Meet Our Team
Principal Investigator
Read more about Maria K. Lehtinen, PhD
Robertson Investigator, New York Stem Cell Foundation; Hannah C. Kinney, MD, Chair in Pediatric Pathology Research, Boston Children's Hospital
Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Lab Members
Harvard University
Ya'el Courtney
Kent State University - BS
Harvard Graduate Program: Neuroscience
Anna Dong
Harvard University
Neil Dani
University of Rochester - BS; Vanderbilt University - PhD; New York Medical College - MS
Bradford Grant
Davidson College, BS
Ryann Fame
The College of William & Mary - BS; Harvard University - PhD
Tiara Lacey
Spelman College, BS, Harvard Graduate Program: BBS
Ahram Jang
Seoul National University - PhD; Sookmyung Women's University - BS
Peter Kalugin
Johns Hopkins University - BS; University of Oxford - MSc in Oncology; Harvard Graduate Program: Neuroscience, MD/PhD
Cameron Sadegh
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - SB; Harvard Medical School, MD/PhD
Fred Shipley
Amherst College - BS; Harvard Graduate Program - Biophysics
Aja Pragana
Salve Regina University, BS
Huixin Xu
Tsinghua University - BS; Harvard University - PhD
Paul Soden
Cornell University - BS
Miriam Zawadzki
Washington University in St. Louis - BA; Harvard Graduate Program: BBS - MD/PhD
Lab Alumni
2020-2021: Andrea Yessaillian was a Northeastern Honors Thesis student, continued on to medical school at UCSD
2019-2021: Suhasini Gupta was a research assistant, continued on to medical school at UMass Medical School
2019-2021: Mya Webb was a research assistant, continued on to medical school at UNC – Chapel Hill
2017-2021: Jin Cui was a postdoctoral fellow, continued on to Dyne Therapeutics
2016-2019: Morgan Shannon was a research assistant in the lab, currently medical student at Vanderbilt.
2016-2019: Joshua Head was a research assistant in the lab, currently graduate student at Stanford.
2018-2019: Kolby Shaw was a Simmons College undergraduate student in the lab.
2012-2018: Kevin Chau was a PhD student and is currently carrying out postdoctoral training with Ayumu Toshiro (NTU, Singapore).
2014-2016: Hillary Mullan was Research Assistant in the lab, currently medical student at UMass Medical School.
2015-2016: Erin Fonseca was co-op student in the lab, currently finishing undergraduate degree at Northeastern University.
2012-2016: Melody Lun was MD/PhD student in the lab, currently Pediatrics Resident at UCSF.
2014-2015: Tais Adelita was a visiting PhD student in the lab and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the HiFo / Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich.
2012-2014: Mark Springel was a research assistant in the lab and is currently a PhD student at Harvard University.
2013-2014: Hye-yeon Park was a Harvard University MA student in the lab and is currently a scientist at Novartis.
2012-2013: Salih Topal was a MA student from University of Strasbourg in the lab and is currently a PhD student at UMass-Worcester.
2012-2013: Vivian Ho was a Northeastern University undergraduate student in the lab and is currently an MA student at Simmons College.
2011-2013: Alexandra Malesz was a research assistant in the lab and is currently an MSc student at Boston University.
2011-2012: Alexandra Stough was a Bucknell University undergraduate student in the lab and is currently an MD student at Temple University School of Medicine.
PhD Rotation Students
2022: Jill Jones (MD/PhD)
2021: Olumide Fagboyegun (PiN)
2021: Muhammad Ahmad (BBS)
2021: Tiara Lacey (BBS)
2020: Ya’el Courtney (PiN)
2019: Peter Kalugin (MD/PhD, PiN)
2019: Lyuba Bolkhovitinov (BBS)
2019: Miriam Zawadzki (MD/PhD, BBS)
2019: Miguel Marin-Rodero (Immunology)
2018: Valentina Lagomarsino (BBS)
2018: Genevieve Gerhard (BBS)
2018: Jessica Brooks (BBS)
2018: Hannah Zucker (PiN)
2018: Yidi Wang (MD/PhD, BBS)
2017: Jenny Lai (MD/PhD, PiN)
2017: Christina Tringides (Biophysics)
2016: Alec Walker (Immunology)
2016: Emily Messelaar (BBS)
2016: Fred Shipley (Biophysics)
2014: Chester Chia (PiN)
2014: Michka Sharpe (BBS)
2013: Hye-yeon Park (Program in Neuroscience, PiN)
2012: Viviana Salinas-Rios (BBS)
2012: Kevin Chau (Biological and Biomedical Sciences, BBS)