Member Directory

Facilitating Team Science through Collaboration

To advance translational research from a basic discovery to an actionable improvement in public health typically requires a team science approach involving a variety of stakeholders.

The ICTS facilitates team science by providing access to collaboration opportunities among our members at Washington University and our regional partner institutions. We encourage this partnership development with the ICTS member directory, a resource to find other investigators with similar research interests.

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Tao Xie, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate

I am a neural engineer and neuroscientist with over eleven years of experience in human intracranial electrophysiology, focused on understanding large-scale electrophysiological mechanisms underlying …

Jinbin Xu, MS, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology

Extensively experienced in the biomedical imaging science, with a focus on the development and characterization of probes for receptor and enzyme-based central nervous system (CNS) and oncology …

Kevin Y. Xu, MD, MPH

Instructor in Psychiatry

I am a physician-scientist at Washington University School of Medicine, where I completed my psychiatry residency on the NIH R25 research track and have joined the faculty as a …

Tinghai Xu, PhD

Assistant Professor

My lab is dedicated to investigating the complex crosstalk between epigenetic mechanisms including DNA methylation, histone modification, and chromatin remodeling, and their pivotal role in disease …

Zhichen Xu, MA

Predoctoral Trainee

biostatistics, longitudinal data analysis, precision medicine

Dmitriy A. Yablonskiy, PhD

Professor of Radiology

Research is focused on biophysical mechanisms behind MR signal formation in biological systems and development of new MRI techniques that allow quantitation of biological tissue structure and …

Salim Yakdan, MD, MSCI

Research Fellow

Our laboratory is dedicated to advancing the field of spine surgery by harnessing the power of data-driven insights. At the heart of our research lies a profound interest in leveraging …

Yan Yan, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery (General Surgery)

Risk model development, validation and updating; causal inference; prostate cancer outcome research.

Joanna C. Yang, MD, MPH

I am interested in the interactions between novel drugs and radiation therapy in the treatment of hematologic malignancies and breast cancers. I am also interested in the value of cancer care.

Lan Yang, PhD

Edwin H. and Florence G. Skinner Professor of Engineering

My group is interested in exploiting nanofabrication and photonic technologies to develop a multi-function sensing system capable of ultra-sensitive and label-free detection and measurement of small …

Elizabeth L. Yanik Rowlands, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

The primary aim of Dr. Yanik’s research is to identify opportunities for prevention of musculoskeletal disease. Her current research focuses on understanding risk factors for the development of …

Hiroko Yano, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

The age-dependent dysfunction and progressive loss of selective neurons are key characteristics of neurodegenerative diseases including Huntington’s disease (HD). Despite intensive efforts to …

Melanie L. Yarbrough, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology and Immunology

My research is mainly in the field of clinical microbiology. My primary research interests are focused on the evaluation and interpretation of methods for the diagnosis of genitourinary diseases, …

Aecha M. Ybarra, MD, MSC

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

My area of clinical and research interest revolves around improving outcomes in children with heart failure, those receiving mechanical support in the form of a ventricular assist device, and …

Zeyuan Ye, PhD

Computational neuroscience. Specificly, we use artificial intelligence as a tool to understand how the vision

Andrew Yeh, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatric Surgery

Pediatric trauma

Po-Yin Yen, PhD, RN

Assistant Professor of Medicine

I am a registered nurse with informatics training and research experience, especially in the areas of health information technology (HIT) usability evaluation, human-computer interaction, data …

Patrick P. Yeung, MD

Faculty, Director for the SLU Center for Endometriosis

Excision for endometriosis Pathophysiology of endometriosis, Improved diagnostics, Improved therapeutics Adhesion prevention

Jason J. Yi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neuroscience

Proteostasis and cell signaling in neurodevelopmental disorders including Angelman syndrome and autism spectrum disorders.

Wayne M. Yokoyama, MD

Sam and Audrey Loew Levin Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology)

Our laboratory is interested in basic mechanisms of innate immunity, and the immune response to viruses. We have a particular interest in the receptors expressed by natural killer cells, and the …

Esma S. Yolcu, MSC, PhD

Dr. Yolcu has a significant interest in using hematopoietic stem cells for the treatment of bone marrow failure syndrome and hematological malignancies as well as a means of immunomodulation to …

Andrew S. Yoo, PhD

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology

The general goal of my research is to understand molecular mechanisms underlying the specification of cell types and developing methods to alter the fates of cells in vitro and in vivo. We recently …

Sang Gune K. Yoo, MD

Clinical Fellow

Cardiovascular Disease, Implementation Science, Prevention, Cardio-Oncology

Nathaniel W. York, PhD

Instructor

Exploring the impact of KATP mutations on health and disease. My focus is specifically on KATP mutants associated with Cantu syndrome and the effect on gastrointestinal smooth muscle.

