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

Xin Mimi Luo, PhD, Principal Investigator
Associate Professor, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
BS, Peking University 北京大学; PhD, Pennsylvania State University, University Park (mentor: Dr. A. Catharine Ross); Postdoc, California Institute of Technology (mentor: Dr. David Baltimore)
Email: xinluo@vt.edu; Phone: 540-231-0977
Current Lab Members





Postbac, PhD & Postdoc Alumni











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 – present)
- Aida Shakeri, Undergraduate student (2022 – present)
- Kian Mabudian, Undergraduate student (2022 – present)