Lab Updates

Andrew Michael joined our lab through the Vanderbilt Medical Student Research Training Program (SRTP), funded through the NIDDK T35 Training Grant. He presented his work at the NIDDK/SRTP Symposium. He has stayed with the lab to continue working on his project involving altered basal nuclear shape in EoE.

Matt Buendia was awarded the 2025 NASPGHAN Foundation/Sanofi/Regeneron Young Investigator Development Award for the Study of Pediatric Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders. This will help fund his research program for 2 more years. Congrats!

This past summer, Anna Brooke Harris studied the role of selenium in naïve CD4+ T cell proliferation and polarization through the Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program. She presented her research at the Fall 2025 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Research Symposium. She has stayed with the lab to continue working on her project for her senior Honors Research.