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