Our lab team strives to conduct research that will significantly contribute to the scientific community. Meet our current and past collaborators down below.
William Parker, Ph.D.
Retired from Duke University after 28 years of research there. Currently CEO of WPLabs, Inc., a not-for profit private research laboratory.
Best known for discovering the function of the human appendix, William Parker studied biology as an undergraduate student and went on to earn his Ph.D. in chemistry. He has been working in research since the 1990s and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles. William conducts research that focuses on the issues presented in the immune system as a result of Western civilization.
Jasmine Cendejas
Lab Assistant
Jasmine is currently an undergraduate student at UNC-Chapel Hill majoring in biology and minoring in neuroscience. She has worked on projects associated with helminth therapy and other projects exploring the link between acetaminophen and autism.
Current and Former Students
Medical Students
(Co-mentored with Duke Physicians)
Other Medical Students:
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1999-2000 Jarrod D. Day
2002-2003 Sarah E. Gibson
2002-2003 Aaron Wyse
2010-2011 Jason Leong
2014-2015 Dylan Beinart
Undergraduate Students
1994-1995 Karen B. Stitzenberg
1995-1996 Jarama Lateef
1997-1999 Katherine J. Reissner
1997-2000 Annu Sood
1997-2001 Yuko C. Nakamura
1998-1999 Naomi S. Huber
1999-2002 Winston Lee
1999-2000 Brittny S. Williams
2000-2001 Valerie S. Weidner-Pratt
2003-2005 Aditya P. Devalapalli
2006-2008 Hung-Enn (Andy) Tan
2008 (Summer) Melat Saleshi
2011 (Summer) John Watts
2011-2014 Cindy Pi (Howard Hughes Undergrad fellow, Summer of 2011)
2011-2014 Emily Foltz
2013-2015 Darshana Jaint
2013-2015 Anna Cheng
2016-2017 Amanda Mathew
2017-2018 David Takamiya
2017-2018 Daniel Kim
2018-2019 Joshua Hames
2019-2020 Aarushi Venkatakrishnan
Howard Hughes Pre-College Program Students, North Carolina School of Science and Math fellows, and other high school students
1995 Sarah Washburn
1996 Lilly Farrell
1997 Catherine M. Ward
2001 Lindsay A. Edwards
2002 Aditya Devalapalli
2003 Shaina Wahl
2004 Karl A. Shieh
2005 Jonathan S. Solow
2006 Gregory Rubinstein
2007 Linda Lou
2008 Michael Lo
2009 Christian Johnson
2010 Angela Zhang
2010 Ryan Lee
2011 Amy Xie
2012-2014 Nathan Sanders
2014 Daniel Ren
2016 Sahil Karuturi
2016 Cliff Haley
2016 Rasika Rao
2017 Antara Palkar
2020 Jasmine Cendejas
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