Meet the
Team :Meet our principal investigator, Jonathan Silva, PhD FAHA
Professor of Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science and Engineering
Director of Diversity
Whitaker Hall, Room 200G
(314) 935-8837
admin@silvalab.science
Jonathan Silva CV
Professor Silva joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis in July 2012. He received the prestigious Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface (CASI), which is given to scientists with backgrounds in physics, mathematics, computer science, and engineering who want to explore the new frontier of biology.
Current lab members

Jonathan Moreno
Assistant Prof of Medicine
Education: BS, Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, UMass ‘06; MD/PhD, Cornell University ‘13; Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow, WUSTL ‘17-'22

Heather Struckman
Post doctoral Fellow, BME, WUSTL
Education: BS, Biomedical Engineering, University of South Carolina '18; PhD, Biomedical Engineering, The Ohio State University '23

Emily Wagner
PhD Candidate, BME, WUSTL
Education: BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Druv Bhagavan
MD/PhD Candidate (MSTP) Biomedical Engineering (BME)
Education: BS, Biomedical Engineering, Yale University ‘16

Lucas (Chang Hi) Lee
PhD Candidate, BME, WUSTL
Education: BS, BME, WUSTL ‘20, MS, Computer Science & Data Analytics and Statistics, WUSTL '22
Alumni Spotlight

Paweorn (Eve) Angsutararux, PhD
Post doctoral Fellow, University of California, Davis
BS, University of Pennsylvania '17, PhD, Washington University '22

Kathryn Mangold, PhD
Research Fellow , Mayo Clinic Rochester, Minnesota
BA, St Olaf College '14; PhD, Washington University '21

Khrystyna Sukhanova
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Washington University School of Medicine
BS, MS Kiev State University, Ukraine ‘90; PhD, A.A. Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology, Ukraine ‘16,

Zoltan Varga, PhD
Faculty/Biophysics/University of Debrecen, Hungary
PhD, University of Debrecen, Hungary '2000 ; Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Washington University '13 -'14

Wandi Zhu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
BS, Stony Brook University '13 ; PhD, Washington University '18

Taylor Voelker
PhD candidate , Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of California, Davis

Billy Kang
MD/PhD Candidate (MSTP) Biomedical Engineering (BME)
BS, John Hopkins University '14

Kuo Chan Weng, PhD
Director of WashU iPSC Core Facility
PhD, Texas A&M University '14 ; Postdoctoral Research Fellow '17- '20

Christopher Andrews, PhD
Systems Engineer/Sentiar
PhD, Washington University '19 ; Postdoctoral Research Fellow '19-'20

Carlota Abella
PhD candidate, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
BS, Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, The University of Manchester ‘19

Nicholas Bach
BS, Computer Science and Financial Engineering, WUSTL '20, MS, Computer Science, WUSTL '21