Lab Alumni

Postdoctoral Fellows

Rafael Bejar, MD, PhD (2007 - 2012)
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
University of California, San Diego

​Anupama Narla, MD (2007 - 2013)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology/Oncology
Stanford University | Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital

​Bjorn Nilsson, PhD (2008 - 2010)
​Professor of Clinical Immunology
Lund University, Sweden

Shilpee Dutt, PhD (2008 - 2010)
Professor at the School of Life Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, India

Erica Esrick, MD (2008 - 2013)
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School | Boston Children’s Hospital

Maureen Okam, MD (2008 - 2013)
Associate Professor of Medicine and Global Health Equity
Clinical Director of Hematology Services
Harvard Medical School | Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Ann Mullally, MD (2009 – 2013)
Professor of Medicine
Division Chief of Hematology, Department of Medicine
Stanford University 

Marcus Järås, PhD (2010 – 2012)
Associate Professor
Lund University, Sweden

Dirk Heckl, PhD (2011 – 2013)
Director, Institute for Experimental Paediatric Haematology and Oncology
Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany

Jan Krönke, MD (2011 - 2014)
Research Group Leader
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

​Esther Obeng, MD, PhD (2011 – 2017)
Assistant Faculty Member
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

​Rebekka Schneider-Kramann, MD, PhD  ​(2012 – 2015)
Director, Institute of Cell and Tumor Biology
Full Professor
Uniklinik RWTH Aachen, Germany

R. Coleman Lindsley, MD, PhD (2012 - 2016)
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Brenton Mar, MD, PhD (2012 - 2016)
SVP, Head of Clinical Development
​Relay Therapeutics

​Siddhartha Jaiswal, MD, PhD (2013 - 2017)
Associate Professor of Pathology
Stanford University

Zuzana Tothova, MD, PhD (2013 - 2018)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School | ​Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 

​Aline Renneville, PharmD, PhD ​(2014 - 2015, 2017 - 2019)
Research Scientist
​Gustave Roussy, France

Ofir Wolaj, MD (2015 - 2016)
Head of Leukemia Service
Davidoff Cancer Center at Rabin Medical Center, Israel

Jessica Gasser (2015 - 2022)
Director
Magnet Biomedicine

James Kennedy, MD, PhD (2015 - 2018)
Hematologist
Odette Cancer Centre | Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Andrew Guirguis, MD, PhD (2015 - 2019)
Clinical Lab Head, Olivia Newton-John Cancer Research Institute 
Clinical Hematologist, Austin Hospital

Brian Liddicoat, PhD (2015 - 2019)
Director of Biology
exteRNA

Peter Miller, MD, PhD (2015 - 2021)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital

Rob Sellar, MD, PhD (2015 - 2019)
CRUK Advanced Clinician Scientist | Honorary Consultant Haematologist
University College London Cancer Institute

Christopher Gibson, MD (2015 - 2021)
Novartis

​Adam Sperling, MD, PhD (2015 - 2021)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School | Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Steffen Boettcher, MD (2016 - 2019)
Assistant Professor, University of Zurich
Attending Physician, University Hospital Zurich

Roger Belizaire, MD, PhD (2016 - 2021) 
Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School 
Associate Pathologist, Transfusion Medicine, BWH/DFCI

Max Jan, MD, PhD (2016 - 2021)
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School | Massachusetts General Hospital

Abhishek Niroula, PhD (2018 - 2020)
Assistant Professor
University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Mridul Agrawal, MD (2018 - 2022)
President & Co-Founder
iuvando Health

Amy Lin, MD, PhD (2018 - 2022)
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Lachelle Weeks, MD, PhD (2018 - 2023)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
​Harvard Medical School | Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Cristina Di Genua, PhD (2019 - 2021)
E3 Systems Biologist
​Vant AI

Philipp Rauch, MD, DrMed (2019 - 2023)
Clinical Program Leader
Novartis, Switzerland 

Mikolaj Słabicki, PhD (2016 - 2024)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
​Harvard Medical School | MGH Cancer Center

Jonathan Tsai, MD, PhD (2018 - 2024)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
​Harvard Medical School | BWH Pathology

