The Busada Lab
Circa 2025
Jon is from central North Carolina. He received his BS in Biology from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He then earned his Ph.D. from East Carolina University. His dissertation research focused on spermatogenesis in Chris Geyer's lab. In 2015, he joined John Cidlowski's laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) at Durham, NC. In 2020, he started his lab at West Virginia University.
Jonathan Busada Ph.D.
Ben is from Montcalm, WV. He received his undergraduate degree in Biomedical Sciences Pre-Medicine from Bluefield State College. Ben studies the effects of androgens on gastric inflammation and how androgen signaling may increase gastric cancer risk in men. He is also an advocate for science literacy and wants to improve science communication in underserved areas like southern WV. Ben joined the Busada lab in the fall of 2021.
Benjamin Duncan (Ph.D. student)
Maeve is from Indiana, PA. She received her undergraduate degree in Immunology and Medical Microbiology from WVU in 2022. Maeve joined the Busada lab as an undergraduate research intern in the fall of 2020 and joined the Busada lab as a Ph.D. student in 2022. She has pioneered our new research direction investigating how exposures to environmental toxins affect the stomach and potentially increase gastric cancer risk.