Dr. Wilson completed his undergraduate studies at Oregon State University in 2002, where he trained in a number of academic and industrial research labs, including the Oregon Medical Laser Center and Bayer Pharmaceuticals. He went on to pursue his doctoral studies at the Georgia Institute of Technology, under the mentorship of Dr. Elliot L. Chaikof, M.D., Ph.D. (currently at Harvard) in the Department of Surgery at Emory University and the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech. Dr. Wilson subsequently joined the laboratory of Patrick Stayton in the Department of Bioengineering at the University of Washington for a postdoctoral fellowship in the area of molecularly engineered materials for the delivery of vaccines and immunotherapeutics. Dr. Wilson was awarded an Irvington Institute-Cancer Research Institute Fellowship under the co-mentorship of Dr. Mary (Nora) Disis, M.D., head of the Tumor Vaccine Group at the University of Washington. Founded upon cutting-edge and multidisciplinary research in the areas of biomaterials, molecular engineering, cell-based therapy, drug delivery and immunotherapy, the Laboratory for Immunomodulatory Biomaterials was launched in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Vanderbilt University in January 2014.