Meet the Team

  • Mehul Suthar, PhD

    Principal Investigator

  • Kevin Silva, MS, PMP, LSSBB

    Program and Research Manager

  • Alberto Moreno, MD

    Associate Professor of Medicine, Affiliate Scientist

  • Joe Rouse, MS, PhD

    Assistant Academic Research Scientist

  • Bushra Wali, PhD

    Assistant Research Scientist

  • Sungjin (John) Kim, Ph.D.

    Assistant Research Scientist

  • Meenakshi Kar, PhD

    Postdoctoral fellow

  • Shilu Malakar, PhD

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Katharine Floyd, M.A.

    Senior Research Specialist

  • Jacob Vander Velden

    Lead Research Specialist

  • Madison Ellis, B.S.

    Lead Research Specialist

  • Aayush Patel

    Research Specialist

  • Austin Leech

    Graduate student

  • Saman Baral

    Graduate Student

  • Madeleine Rasche

    Graduate Student

Past Lab Members:

James R. Bowen, PhD

IMP Graduate Student 2013-2017

Translational medicine lead at Relay Therapeutics

Daphne Ma, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2015

Research Scientist at Merck, Philadelphia, PA.

Renan Aguilar-Valenzuela, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow 2015-2019

Postdoctoral fellow at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH

Venkata Edara, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow 2020 – 2022

Postdoctoral fellow at Emory University, Dr. Ann Chahroudi, Atlanta, GA

Kathryn Moore, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow 2020 – 2024

Postdoctoral fellow, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA

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Stephanie Foster, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow 2021 – 2023

Microbiologist at US Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Manhattan, KS

Matthew Zimmerman, MD

Graduate Student 2014-2020

Primary Care Track Internal Medicine PGY3

Justin O’Neal, PhD

Graduate Student 2015-2019

Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under the direction of Dr. Christina Spiropoulou

Abigail Vanderheiden, PhD

Graduate Student, 2017-2021

Postdoctoral fellow, Diamond Laboratory, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO

Anand Marangattu, MD

Undergraduate Student, 2015

UT San Antonio; MD; Resident PGY4

Choongho Lee, PharmD

Visiting Scholar, 2021 – 2022

Associate Professor, Dongguk University College of Pharmacy

Meredith Davis-Gardner, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist, 2020-2023

Biologist, Centers for Disease Control (CDC/NCIRD/CORVD)

Shilpi Jain, PhD

Assistant Research Scientist, 2023-2024

Biologist, Centers for Disease Control