Lab Members
Meet the Budinger Lab team members. We welcome requests for information about our work and collaboration opportunities.
Principal Investigator
![G.R. Scott Budinger](../images/budinger-160x188.jpg)
G.R. Scott Budinger, MD
Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care in the Department of Medicine, Ernest S. Bazley Professor of Airway Diseases, and Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary and Critical Care) and Cell and Developmental Biology
312-908-7737
MD: University of Illinois - Chicago (1989). Residency: University of Chicago Hospitals, Internal Medicine (1992). Fellowship: University of Chicago Hospitals, Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine (1995).
Research Professors
![Marina Susana Casalino Matsuda](../images/marina-casalino-matsuda.jpg)
Marina Susana Casalino Matsuda, PharmD, PhD
Research Associate Professor
![Laura Dada](../images/laura-dada.jpg)
Postdoctoral Fellows
![Catherine A. Gao](../images/Cathy-Gao-160x188.jpg)
![Mariana Maciel Herrerias](../images/Herrerias,-Mariana-Maciel-160x188.jpg)
Mariana Maciel Herrerias, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Student
![Nikolay Markov](../images/Markov_Nikolay160x188.jpg)
Nikolay Markov
Graduate Student
Research Staff
![Raul Piseaux Aillon](../images/Piseaux_Aillon_Raul_MD-160x188.jpg)
Raul Piseaux Aillon, MD
Research Associate
![Stanislav Bratchikov](../images/Bratchikov_Stanislav-160x188.jpg)
Stanislav Bratchikov
Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow
![Elsie Grace Bunyan](../images/Bunyan_Elsie-160x188.jpg)
Elsie Grace Bunyan
Research Technician
![Lauren Diebold Petrovich](../images/Petrovich_Lauren_PhD-160x188.jpg)
Lauren Diebold Petrovich, PhD
Research Associate
![Samuel William Fenske](../images/Fenske_Sam-160x188.jpg)
Samuel William Fenske
Research Data Analyst Associate
![Ziyan Lu](../images/Lu_Ziyan-160x188.jpg)
Ziyan Lu
Research Lab Manager
312-503-0354
![William Plodzeen](../images/Plodzeen_William-160x188.jpg)
William Plodzeen
Research Technician
![Constance E. (Connie) Runyan](../images/Runyan_Constance-160x188.jpg)
Constance E. (Connie) Runyan
Research Specialist
![Max Schleck](../images/placeholder-160x188.jpg)
Max Schleck
Research Data Analyst Associate