The Engle Lab
at the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center
People
Principal Investigator
Elizabeth Engle, MD
Elizabeth Engle is a Professor of Neurology and Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. At Boston Children’s Hospital, she is a member of the Departments of Neurology, Ophthalmology and Medicine (Genetics), a member of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and the Program in Genomics, and a senior investigator for The Manton Center for Orphan Disease Research. Dr. Engle received her B.A from Middlebury College and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She trained in pediatrics at Johns Hopkins, in neuropathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, and in adult and child neurology in the Longwood Neurology Training Program and at Boston Children’s Hospital. Following her residencies, she was a research fellow with Louis Kunkel, Ph.D., and later Alan Beggs, Ph.D., in the Division of Genetics at Children’s prior to establishing her own research lab in 1997. Her work has defined the human congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders and has been recognized by high-profile publications and by receipt of multiple honors, including the E. Mead Johnson Award for Research in Pediatrics from the Society for Pediatric Research, Sidney Carter Award in Child Neurology from the American Academy of Neurology, Research Award for Vision from the Alcon Institute, and the Bernard Sachs Award from the Child Neurology Society and election to the National Academy of Medicine and American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In addition to her research, Dr. Engle continues to care for patients, primarily consulting for children and adults with rare eye and facial movement disorders and other cranial nerve disorders. She teaches in both the clinical and laboratory settings, and has served on multiple committees that set the direction for neuroscience and ophthalmology research locally and nationally.
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Lab Members
Brenda Barry, MS, CGC
Brenda joined the Engle Lab in 2015 and is responsible for managing congenital cranial dysinnervation disorders (CCDD) human subjects study protocols and the CCDD clinic. She coordinates communications between the lab, study participants, providers, and collaborators and enrolls families into our research studies. Through the CCDD clinic, she provides genetic counseling for patients affected by cranial nerve disorders and their families. Brenda received her BA in Biology from Williams College and MS in Genetic Counseling from Brandeis University. She is a licensed genetic counselor and board certified by the American Board of Genetic Counseling.
Gabriela Carrillo, PhD
Gabby joined the Engle lab in 2022 after earning her PhD from the Translational, Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program at Virginia Tech, with a focus on cellular and molecular neuroscience and neuroimmunology. Her doctoral research in the lab of Dr. Michael Fox focused on the neuroimmune mechanisms underlying cortical and hippocampal inhibitory circuit changes induced by long-term brain infection with the parasite, Toxoplasma gondii. As an NINDS K00 fellow in the Engle Lab, she is using transcriptomic and proteomic approaches at single cell resolution to characterize the molecular programs regulating healthy development of facial motor neuron subtypes and their growing axons and how they go awry in congenital facial weakness.
Jo Chan, MS
Jo joined the Engle Lab in 2001 and is responsible for managing overall lab operations and finances, overseeing the processing and storing of human DNA samples, and teaching staff and trainees to conduct mutation analyses – e.g., Sanger sequencing, ddPCR, genome wide SNP analysis, and Next Generation Sequencing. She works closely with both the clinical neurogenetics and basic neuroscience research groups in the lab. Jo received her BS in Biology from Northeastern University in 2001 and her MS in Genetics from Harvard University in 2012.
Tammy Chu, BA
Tammy joined the lab in 2013 and is responsible for administrative support of Dr. Engle and lab members. For Dr. Engle, these responsibilities include calendar management and travel coordination. For the lab, they include meeting facilitation, timekeeping, reimbursement processing, mandatory reporting, institutional updates, staffing, visas, MTA/contract execution, and website maintenance. In addition, she assists with grant applications and letters of support and recommendation. She received her BA in Women’s Studies and Japanese from Wellesley College.
Dustin Gable, MD, PhD
Dustin joined the Engle Lab in 2024 during his 5th year of Child Neurology Residency at Boston Children’s. Prior to this, he completed his MD, PhD in 2020 at Johns Hopkins in Human Genetics. At Hopkins, he studied under Dr. Mary Armanios defining mechanisms of telomerase RNA biogenesis and identifying and characterizing a new short telomere syndrome disease gene, ZCCHC8, a component of the RNA nuclear exosome targeting complex required for 3’end processing of telomerase RNA. In the Engle Lab, he is studying cranial nerve dysfunction in a mouse model of spinal muscular atrophy and working to understand the timing and mechanism of cranial motor neuron pathology in fetal development. He will be completing a neuromuscular fellowship next year at Johns Hopkins after residency.
Fiona Mensching, BS
Fiona joined the Engle Lab in 2024. She works with Gabriela Carrillo, PhD, investigating the molecular mechanisms that govern facial motor neuron development and deviations that occur in congenital facial weakness. Fiona received her BS in Behavioral Neuroscience from Lehigh University in 2024.