Mitsukuni Yoshida, MD, PhD

Fellow

I am interested in how cellular aging and metabolic changes impacts age-associated chronic diseases.

Gina L. Yosten, PhD

Associate Professor

My interests include the role of G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), particularly orphan GPCRs, in the pathogenesis of obesity- and diabetes-associated cardiovascular disease.

Andrew L. Young, MD, PhD

Heme/Onc Fellow

I am interested in the natural history of hematologic malignancies, clonal evolution, clonal hematopoiesis and cancer detection.

Laine Young-Walker, MD

Chair Department of Psychiatry

Trauma and Early Child

Jennifer Yu, MD, MPHS

Abdominal transplant surgery, transplant patient access to care, organ donation and transplant advocacy, surgical outcomes research, patient safety, process improvement, patient risk assessment

Jane Y. Yuan, MSCI

My area of research is in cerebrovascular neurological surgery studying the genetic determinants of early brain injury following subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Carla M. Yuede, MA, PhD

Associate Professor of Psychiatry

My research involves combining techniques to uncover aspects about neurodegenerative disease processes. I am primarily focused on the factors influencing brain Aß dynamics in mouse models of AD, …

Roger D. Yusen, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine

My research team focuses its efforts on technology assessment in pulmonary medicine. We study the characteristics and outcomes of patients with end-stage lung disease, especially those with chronic …

Iris Zachary, MS, PhD

Director of the Missouri Cancer Registry and Research Center

Public health informatics, cancer informatics, and translational research.

Jeffrey M. Zacks, PhD,

Professor of Psychology

My lab studies higher perception and cognition, in particular event understanding and spatial cognition. We use a combination of behavioral studies in healthy young adults, older adults, and …

Craig M. Zaidman, MD

Professor of Neurology

I am interested in developing and assessing new techniques using ultrasound in the evaluation and assessment of neuromuscular disorders.

Alan Zajarias, MD

Professor of Medicine

I am internventional cardiologist with a strong interest in valvular heart disease and catheter based therapies for these problems. I encounter patients in a specialized valve clinic that where …

Pavel Zakharov, PhD

Postdoc Research Associate

We study autoimmune type one diabetes using the non-obese diabetic mice (NOD) as a model

Dominic B. Zanaboni, MD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Innovation of transcatheter cardiac therapies, database outcome clinical research.

Augusto Zani, MD, PhD

Professor of Surgery

My clinical and research interests focus on fetal and neonatal surgical conditions that remain associated with high morbidity and mortality. In particular, my lab addresses these conditions by …

Mark A. Zaydman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology & Immunol (PEFA)

I am interested in the development and application of statistical methods to model complex systems and processes in biology and medicine.

Mohamed A. Zayed, MD, Other, PhD

Assistant Professor of Surgery, Molecular Cell Biology and Biomedical Engineering

My translational research program is multi-pronged and focuses on: 1) Patients infected with COVID-19, who manifest a wide variety of clinical signs/symptoms including significantly high rates of …

Allyson R. Zazulia, MD

Professor of Neurology

Cerebrovascular regulation (PET) and chronological MRI changes following intracerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and traumatic brain injury; amyloid binding in …

Kayla Zebrowski, MSW

NIMH T32 Pre-Doctoral Trainee

Kayla is interested in Dissemination & Implementation Science, especially with mental health services and behavioral health, to help close the research to practice gap. Her previous research and …

Jennifer A. Zellers

Assistant Professor

My work aims to improve patient function by understanding tendon structure-function relationships and elucidating how tendons respond to the systemic environment and intervention.

John M. Zempel, MD, PhD

Professor of Neurology

I am interested in using advanced imaging technologies to assist in the care and evaluation of patients with intractable epilepsy and in using the unique studies we perform on patients with …

Bo Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor of Developmental Biology

My research is to understand the evolution and adaption of human regulatory networks, with a focus on the impact of these processes on human health and disease. In particular, we investigate the …

Hailei Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

My research interests focus on proton therapy related topics including FLASH therapy, online adaptive proton therapy, proton imaging, and Monte Carlo dose calculation.

Hanwen Zhang, PhD

Assistant Professor

My research focuses on the design, synthesis and validation of radioisotope- or dual reporter- (radioisotope and fluorescent) conjugated ligands for in vivo targeted imaging of receptors, enzymes and …

Heming Zhang, MS

DBBS Graduate Research Assistant

I use computational and deep learning models, especially graph neural networks, to analyse cells signaling interactions and predict drug combinations effect.

Jin Zhang, PhD

Associate Professor

My research interests include computational biology and bioinformatics as they apply to cancer genomics and radiation oncology. My doctoral work focused on developing structural variation discovery …