Current Members
Matt Wilson, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Anna Menshikh, MD
Lab Manager
Matt Wilson Lab, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Rick Welch, B.S.
Senior Research Specialist
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Hal Love, PhD
Research Assistant III
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Keiko Takahashi, B.S.
Research Assistant III
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Peyton Hickman, MS
Graduate Student (MSTP)
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Jen Peek, B.S.
Graduate Student (MSTP)
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Julie Qi
Undergraduate Student
Division of Nephrology and Hypertension
Lab Alumni
| Name | Role in Lab | Current Position |
|---|---|---|
Joseph E. Doherty, MD, PhD | Graduate Student | Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine, University of Mississippi |
Sunandan Saha, PhD, MBA | Graduate Student | Head of Process Development-New Modalities, Sartorius |
Lauren Woodard, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
Sai Saridey, MBBS | Postdoctoral Fellow | Associate Professor, Baylor College of Medicine |
Dan Galvan, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Instructor, MD Anderson Cancer Center |
Tom Beckermann, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Lecturer in Biology, Belmont University |
Richard O'Neil, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor, Medical University of South Carolina |
Kevin Abney, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow | |
Morgan Black, MD | Pre-doctoral Student | Resident, Urology, Indiana University |
Laura Downes, MD | Pre-doctoral Student | Resident, Radiation Oncology, University of Kentucky |
Lena Feleke | Pre-doctoral Student | Vanderbilt SSMV student at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School* |
Robert Kruse, MD, PhD | Pre-doctoral Student | Resident, Pathology, Johns Hopkins |
Demetri Maxim | Pre-doctoral Student | Stanford University |
Eyuel Terefe, MD | Pre-doctoral Student | Resident, Psychiatry, University of Texas - Tyler |
* Lena Feleke is a top 40 finalist in Regeneron Science Talent Search
Lena Feleke, a student from the School for Science and Math at Vanderbilt’s (SSMV) senior class, also a student at Martin Luther King Jr. Magnet High School, has been named as Tennessee’s only Top 40 Finalist in this year’s Regeneron Science Talent Search. This national competition recognizes and empowers the most promising young scientists in the U.S. who are creating the ideas and solutions that solve our most urgent challenges. Lena completed a project titled, “Assessing the Effects of Transcriptional and Post-Transcriptional Regulatory Elements on SLC3A1 Transgene Expression for Type A Cystinuria Gene Therapy.” Her research was focused on examining and testing variations in a gene that could be used in new treatments for a certain type of chronic kidney disease.
Lena’s work was done in the laboratory of Matthew Wilson, MD, PhD, in Vanderbilt Medical Center’s Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension. Lena’s direct mentor was Jennifer Peek, an MD-PhD student in Vanderbilt’s Medical Scientist Training Program who graduated herself from the SSMV in 2014. It was a wonderful full-circle moment for Ms. Peek to mentor a student herself after her career path was inspired by her SSMV research laboratory experience years ago. Congrats to Lena and Jen!
