Jonathan Kropski, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine AND Cell and Developmental Biology

Research Director, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Dr. Jonathan Kropski received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College and his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary/Critical Care fellowship at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include the genetic basis of interstitial lung disease, rare/familial lung diseases, and molecular mechanisms of lung injury, repair and fibrosis. His laboratory utilizes genetic, genomic, bioinformatic approaches as well as cell and transgenic animal models to investigate the molecular mechanisms regulating lung injury and repair mechanisms.

Scott McCall, MD/PhD

Instructor, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Scott is an early-career physician-scientist and PSTP alum studying HIF-regulation of cell fate decisions in the distal lung.

Franck Kamga, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Franck is a postdoctoral fellow focused on the role of inflammatory signaling in epithelial regeneration.

Rafael Fernandez, MD/PhD

Fellow, Pulmomary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Rafi is a PSTP Pulmonary fellow interested in telomere biology and its role in pulmonary fibrosis.

Alexander Linsatala, MD/PhD

Fellow, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Alex is a PSTP Pulmonary fellow working with the West Lab and our group on genomic mechanisms underlying Group III pulmonary hypertension.

Merced Malabanan, PhD

Research Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy,Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Merced is our Research Program Manager focused on clinical/translational studies.

Ujjal Singha, PhD

Research Instructor, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Ujjal is a senior scientist leading organoid and iPSC work in the group.

Taylor Sherrill, MS

Laboratory Manager, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Taylor is our laboratory manager and an expert in animal models.

Carla Calvi, MS

Senior Research Specialist, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Carla is a senior scientist who leads studies focused on orphan GPCR regulation of alveolar repair.

David Nichols, BS

Research Assistant, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

David is an expert histotechnician who oversees histology studies and manages our biorepository.

Gianluca diGiovanni, BS

Research Assistant, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Luca is a Research Assistant who works closely with Jason on Yap/Taz related projects.

Isabella Gaona, BS

Research Assistant, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Isabella is a Research Assistant who works with Jason on a number of projects.

Abigail Dietrich, BS

Research Assistant, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Abigail is a genomics-focused Research Assistant focused on human lung single-cell genomics projects.

Holley David, BS

Research Assistant, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Holley is a Research Assistant working with Scott focused on alveolar organoids and HIF-regulated metabolic studies.

Arlo Colvard

Undergraduate Student, UCRIP Program

Arlo is an undergraduate student at David Lipscomb working with us for the summer of 2024 through the UCRIP Program.

Lab alumni

Kelli Clemons, Research Assistant - Med/Peds Resident, East Carolina University

Justin C. Hewlett, MD - pulmonary fellow - Assistant Professor, Rare Lung Disease Clinic Director, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

A. Chris Habermann, Research Assistant - U. Tennessee School of Medicine

Nichelle I. Winters, MD/PhD - postdoctoral fellow - Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Nashville, TN

Jason Gokey, PhD - Assistant Professor, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center