Our Team
Principal Investigator
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Vijay Sankaran, MD, PhD
Jan Ellen Paradise, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Boston Children's Hospital & Harvard Medical School
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Attending Physician, Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Associate Member, Broad Institute
Staff Members
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Isaac Johnson
Research Assistant
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Pardiss Mehrzad
Research Assistant
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Carmen Oleaga-Quintas, PhD
Laboratory Manager
Postdoctoral Fellows
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Mateusz Antoszewski, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Alexis Caulier, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Ofir Cohn, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Lucrezia della Volpe, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Teng Gao, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Chun-Jie Guo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Andrew Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Jorge Diego Martin-Rufino, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Peng Lyu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Anna-Lena Neehus, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Spencer Shelton, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Lara Wahlster, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Chen Weng, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Tianyi Ye, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate Students
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Gaurav Agarwal, MD
HSPH Biostatistics Graduate Student (MS)
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Travis Fleming
BBS Graduate Student (PhD)
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Jonas Gudera
Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds MD Fellow
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Samantha Joubran
Chemical Biology Graduate Student (PhD)
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Emily King
SSQB Graduate Student (PhD)
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Luana Messa
MD Fellow
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Laila Norford
BIG Graduate Student (PhD)
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Michael Poeschla
BIG Graduate Student (PhD)
Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program -
Emily Villalpando
MCB Graduate Student (PhD)
Undergraduate Students
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Vivan Chen
Harvard Undergraduate Student
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Sam Ha
Harvard Undergraduate Student
Lab Alumni
| Name | Years in Lab | Position in Lab | Current Position |
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| Jessica (Lacy) Yasuda |
2013-2014 | Medical Student Researcher | Gastroenterology Attending, Boston Children's Hospital |
| Felix Giani | 2013-2015 | Graduate Student (MD) | Physician-Scientist, Federal Office for Radiation Protection of Germany |
| Brian Kalish | 2014-2015 | Resident Researcher | Assistant Professor, University of Toronto; Neonatologist & Research Faculty, Hospital for Sick Children |
| Aoi Wakabayashi | 2013-2016 | Research Assistant/ Lab Manager | Scientist, Interius BioTherapeutics |
| Oleksandr Dmytrenko | 2016 | HSCI Undergraduate Intern | MD/PhD. Student, Washington University |
| Rajiv Khajuria | 2014-2017 | Graduate Student (PhD) | Scientist & Neurosurgery Resident, University Medical Center Mannheim |
| Xiaoli Mi | 2015-2017 | Medical Student Researcher | Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Cancer |
| Beat Frey | 2017 |
Sabbatical Visiting Scientist | CEO and Chief Physician, Blutspende Zurich |
| Laura Mateyka | 2017 | Graduate Student (MS) | Graduate Student (PhD), TUM in Munich (Advisor: Dirk Busch) |
| Gaurav Agarwal | 2017 | HSCI Undergraduate Intern | Kennedy Scholar, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health |
| Ah Ram Kim | 2015-2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Principal Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals |
| Nour Abdulhay | 2015-2018 | Research Assistant/ Lab Manager | Founding Scientist, Stealth Biotech Startup |
| Sean McFarland | 2016-2018 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Senior Scientist, Tevard Biosciences |
| Jessica Zhang | 2018 | Harvard Undergraduate Intern | MD/PhD Student, Tufts University |
| Jacob Ulirsch | 2013-2018 | Computational Analyst/Graduate Student | Scientist, Illumina Artificial Intelligence Lab |
| Kara Montbleau | 2017-2018 | Samuel E. Lux, MD Medical Fellow |
Associate Physician in Pediatrics, UC San Diego |
| Claudia Fiorini | 2014-2019 | Research Associate/ Staff Scientist | Senior Scientist, Cellarity |
| Samantha Marglous | 2019 | HSCI Undergraduate Intern | M.D./Ph.D. Student, Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program |
| Chattree Hantaweepant | 2018-2019 | Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow | Hematologist, Siriraj Hospital/ Mahidol University |
| Douglas Perkins | 2019-2020 | Computational Analyst | Graduate Student in Data Sciences, Northeastern University |
| Ayesha Ejaz | 2019-2020 | Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow | Hematologist, Oxford University Hospital/ University of Oxford |
| Aaron Cheng | 2016-2020 | Medical Student Researcher/HHMI Medical Fellow | Hematology Fellow, University of Pennsylvania |
| Caleb Lareau | 2017-2020 | Graduate Student (PhD) in BBS Program | Principal Investigator, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center |
| Anindita Basak | 2014-2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Senior Scientist, Fulcrum Therapeutics |
| Leif Ludwig | 2017-2020 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Group Leader, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology/Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine |
| Jeffrey Verboon | 2017-2021 | Computational Analyst | Computational Biologist, Cartography Biosciences |
| Yong Shen | 2018-2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Investigator, Beijing Institute of Collaborative Innovation |
| Wendy Luo | 2019-2021 | Research Assistant | Medical Student, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine |
| Erik Bao | 2016-2021 | Medical Student Researcher/HHMI Medical Fellow | Hematology/Oncology Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute |
| Blake Cohen | 2019-2021 | Research Assistant | Research Associate, Orna Therapeutics |
| Satish Nandakumar | 2014-2021 | Postdoctoral Fellow |
Assistant Professor of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/ Albert Einstein Cancer Center |
| Emory Werner | 2019-2022 | Medical Student Researcher |
Associate, RA Capital |
| Jensen Pak | 2021-2022 | Graduate Student (M.S.) in Immunology Program |
Clinical Researcher, Los Angeles |
| Dilnar Mahmut | 2018-2022 | Research Assistant |
Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Boston University Program in Biomedical Sciences |
| Xiaotian Lao | 2018, 2019-2022 | HSCI Undergraduate Intern, Research Assistant |
Computational Biology Graduate Student, University of Cambridge |
| Lance Li | 2022 | HSCI Undergraduate Intern |
Undergraduate Student, Georgetown University |
| Fulong Yu | 2020-2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow |
Principal Investigator, Guangzhou National Laboratory |
| Danya Martell-Smart | 2017-2023 | Affliate Postdoctoral Fellow | Patent Agent, Wilson Sonsini |
| Liam Cato | 2020-2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Surgery Resident, Houston Methodist |
| Rick Li | 2019-2023 | HSCI Undergraduate Intern, Research Assistant | M.D./Ph.D. Student, Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program |
| Henry Lu | 2022-2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Medical Student, Queen's University |
| Jiawei Zhao | 2020-2023 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Principal Investigator and Professor, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
| Mariel Wissmann | 2021-2023 | Computational Analyst | Healthcare Data Analyst, Boston Children's Hospital | Alex Liggett | 2019-2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Senior Computational Scientist, AstraZeneca |
| Uma Arora | 2023-2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Computational Scientist, Foundation Medicine |
| Nicole Castano | 2021-2024 | Research Assistant | Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Yale University |
| Susan Black | 2020-2024 | Research Assistant | Graduate Student (Ph.D.), Boston University |
| Soumyaa Mazumder | 2022-2024 | Samuel E. Lux, MD Medical Fellow | Resident, Boston Children's Hospital |
| Richard Voit | 2018-2024 | Postdoctoral Fellow | Assistant Professor, UT Southwestern Medical Center |