Current Lab Members

Philip J Budge, MD, PhD
Dr. Budge joined the faculty at Washington University in 2014. He received his undergraduate degree at Brigham Young University and his MD and PhD degrees from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Following residency in internal medicine at Vanderbilt, he joined the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, GA, where he became immersed in programmatic research focused on global elimination of lymphatic filariasis (LF). He then returned to Vanderbilt to complete his fellowship in infectious diseases.
Amy Rush
Senior Research Technician
Linda Djune Yemeli
PhD student at University of Yaoundé

Jaimee Hall
Infectious Disease Fellow
Nikhilesh Joardar
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Richie Hofstra
Undergraduate Researcher
Olivia Emerson
Undergraduate Researcher
Christianna Swift
Undergraduate Researcher
Former Lab Members
Carly Herbert
Undergraduate Student, 2016-2017
Celia Zhou
WUSM Summer Research Program in Global Health, 2018
Georgia Redd
Undergraduate Student, 2018-2019
Grant Owen
Undergraduate Student, 2018-2019
Phil Glaessner
Undergraduate Student, 2018-2019
Irene Hamlin
Undergraduate Student, 2018-2021
Aja Drain
Undergraduate Student, 2019-2020