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, 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, PharmD, PhD
Research Associate Professor

Postdoctoral Fellows


Mariana Maciel Herrerias, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Student

Nikolay Markov
Graduate Student
Research Staff

Raul Piseaux Aillon, MD
Research Associate

Stanislav Bratchikov
Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow

Elsie Grace Bunyan
Research Technician

Lauren Diebold Petrovich, PhD
Research Associate

Samuel William Fenske
Research Data Analyst Associate

Ziyan Lu
Research Lab Manager
312-503-0354

William Plodzeen
Research Technician

Constance E. (Connie) Runyan
Research Specialist

Max Schleck
Research Data Analyst Associate