Former Members
Postdoctoral Fellows
Anna Azarova, PhD / Senior Scientist, Pharmaceutical Company, Russia.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): First author (Oncotarget, Seminars in Cancer Biology), abstract selected for oral presentation at AACR Annual Meeting, 2011.
Fellowship funding: AACR Scholar-in-Training award for meritorious abstract, Friends for Life Foundation Fellowship.
(2008-2011)
Wenchao Wang PhD / Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR of China.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=3): first author (Oncogene), co-author (PLoS Genetics, Cancer Cell); 3 poster presentations at international conferences.
Fellowship funding: Abraham Fellowship.
(2008-2012)
Namrata Bhatnagar PhD / MBA program, Boston University
Accomplishments: Publications (n=4): Oncogene x 2, Cancer Cell, Oncotarget (co-author), presented a poster at an international meeting.
Fellowship funding: Friends of DFCI.
(2010-2013)
Desheng Pei PhD / Associate Professor, University of Hubei, P. R. of China.
Accomplishments: Publication (n=1): First author (PLoS Genetics)
(2011-2012)
Edmond Chipumuro PhD / Scientist, Moderna, Senior Scientist, KSQ Therapeutics.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=4): First author (Cell), co-author (Cancer Cell, Cell Chemical Biology, Nature Communications)
Fellowship funding: NIH/NCI Diversity supplement to my R01.
(2012-2015)
Nathan Moore PhD / Senior Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Oncotarget (first author), Oncogene (co-author).
Fellowship funding: Abraham Fellowship, Friends for Life Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH/NCI F32 postdoctoral NRSA.
(2012-2015)
David Debruyne PhD / Scientist, Paragon Genomics.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Oncogene, Nature (first author)
Fellowship funding: Friends for Life Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Young Investigator Award, DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Horizon Award.
(2013-2019)
Yang Gao PhD / Scientist, Center for Protein Degradation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=5): first author (Cell Chem Biol, J Med Chem), co-author (J Med Chem, Nature Comm, Nature).
Fellowship funding: Friends for Life Neuroblastoma Postdoctoral Fellowship.
(2014-2019)
Malgorzata Krajewska, PhD / Lecturer and Principal Investigator, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Ireland.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Nature Comm., J Clin Invest (first author)
Fellowship funding: Abraham Fellowship (2016); Rally Foundation (2017-2020).
(2015-2020)
Meghan Brundage, PhD / Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanofi Aventis.
(2016)
Daniel Day, PhD / Data Scientist, Facebook.
Accomplishments: 2 co-author publications (Nature Comm, Nature).
Fellowship funding: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship.
(2016-2017)
Reuben Dries, PhD / Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator, Depts. of Hematology & Medical Oncology, and Computational Biomedicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.
(2016-2020)
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Nature Comm., Nature (both first author).
Hao Huang PhD
(2014-2021)
Accomplishments: Publications (n=3): Cell Reports (first author); Nature Comms., Nature (co-author)
Fellowship funding: Abraham Research Fellowship (2015), Team Path for the Cure Grant (2016-2017)
Matthew Harlow PhD, (Vanderbilt University, 2017); Civetta Therapeutics
(2017-2021)
Fellowship funding: Quad W Foundation (2019-2021); Amato Foundation (2020-2021)
Mukulika Bose PhD (University of North Carolina)
(2022-2023)
Graduate students
Kristen Winsett, MS, Trio learning Specialist, Berkshire Community College.
Career stage: Master’s student, Regis College, MA. Accomplishments: Master’s thesis.
2014-2015
Kunal Shetty, MS, MD candidate, Boston University School of Medicine
Career stage: Master’s student, Boston University. Accomplishments: Master’s thesis.
2014-2015
Ann-Kathrin Schecht / Master’s student, University of Tubingen, Germany.
Career stage: Master’s student.
2019
Medical Students
Gargi Gautam MD / Physician, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Career stage: Elective medical student. Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Accomplishments: Co-authored a review article (Seminars in Cancer Biology)
2011
Monica Pomaville, MD, 2020 / Michigan State Medical School
Career stage: HHMI Medical Student Research Fellow
Accomplishments: Publications: Nature Comm (co-author)
Currrent position: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2017-2019
Bo Smits, BSc, Research Intern
Career stage: Medical and Master’s Student, University of Amsterdam.
