Clinical Laboratory Scientists

Focused on the development and evaluation of novel ID diagnostics and the performance of microbiologic assays to support a wide variety of clinical trials and public health initiatives.

2018-2020  George Andy Farr, BS
2019-2023    Jeremy Meeder, BS 
2020-2021  Drew Freeman, BS
2020-2021  Thomas Detchemendy, BS, MS
2020-2021  John Hernandez, BS
2020-2022  Hannah Mariah Pierce, BS, MS
2020-2023    Sumner Adams, BS
2023  Robert (Will) Browning, BS

Post-doctoral Trainees

2018-19  Daniel Silberger, Clinical Microbiology Research Mentor, focus- development of a novel infectious disease diagnostic test for Clostridiodes difficile; current Clinical Microbiologists in the United States Navy Staff Corps.
2018-21  Arthur Totten, PhD, Clinical Microbiology Research Mentor, focus- development and evaluation of novel infectious disease diagnostic tests for mollicutes; current clinical microbiologist and Diplomate of the American Board of Microbiology D(ABMM) at Stony Brook University, NY

International Research Fellows

2023  Godlove Wpenje, Fogarty Research Fellow, University of Buea, Cameroon, Africa, focus- Development of a molecular diagnostic test to detect genital schistosomiasis.
2023  Nesma Ahmed-Esam, USAID Research Fellowship Mentor, University of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, focus- Clinical mycology diagnostic testing and evaluation of FFPE tissues form patients with Invasive Mucormycosis