Meet the Team

  • Valerie P. O'Brien, Ph.D.

    Lab Director

    Post Doc, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

    Ph.D., Molecular Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Lehao Wu

    Graduate Student, MCMP

    M.S., Pharmacology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

    B.S., Pharmacy, Shandong University, China

  • Rayna Bandy

    Graduate Student, MCMP

    M.S., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center

    B.S., Chemistry, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology

  • Anne Serban

    Lab Manager

    B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago

  • Nick Wojcicki II

    Lab Technician

    B.S., Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology, Purdue University

  • Chieh-Hsun (Scott) Chou

    Undergraduate Researcher

    B.S., Pharmaceutical Sciences, Purdue University, anticipated Spring 2026