2021-2022
Destiny Green, BS, Medical Student, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
Career stage: Visiting Research Internship Program (VRIP), part of Diversity Inclusion Program of Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School.
2023
Nicolas Lespinasse, Research Intern
Career stage: Medical Student and Master’s student, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
2023
Students (high school and undergraduate)
Linnea Herzog / PhD Candidate, Brandeis University
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2011
Aisha Lee / Harvard College undergraduate student
Career stage: Student of the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers.
2013-2014
Srunphut Pukma MD / Tufts University
Career stage: Undergraduate Honors thesis, Emmanuel College.
2013-2014
Carina Paz / Nurse Practitioner, Fall River, MA
Career stage: Undergraduate Honors thesis, Emmanuel College.
2014-2015
Madhavan Kartik Das / Graduate student, Colorado State University
Career stage: Research technician.
2015
Jeffrey Boakye / MD candidate, University of Connecticut Medical School
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) of the Leadership Alliance Program.
2015
Fiona (Jingwen) Fan, MA / University of Chicago,
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2015
Joshua Eibelman / Senior, Cornell University
Career stage: High school senior summer student,Maimonides School, Boston. Mentoring role: supervisor/mentor
2015
Amanda Loehr, DVM / PhD student, Cornell University.
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) of the Leadership Alliance Program.
Accomplishments: Co-author on one publication (J Med. Chem.)
2016
Oliver Dodd / PhD candidate, (Church Lab) BBS Program, Harvard Medical School,
Career stage: Senior Honors thesis student, MIT.
Accomlishments: Co-author on 1 publication (Nature Comm). Recipient of the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program Fellowship.
2016
Darryl Hill
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP), Division of Medical Sciences (DMS), Harvard University and The Leadership Alliance Program.
2017
Jim Lu, BS
Career stage: Senior Honors thesis student, Harvard University.
Mentoring role: Honors Thesis supervisor.
Accomplishments: Co-author on 1 publication (J Clin Invest).
2017-2019
Jennifer Rosenthal / BS Undergraduate Student, Vanderbilt University
Career stage: Summer student.
2018
Chi Trinh, BSc/ Medical Student, Johns Hopkins School of Medicien
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2018
Darin Gilchrist / Junior, University of Maryland; MD-PhD program University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP), Division of Medical Sciences (DMS), Harvard University and The Leadership Alliance Program.
2019
Luigi Soriano / Senior, Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ
Career stage: Summer student.
2019
Asrah Rizvi / Senior, Winsor School, Boston MA
Career stage: Summer student.
2019
Ella Chung/Junior, Wellesley College, MA
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2022
Hanna Gebremichael / Junior, The Pennsylvania State University
Career stage: Research rotation as part of SHURP, Division of Medical Sciences (DMS), Harvard University and The Leadership Alliance Program.
2023
Research Technicians
William Luther II BS / Research Associate, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Accomplishments: Co-author on 6 manuscripts (Nature, ACS Med Chem Lett., Cancer Cell, Oncogene x 2, PLoS Genetics).
2007-2010
Lauren Olson PhD / Graduate student, University of Chicago
2008-2010
Zachary Matthay MD / Clinical fellow, General Surgery, University of California at San Francisco.
2010-2011
Bandana Sharma PhD/Lab Manager
Career stage: Postdoctoral fellow/lab manager.
Accomplishments: Co-author on all papers from the lab.
2010-2022
Clarke Hatheway MD / University of Pittsburgh, Resident, Internal Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center
Accomplishments: Co-author on 1 publication (Cell).
2013-2015
Michael McLane, BS / Associate Scientist, Akoya Biosciences
Accomplishments: co-author on 1 publication (Nature).
2017-2018
Esther Stolz MSc (University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria) ; Biotech
2020-2021
Xuan (Zoey) Zheng MS
Technician/Lab manager
2022
Anna Azarova, PhD / Senior Scientist, Pharmaceutical Company, Russia.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): First author (Oncotarget, Seminars in Cancer Biology), abstract selected for oral presentation at AACR Annual Meeting, 2011.
Fellowship funding: AACR Scholar-in-Training award for meritorious abstract, Friends for Life Foundation Fellowship.
