Meet the
Team :Meet our principal investigator, Jonathan Silva, PhD
Dennis & Barbara Kessler Career Development Associate Professor
Whitaker Hall, Room 290G
(314) 935-8837
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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

Jingyi Shi
Research Assistant Professor
Education: BS, Peking University '83; PhD, State University of New York at Stony Brook '94

Jonathan Moreno
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Education: BS, Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology, UMass ‘06; MD/PhD, Cornell University ‘13; Cardiovascular Medicine Fellow, WUSTL ‘17

Guohui Zhang
Staff Research Scientist
Education: BS, Chemistry, University of Science &Technology of China ‘98; PhD, Chemistry, Missouri University of Science and Technology ‘04

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

Carlota Abella
Research Technician II
Education: BS, Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, The University of Manchester ‘19

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
Alumni Spotlight

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

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