard University
Andrea Martinez AguirreSURF student2015Postdoctoral Fellow,
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
Elizabeth GaylordSURF student2016Graduate Student,
Washington University of St. Louis
Mae LewisSURF student2017Graduate student,
UT Austin
Gina BitarSURF student2018Graduate student,
UT San Antonio
Charley EdgarSURF student2019MSTP student,
UT Southwestern

Personnel

NameLab roleYearsCurrent role
Hyunjin Shin, DVMVisiting Scientist2013-2016Professor of Veterinary Medicine,
Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea
Lexy Kindt, D.O.Research assistant2015-2017General Surgery resident,
Hennepin Healthcare
Paxton CruzResearch assistant2018-2019Freelance writer
Jorge GalvanResearch assistant2018-2019QA Automation Engineer, Aya Healthcare
Frankie ZhaoResearch assistant2019-2021Research Associate,
Ampersand Biomedicines
Christopher XavierResearch assistant2021-2023Medical student, 
Meharry Medical College