(2008-2011)
Wenchao Wang PhD / Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR of China.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=3): first author (Oncogene), co-author (PLoS Genetics, Cancer Cell); 3 poster presentations at international conferences.
Fellowship funding: Abraham Fellowship.
(2008-2012)
Namrata Bhatnagar PhD / MBA program, Boston University
Accomplishments: Publications (n=4): Oncogene x 2, Cancer Cell, Oncotarget (co-author), presented a poster at an international meeting.
Fellowship funding: Friends of DFCI.
(2010-2013)
Desheng Pei PhD / Associate Professor, University of Hubei, P. R. of China.
Accomplishments: Publication (n=1): First author (PLoS Genetics)
(2011-2012)
Edmond Chipumuro PhD / Scientist, Moderna, Senior Scientist, KSQ Therapeutics.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=4): First author (Cell), co-author (Cancer Cell, Cell Chemical Biology, Nature Communications)
Fellowship funding: NIH/NCI Diversity supplement to my R01.
(2012-2015)
Nathan Moore PhD / Senior Scientist, Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Oncotarget (first author), Oncogene (co-author).
Fellowship funding: Abraham Fellowship, Friends for Life Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH/NCI F32 postdoctoral NRSA.
(2012-2015)
David Debruyne PhD / Scientist, Paragon Genomics.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Oncogene, Nature (first author)
Fellowship funding: Friends for Life Postdoctoral Fellowship, Alex’s Lemonade Stand Young Investigator Award, DOD Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program Horizon Award.
(2013-2019)
Yang Gao PhD / Scientist, Center for Protein Degradation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=5): first author (Cell Chem Biol, J Med Chem), co-author (J Med Chem, Nature Comm, Nature).
Fellowship funding: Friends for Life Neuroblastoma Postdoctoral Fellowship.
(2014-2019)
Malgorzata Krajewska, PhD / Lecturer and Principal Investigator, School of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University College Cork, Ireland.
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Nature Comm., J Clin Invest (first author)
Fellowship funding: Abraham Fellowship (2016); Rally Foundation (2017-2020).
(2015-2020)
Meghan Brundage, PhD / Postdoctoral Fellow, Sanofi Aventis.
(2016)
Daniel Day, PhD / Data Scientist, Facebook.
Accomplishments: 2 co-author publications (Nature Comm, Nature).
Fellowship funding: American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellowship.
(2016-2017)
Reuben Dries, PhD / Assistant Professor and Principal Investigator, Depts. of Hematology & Medical Oncology, and Computational Biomedicine, Boston University, Boston, MA.
(2016-2020)
Accomplishments: Publications (n=2): Nature Comm., Nature (both first author).
Hao Huang PhD
(2014-2021)
Accomplishments: Publications (n=3): Cell Reports (first author); Nature Comms., Nature (co-author)
Fellowship funding: Abraham Research Fellowship (2015), Team Path for the Cure Grant (2016-2017)
Matthew Harlow PhD, (Vanderbilt University, 2017); Civetta Therapeutics
(2017-2021)
Fellowship funding: Quad W Foundation (2019-2021); Amato Foundation (2020-2021)
Mukulika Bose PhD (University of North Carolina)
(2022-2023)
Graduate students
Kristen Winsett, MS, Trio learning Specialist, Berkshire Community College.
Career stage: Master’s student, Regis College, MA. Accomplishments: Master’s thesis.
2014-2015
Kunal Shetty, MS, MD candidate, Boston University School of Medicine
Career stage: Master’s student, Boston University. Accomplishments: Master’s thesis.
2014-2015
Ann-Kathrin Schecht / Master’s student, University of Tubingen, Germany.
Career stage: Master’s student.
2019
Medical Students
Gargi Gautam MD / Physician, Karolinska Institute, Sweden.
Career stage: Elective medical student. Karolinska Institute, Sweden. Accomplishments: Co-authored a review article (Seminars in Cancer Biology)
2011
Monica Pomaville, MD, 2020 / Michigan State Medical School
Career stage: HHMI Medical Student Research Fellow
Accomplishments: Publications: Nature Comm (co-author)
Currrent position: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
2017-2019
Bo Smits, BSc, Research Intern
Career stage: Medical and Master’s Student, University of Amsterdam.
2021-2022
Destiny Green, BS, Medical Student, Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine.
Career stage: Visiting Research Internship Program (VRIP), part of Diversity Inclusion Program of Harvard Catalyst, Harvard Medical School.
2023
Nicolas Lespinasse, Research Intern
Career stage: Medical Student and Master’s student, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
2023
Students (high school and undergraduate)
Linnea Herzog / PhD Candidate, Brandeis University
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2011
Aisha Lee / Harvard College undergraduate student
Career stage: Student of the Harvard Society of Black Scientists and Engineers.
2013-2014
Srunphut Pukma MD / Tufts University
Career stage: Undergraduate Honors thesis, Emmanuel College.
2013-2014
Carina Paz / Nurse Practitioner, Fall River, MA
Career stage: Undergraduate Honors thesis, Emmanuel College.
2014-2015
Madhavan Kartik Das / Graduate student, Colorado State University
Career stage: Research technician.
2015
Jeffrey Boakye / MD candidate, University of Connecticut Medical School
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) of the Leadership Alliance Program.
2015
Fiona (Jingwen) Fan, MA / University of Chicago,
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2015
Joshua Eibelman / Senior, Cornell University
Career stage: High school senior summer student,Maimonides School, Boston. Mentoring role: supervisor/mentor
2015
Amanda Loehr, DVM / PhD student, Cornell University.
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP) of the Leadership Alliance Program.
Accomplishments: Co-author on one publication (J Med. Chem.)
2016
Oliver Dodd / PhD candidate, (Church Lab) BBS Program, Harvard Medical School,
Career stage: Senior Honors thesis student, MIT.
Accomlishments: Co-author on 1 publication (Nature Comm). Recipient of the Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation Pediatric Oncology Student Training Program Fellowship.
2016
Darryl Hill
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP), Division of Medical Sciences (DMS), Harvard University and The Leadership Alliance Program.
2017
Jim Lu, BS
Career stage: Senior Honors thesis student, Harvard University.
Mentoring role: Honors Thesis supervisor.
Accomplishments: Co-author on 1 publication (J Clin Invest).
2017-2019
Jennifer Rosenthal / BS Undergraduate Student, Vanderbilt University
Career stage: Summer student.
2018
Chi Trinh, BSc/ Medical Student, Johns Hopkins School of Medicien
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2018
Darin Gilchrist / Junior, University of Maryland; MD-PhD program University of Maryland School of Medicine.
Career stage: Research rotation as part of the Summer Honors Undergraduate Research Program (SHURP), Division of Medical Sciences (DMS), Harvard University and The Leadership Alliance Program.
2019
Luigi Soriano / Senior, Princeton Day School, Princeton, NJ
Career stage: Summer student.
2019
Asrah Rizvi / Senior, Winsor School, Boston MA
Career stage: Summer student.
2019
Ella Chung/Junior, Wellesley College, MA
Career stage: Summer student in the BCH - Wellesley College Undergraduate Summer Program.
2022
Hanna Gebremichael / Junior, The Pennsylvania State University
Career stage: Research rotation as part of SHURP, Division of Medical Sciences (DMS), Harvard University and The Leadership Alliance Program.
2023
Research Technicians
William Luther II BS / Research Associate, Novartis Institute of Biomedical Sciences
Accomplishments: Co-author on 6 manuscripts (Nature, ACS Med Chem Lett., Cancer Cell, Oncogene x 2, PLoS Genetics).
2007-2010
Lauren Olson PhD / Graduate student, University of Chicago
2008-2010
Zachary Matthay MD / Clinical fellow, General Surgery, University of California at San Francisco.
2010-2011
Bandana Sharma PhD/Lab Manager
Career stage: Postdoctoral fellow/lab manager.
Accomplishments: Co-author on all papers from the lab.
2010-2022
Clarke Hatheway MD / University of Pittsburgh, Resident, Internal Medicine, California Pacific Medical Center
Accomplishments: Co-author on 1 publication (Cell).
2013-2015
Michael McLane, BS / Associate Scientist, Akoya Biosciences
Accomplishments: co-author on 1 publication (Nature).
2017-2018
Esther Stolz MSc (University of Applied Sciences, Vienna, Austria) ; Biotech
2020-2021
Xuan (Zoey) Zheng MS
Technician/Lab manager
2022
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