WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS - Key Persons


Aaron Ammerman

Job Titles:
  • Program: Biochemistry Biophysics and Structural Biology

Aaron DiAntonio

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Adam Kepecs

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Adrianus Boon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alexander Bradley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Alison Antes

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Andrea Soranno

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Andreas Burkhalter

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Andrew Richards

Job Titles:
  • Director, Admissions & Recruitment, Information Systems
Andrew directs the activities of the admissions and recruiting staff and oversees systems information technology for DBBS.

Andrew Yoo

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Arpana Agrawal

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Arpita Bose

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Barak A. Cohen

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Brian T. Edelson

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Cami Spampani

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, DBBS

Carey-Ann Burnham

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Carlos A. Botero

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Carlos Bernal-Mizrachi


Carlos Cruchaga

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Carmen Bergom

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Catheryn Bolick

Job Titles:
  • Program: Cancer Biology

Christina L. Stallings

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Christopher N. Topp

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Cindy Vigueira

Job Titles:
  • Director, Curriculum and Graduate Programs
​Cindy provides leadership and oversight for the overall management of the curriculum, academic policies, career development and pathways​.

Daniel J. Brennan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Daved H. Fremont

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

David Bark

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

David Bundy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

David Kast

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Deanna Barch

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chair

Dennis Barbour

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Dustin Baldridge

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Ernest St. John Simms

Job Titles:
  • Ernest St. John Simms Distinguished Professor

Gautam Dantas

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Gaya Amarasinghe

Job Titles:
  • Alumni Endowed Professor

Ghazaleh Ashrafi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Gregory D. Longmore

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Gustav Akk

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Harold Burton

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Harrison W. Gabel

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Hema Adhikari

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Irving Boime

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Janine Bijsterbosch

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jeffrey J. Bednarski II

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Current Advisor

Jeffrey R. Millman

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Jennifer Alexander-Brett

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jeremy Buhler

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Joanna Abraham

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

John Atkinson

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Jonathan A. Myers

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Jonathan Brestoff

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Jonathan Kipnis

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Joseph Adjei

Job Titles:
  • Program: Plant and Microbial Biosciences / Current Advisor

Joshua Blodgett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Juan Sebastian Tello

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Juliane Bubeck

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Chief

Keith B. Hengen

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Kelly Bolton

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Kendall Blumer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kevin Black

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Kodi S. Ravichandran

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Kyunghee Choi

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Laura Bierut

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Laura Campisi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Lee Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Lee Hunter Distinguished Professor and Chair

Luis Batista

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Magdalene Brown

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Marco Colonna

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Martha W. Bagnall

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Current Advisor

Matthew Albrecht

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Curator of Conservation Biology

Matthew Bersi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Matthew Brier

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Matthew L. Goodwin

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Maxim Artyomov

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Megan T. Baldridge

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Current Advisor

Meghan Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Michael Belloy

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Michael Brent

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michael S. Diamond

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Mike Jones II

Job Titles:
  • Director, Community Engagement & Co - Curricular Experience

Mikhail Berezin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Monika Bambouskova

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Naresha Saligrama

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Nicole Brossier

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Oscar M. Harari

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Patricia Ribeiro Pereira

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Paul A. Cibis

Job Titles:
  • Distinguished Professor

Paul Bridgman

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Peng Yuan

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Peter Brunner

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Peter Burgers

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Petra Anne Levin

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Philip Bayly

Job Titles:
  • Lee Hunter Distinguished Professor and Chair

Priyanka Verma

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Rachel M. Penczykowski

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Ram Dixit

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Randall Bateman

Job Titles:
  • Biomedical Informatics and Data Science / Research Summary / Alzheimer Disease Pathophysiology / Key Words

Ream Al-Hasani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Rebecca Bart

Job Titles:
  • Associate Faculty Member

Rita Brookheart

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Robert C. Atkins

Job Titles:
  • Obesity Research in Medicine

Robert D. Schreiber

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Robert W. Gereau

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Robyn S. Klein

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Ron Bose

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Rosie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager
Rosie works to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in DBBS, at WashU and in the greater St. Louis community by promoting a culture where trainees enrolled in our programs can bring their full, authentic selves into our environments.

Ryan Agnew

Job Titles:
  • Program: Immunology / Current Advisor

Ryan Bogdan

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

S. Kerry Kornfeld

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Sadia Afrin

Job Titles:
  • Program: Immunology

Samantha A. Morris

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Sarah Ackerman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Scott J. Hultgren

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Shabaana A. Khader

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Siyuan Ding

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Steven Bassnett

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Steven Brody

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Steven Mennerick

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Graduate Education

Susan Mackinnon

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor
Pan D, Schellhardt L, Acevedo-Cintron JA, Hunter D, Snyder-Warwick AK, Mackinnon SE, Wood MD. 2022 IL-4 expressing cells are recruited to nerve after injury and promote regeneration. Exp Neurol, 347():113909. PMCID: PMC8887027

Tamara L. Doering

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Tammie Benzinger

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Tao Che

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Tarin Bigley

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Thomas Baranski

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Thomas Brett

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Thomas G. Kannampallil

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Timothy M. Miller

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Ting Wang

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

Todd Braver

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Wayne Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Wayne M. Yokoyama

Job Titles:
  • Current Advisor

William Greenleaf Eliot

Job Titles:
  • Professor

William Palm

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Yehuda Ben-Shahar

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Yin Cao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Yousef Abu-Amer

Job Titles:
  • Molecular Cell Biology / Developmental Regenerative and Stem Cell Biology / Research Summary

Yu-Qing Cao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor