People

Prospective graduate students: Please apply through Virginia Tech BMVS Graduate Program.

Xin Mimi Luo, PhD, Principal Investigator

Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA

BS, Peking University 北京大学

MS, PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Postdoc, California Institute of Technology

Email: xinluo@vt.edu; Phone: 540-231-0977

Current Lab Members

Ran Lu, PhD, Senior Research Associate

Noah Oakland, MD/PhD candidate

Rana Estaleen, PhD candidate

Caitlin Armstrong, PhD candidate

Tian Xu, PhD candidate

Postbac, PhD & Postdoc Alumni

Xiaofeng Liao, PhD (Scientist, biotech industry)

Qinghui Mu, PhD (Scientist, biotech industry)

Jingjing Ren, MD, PhD (Scientist, biotech industry)

Michael Edwards, DVM, PhD (Clinical Assistant Professor, VMCVM)

Brianna Swartwout, PhD

Jiangdi Mao (PhD student, Zhejiang University)

Jing Zhu, PhD (Scientist, biotech industry)

Leila Abdelhamid, PhD (Postdoc, FDA)

Fernando Garcia (PhD student, Brown University)

Xavier Cabana-Puig, PhD (Scientist, biotech industry)

Michael Appiah, PhD (Postdoc, Mount Sinai)

Razan Alajoleen, PhD (Scientist, Virginia Tech)

Other Trainees

Brent Gordon, DVM student (2012)
Joshua Sparks, MD student (2012 – 2014)
John Gil, DVM student (2013)
Vincent Tavella, DVM student (2016)
Caleb Whitfield, DVM student (2017)
Sabrina Callaway, DVM student (2018)
Grace Lee, MD student (2018 – 2020)
Meeta Prakash, MD student (2018 – 2020)
Jiangdi Mao, MS student (2019)
Constanza Sangmeister, Exchange student (2019)
Nathaniel Cheung, High school student (2021)
Amy Lin, DVM student (2021)
Noah Oakland, MD student (2021 – 2022)
Fernando Garcia, PREP student (2021 – 2022)
Maksimiano Rodríguez, Exchange student (2023)

Jennifer Zumbo, Undergraduate student (2015)
Tharshikha Pirapakaran, Undergraduate student (2015 – 2016)
Alec Reihl, Undergraduate student (2015 – 2016)
David Branson, Undergraduate student (2015 – 2016)
Jay Kirby, Undergraduate student (2015 – 2018)
Mellanee Gilkerson, Undergraduate student (2016)
Jillian Kazmierczak, Undergraduate student (2016)
Reilly Scott, Undergraduate student (2016)
Jacob Bond, Undergraduate student (2018 – 2019)
Kate Hardin, Undergraduate student (2018 – 2020)
Erica Giles, Undegraduate student (2019 – 2020)
Anna Christovich, Undegraduate student (2020 – 2022)
James Testerman, Undergraduate student (2020 – 2023)
Tian Xu, Undergraduate student (2022 – 2023)
Aida Shakeri, Undergraduate student (2022 – 2024)
Pavly Amin, Undergraduate student (2023 – 2024)
Kian Mabudian, Undergraduate student (2022 – present)
Emily Urda (2024 – present)
Harrison Scarboro (2024 – present)
Maryam Imran (2024 – present)
Astin Naveen John (2024 – present)
Amelia Rawlings (2024 – present)
Arpita Das (2024 – present)