Dharmendra Puri, PhD
Dharmendra joined the Engle Lab in 2022 after earning his PhD in Neuroscience from the National Brain Research Centre in Manesar, India. He conducted his doctoral research in the lab of Dr. Ghosh Roy on the regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton in C. elegans mechanosensory neuron. In the Engle Lab, his work focuses on studying the role of neuron specific β-tubulin, TUBB3, in cranial nerve development, and its interaction with the KIF21A motor protein, using cell biological and biochemical approaches. In addition, Dharmendra studies the effects of different TUBB-3 and KIF21A human knock-in mutations on cranial nerve neuroanatomy.
Yi Su, BS
Yi joined the Engle Lab in 2013. She works with Jo Chan, MS to provide support for lab operations. Her job responsibilities include maintaining common lab buffers and reagents, monitoring common lab supplies, cleaning lab glassware, and genotyping of common mouse lines. Yi earned her AS in Nursing from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine in 2000 and BS in Health Management from Northeastern University in 2013.
Lab Alumni
Postdoctoral Fellows
Raidah Al Baradie, MD (1999-2001) is the Director of the Neuroscience Center and Comprehensive Epilepsy Program and Chair of Pediatric Neurology at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
Hagit Baris-Feldman, MD (2004-2006) is the Director of The Genetics Institute, Genomic Center, and Gaucher Clinic at the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center and Associate Professor at Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel) .
Maya (Peeva) Brainard, PhD (2012-2014) is Senior Manager at Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance .
Long Cheng, PhD (2006-2015) is Principal Scientist, Process Science & Technology, at the Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Jigar Desai, PhD (2005-2010) is the Head of US Medical Affairs, Galapagos.
Alessandro Di Gioia, PhD (2014-2019) is Senior Principal Scientist in the Neurology and Ophthalmology Genetics Group at the Regeneron Genetics Center.
Yanjie Fan, PhD (2013-2014) is Associate Investigator at the XinHua Hospital and Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine (Shanghai, China).
Ryosuke Fujiki, MD, PhD (2015-2018) is the Vice Director of Neurology and an attending neurologist at Kokura Memorial Hospital (Fukuoka, Japan).
Tyler Hartman, MD (2007-2010) is a neonatologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.
Gena Heidary, MD, PhD (2008-2009) is the Director of the Neuro-Ophthalmology Service and the Pediatric Ophthalmology Fellowship Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
Lingyun Jia, PhD (2006-2012) earned her JD in Intellectual Property Law at Suffolk University Law School and is now Associate Attorney at Proskauer Rose LLP.
Adrianne Kolpak, PhD (2010-2013) is Principal Scientist at Rectify Pharma.
Arthur Lee, MD, PhD (2017-2023) is a postdoctoral fellow in the Talkowski Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.
Carlos Miranda, PhD (2002-2005) is the Head of Preclinical Research at AviadoBio (London, UK).
Noriko Miyake, MD, PhD (2005-2008) is Director and Principal Investigator in the Department of Human Genetics at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine and Professor at Tokyo International University (Tokyo, Japan).
Suresh Mohan, MD (2019-2020) is Assistant Professor of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Yale Otolaryngology.
Motoi Nakano, MD, PhD (1998-2001) is Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery in the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Nagasaki University Hospital (Nagasaki, Japan).
Maria Pia Rogines Velo, MD, PhD (2001-2006) is a psychiatrist (Weston, MA).
Matthew Rose, MD, PhD (2013-2021) is Assistant Professor in the Division of Neuropathology at the University of California Irvine.
Sherin Shaaban, MD, PhD (2010-2016) completed her ABMGG Clinical Molecular Genetics Fellowship at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is now the Medical Director of Molecular Genetics and Genomics and Medical Director of Pharmacogenomics at ARUP Laboratories and Associate Professor of Pathology at the University of Utah School of Medicine.
Yuyu Song, MD, PhD (2011-2013) is Assistant Investigator, Neurology at the Mass General Research Institute, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Visiting Scientist at the Marine Biological Laboratory.
Alan Tenney, PhD (2016-2023) is Senior Scientist I, Target Discovery at Akouos.
Max Tischfield, PhD (2014-2017 Postdoc, 2004-2010 PhD Student) is Assistant Professor of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University.
Yan Wei, MD, PhD (2013-2014) is the Associate Chief Physician of the Department of Ophthalmology at XinHua Hospital and Associate Professor of Ophthalmology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (Shanghai, China).
Mary Whitman, MD, PhD (2014-2020) is a staff physician in the Department of Ophthalmology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School.
