Lab Members

Lab PI

  • Billy G Hudson, Ph.D.

    Director
    Center of Matrix Biology
    Elliott V. Newman Professor
    Medicine
    Professor
    Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
    Professor
    Biochemistry
    Phone
    615-322-7298
    Fax
    615-322-7381
    Office Address
    Medical Center North
    1161 21st Avenue South
    Room / Suite
    B-3102A
    Nashville
    37232

Faculty

  • Vadim Pedchenko, Ph.D.

    Research Associate Professor
    Medicine
    Phone
    615-322-3352
    Medical Center North
    1161 21st Avenue South
    Room / Suite
    S-3223
    Nashville
    37232
    Study of the mechanisms of the assembly and function of collagen IV networks and their dysfunction in normal kidney and in three different renal diseases (Goodpasture disease, Alport syndrome and diabetic nephropathy). A second major area of my research interest is focused on the etiology of Goodpasture autoimmune disease, with an emphasis on the molecular structure and properties of the human autoantibodies and the collagen IV autoantigen.

  • Aaron Fidler

    Research Assistant Professor
    Medicine
    Assistant Scientific Director
    Aspirnaut Program
    Program Manager
    Center for Matrix Biology
    Phone
    615-322-7298
    Office Address
    Medical Center North
    1161 21st Avenue South
    Room / Suite
    B3102B
    Nashville
    Tennessee
    37232

    My current research has been focused on identifying the evolutionary origin and developmental importance of an extracellular matrix triad—a sulfilimine-crosslinked collagen IV scaffold, peroxidasin, and hypohalous acids—within tissues from Human to Hydra. My future research will revolve around tissue regeneration from the context of the basement membrane toolkit and studying the role of microRNAs within the anemone, Nematostella, which can regenerate completely into two animals when severed completely in half.

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