Waihay Wong, MD, PhD (2018 - 2024)
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Northwestern University

Julia Stomper, MD (2020 - 2025)
Residency, Department of Oncology
Hematology and Stem Cell Transplantation
RWTH Aachen University Medical Center

Zinan Zhang, MD, PhD (2021 - 2023)
Resident Physician
Harvard Dermatology 

Hojong Yoon​, PhD (2021 - 2025)
Assistant Professor
Department of Experimental Therapeutics
MD Anderson Cancer Center

Justin Ching Ting Loke, BM BCh, PhD (2021 - 2025)
Institute Fellow
Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute
The University of Manchester, UK​​

Zuzanna Kozicka, PhD (2023 - 2025)
Assistant Professor
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

 

Senior Staff

Damien Wilpitz, MS (Lab Manager, 2008 - 2018)
Founder & Principal Consultant
Experimental Designs Consulting

Anna Molineaux, MS, CRA  (Lab Manager, 2018 - 2021)
Science Operations Manager
​Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Marek Nagiec, PhD ​(Senior Research Scientist, 2020 - 2024)

 

Graduate Students

Allegra Lord, PhD (2009 – 2015)
Senior Scientist
Novo Nordisk

Rishi Puram, MD, PhD (2010 – 2014)
Physician-Scientist
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Dave Raiser, PhD (​2011 – 2015)
Chief Operating Officer
STRM.BIO, Boston, MA

Peter Miller, MD, PhD (2015 - 2021)
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School | MGH

Quinlan Sievers, MD, PhD (2013 - 2017)
Fellow in Medical Oncology
​Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Emma Fink, MD, PhD (2013 – 2018)
Hematology Oncology Fellow
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Josephine Kahn, MD, PhD  (2014 - 2019)
Hematology/Oncology Fellow
MSKCC

Sebastian Koochaki, MD, PhD (2015 - 2020)
Resident, BWH Internal Medicine

Ellen Beauchamp, PhD (2016 – 2021)
Senior Medical Writer
Custom Learning Designs

Yen-Der Li, MD, PhD ( 2019 - 2023)
BioTech Equity Research Associate 
Leerink Partners

Paul M.C. Park, PhD ( 2019 - 2024)
Scientist  I
DFCI ​Center for Protein Degradation

Aintzane Díaz Mazquiaran (2024)
PhD Student
Universidad de Navarra 
 

Undergraduates, Medical Students, and Medical Residents

Zach Altshuler
​Armeen Barghi
Kevin Cheung, MD
Saurav Daniel Haldar, PhD
Bendix Hempel
​Aintzane Diaz Mazquiaran
Andrew Nguyen, MD
​Akansha Tarun, MD, DPhil
Rick Wilson, MD, PhD
Zinan Zhang, MD, PhD

Scientific Staff

Dylan Adams
​Fatima Al-Shahrour
​Zach Altshuler
​Armeen Barghi
​Amanuel Bizuayehu​
Nate Bohm-Levine
Bernd Boidol
Jocelyn Bosco​
​​Jordan Breyfogle​
​Kristina Brumme
Bennett Caughey
Cecelia Castellano
Ryan Chappell
Edwin Chen, Ph.D.
Michelle Chen
C.J. Cheng​​
​Drew Cohen
Lisa Chu
​​Kevin Chung, MD
Melanie Donahue
Alyse Frisbee
Peter Grauman
Daniel Grinshpun
Kelsey Hope
​Slater Hurst
Jacob Kotlier
Veronica Kovalcik
​KiKi Landers
Matt Leventhal
​​Katie Lin
Katie Logan
​Donnette Madrey
​Randall McAuley
Kirsten Milenkowic​
​​​Rachel Murphy
​​​Mahnaz Paktinat
Luke Poveromo
​Kamal Prajapati
Brittany Sandoval
Rohan Sharma​​
Malik Shaw
Wesley Shin
Sebastian Shterental
Alex Silver
Aurora Sullivan
Sewit Teckie, MD
Alexander Tepper
Kerie Verneuil
Kaushik Viswanathan
​Rick Wilson, MD​