Chen Wu, PhD (2008-2013) is the Director of Cell Engineering at Quintara Biosciences.
Koki Yamada, MD, PhD (2001-2004) is the Chief of the Department of Ophthalmology at Sasebo City General Hospital (Nagasaki, Japan).
Graduate Students (MD, PhD, & MD-PhD)
Sarah Ahmed (2013) earned her MD at Harvard Medical School and is now a dermatologist (Pittsburgh, PA).
Sheena Chew (2010-2013) earned her MD at Harvard Medical School and is now Attending Neurologist, specializing in ALS and neuromusclar disorders, at Massachusetts General Hospital and Instructor in Neurology at Harvard Medical School.
Arthur Formanek (2010) earned his MD at the University of Arkansas College of Medicine and is now an anesthesiologist in Critical Care Medicine at Mass General Brigham.
Sarah Garnai (2017-2020) earned her MD at Harvard Medical School and is now a preliminary medicine/ophthalmology resident at the University of Michigan.
Jann-Frederik Grunert (2005) earned his MD at the University of Witten/Herdecke (Witten, Germany).
Wen Fan Hu (2015) earned her MD-PhD at Harvard Medical School and is now Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Suzanne Michalak (2015-2016) earned her MD at the Univerity of North Carolina School of Medicine and is now a vitreoretinal surgery resident at Stanford Medicine.
Nisha Mukherjee (2009-2010) earned her MD at the Duke University School of Medicine and is now an ophthalmologist at Almance Eye Center (Burlington, NC).
Ann Marie O’Leary (2022) is a medical student at the University College Cork School of Medicine (Cork, Ireland).
Alicia Nugent (2010-2016) earned her PhD in Neuroscience at Harvard Medical School and is now Principal Scientist at Genentech.
Jong Park (2013-2016) earned his MD at the Duke University School of Medicine and is now a retinal fellow at Beaumont Hospital/Associated Retinal Consultants.
Jessica Rankin (2008-2009) earned her MD at Harvard Medical School and is now an ophthalmologist at Lexington Eye Associates (Concord, MA).
Victoria Robson Bradford (2015-2016) earned her MD at Harvard Medical School and is now a pediatrics resident in the Boston Combined Residency Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Boston Medical Center.
Daniel Martin Seible (2011) earned his MD at Harvard Medical School and is now a radiation oncologist at Anchorage Radiation Therapy Center (Anchorage, AK).
Katherine Weller, MSc (2019) earned her MD at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and is now an obstetrics and gynecology resident at Rush University Medical Center.
Theresa Williamson (2010) earned her MD at the Yale University School of Medicine and is now a neurosurgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and teaching faculty at the Havard Center for Bioethics.
Undergraduate Students
Fatima Aly (2024) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Neuroscience, at Harvard.
Phillip Ang (2014-2016) earned his AB in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard and is now a medical student at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine.
Chinedu Anyaeji (2009) earned his BS in Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and MD at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine and is now Associate Psychiatrist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Instructor in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Gowri Aragam (2006) earned her AB in Neurobiology at Harvard and MD at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and is now the Co-Founder, Chief Clinical Officer, and Direction of Education at Stanford Brainstorm and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.
Carrie (Decato) Ayers (1998) earned her BA in Biology and Psychology at Middlebury College, DO at Kansas City University of Medicine and Bioscience, and MBA at Rockhurst Univeristy and is now an anesthesiologist at Elliot Hospital (Manchester NH) and a Playa Bowls franchise owner.
Nicholas Baer (2018-2019) earned his BA in Biology at Carleton College and is now an MD-PhD student in Neurobiology and Behavior and graduate researcher in the Lomvardas Lab at Columbia University.
Genevieve Bern (2013) earned her BS in Biology at Hamline University and is now a medical student at the University of Minnesota Medical School (Duluth campus).
Lindsay Berube (2018-2022) earned her BS in Nursing at Simmons University and is now a registered nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Shaunté Butler* (2012-2014) earned her AB, high honors and cum laude, in Neurobiology at Harvard and MD at the Yale School of Medicine and is now an anesthesiology resident at Masschusetts General Hospital.
Dignity Butts (2021-2023) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Philosophy, at Harvard.
Adrian Castro (1995-1996) earned his AB at Harvard and MD from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and is now a pediatrician at Descanso Pediatrics (La Canada, CA).
Samantha Cote (2008) earned her BS at Sacred Heart Univeristy and PhD in Pharmacology and Physiology at Rutgers University and is now Development Scientist III at Alexion Pharmaceuticals.
Sarah Dogar (2018-2020) earned her BS, magna cum laude, in Biochemistry at Simmons University and is now Field Applications Specialist at Hamilton Company.
David Josh Douin (2009) earned his BS at Bucknell University and MD at Tufts University School of Medicine and is now an anesthesiologist at University of Colorado Health and Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Eugene Drokhlyansky* (2005-2007) earned his BS/MS, high honors, in Biology and Neuroscience at Brandeis University and PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard Medical School and is now Senior Principal Scientist at Bristol Myers Squibb.
Teresa Easterbrooks (2017-2019) earned her BS in Biology at Simmons University and is now a PhD student in Biomedical Science at the University of Maine and predoctoral associate in the Korstanje Lab at The Jackson Laboratory.
Ricardo Fernández-de Thomas (2011) earned his BS, magna cum laude, in Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras and MD at the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine and is now a neurosurgery resident at the University of Pittsburgh.
Nicole Flores (2007) earned her BS in Animal Physiology and Neuroscience at the University of California San Diego.
Ariel Garcia (2011-2012) earned his BS in Biology at Purdue University and MD at the Indiana University School of Medicine and is now a pediatrician at Tucson Medical Center (Tucson, AZ).
Sara Golidy (2016) earned her BS in Neuroscience at Michigan State University and is now a medical student at the Indiana University School of Medicine.
Toni Gonzalez-Riano (2015) earned her AS in Registered Nursing at Miami Dade College and is now an elementary and secondary education school nurse at EDU Healthcare.
Fiona Hagberg (2021-2023) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Neuroscience, at Simmons University.
Danny Haile (2023) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Biological Sciences, at Bunker Hill Community College.
Danielle Hooker (2010) earned her BS in Biomedical Sciences at Oakwook University, MEd in Secondary Education and Teaching at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and PharmD at the McWhorter School of Pharmacy/Samford University and is now Clinical Trials Project Manager at ACM Global Laboratories.
Wentao Huang (2016) earned his BS in Biomedicine at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China) and is now a PhD student in Biology and graduate assistant in the Weng Lab at MIT and the Whitehead Institute.
Mariana Jimenez (2021-2022) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Nursing, at Simmons University.
Karli Kibby (2015) earned her DPT in Exercise Science and Physical Therapy at Simmons University and is now a physical therapist in private practice (Baytown, TX).
Dakota Lynn Kubli (2020) is Budtender at Ayr Wellness.
Anna Kwon (2022) earned her AS in Biological Sciences at Bunker Hill Community College and is now an undergradute student, majoring in Biology, at Tufts University.
Krystal Law* (2001-2004) is deceased.
Cassia Lee (2020-2021) earned her AB in Chemistry and Physics at Harvard and is now Rotational Development Analyst at Jane Street.
Dimitri Leonidas (2011) earned his BS in Biochemistry and Biomedical Laboratory and Clinical Sciences at Boston University and is now Technical Sales Specialist at Sartorius.
Sophia Mac (2017) earned her BS in Chemistry at Northeastern University and is now a PhD student in Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University.
Shakti Martinez (2023) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Cellular and Molecular Biochemistry, at The University of Texas at El Paso.
Hannah Marudzinski (2015-2016) earned her BSN and MSN at Simmons Unviersity and is now a registered nurse at Drumhill Pediatrics (North Chelmsford, MA).
Fiona Mensching (2022-2023) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Behavioral Neuroscience, at Lehigh University.
Talisi Meyer (2017-2018) earned her BS in Biochemistry and Physics at Simmons University and is now a PhD student in Materials Science and Engineering and graduate research assistant at Cornell University.
Jennifer Munson (2005) earned her BS in Chemical Engineering and Neuroscience at Tulane University and PhD in Bioengineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and is now Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Mechanics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Co-Director of the Virginia Tech Cancer Research Alliance, and Co-Founder of Cairina, Inc.
Gabrielle Orr (2022) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Biology, at Boston University.
Sidney Parsons (2021-2022) is an undergraduate student, majoring in Exercise Science in the Accelerated Physical Therapy Program, at Simmons University.
Cristina Rivera Quiles (2018-2019) earned her BS in Biology at the University of Puerto Rico-Cayey and is now a PhD student in Neuroscience at Michigan State University.
Sarah (Ferrari) Rotz (1997) earned her BS in Biology at Syracuse University and MSN at Simmons University and is now a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in the Department of General Surgery at Boston Children’s Hosptial.
Abigail (Rovnak) Wallace (2015) earned her BS in Neuroscience and Cognitive Behavior at Simmons University and DC at Sherman College of Chiropractic.
Andrew Sheridan* (2012-2015) earned his AB, high honors and high magna cum laude, in Neurobiology at Harvard and MD at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and is now an internal medicine resident at UMass Memorial Medical Center.
Folasade Sofela* (2014-2016) earned her AB in Neurobiology at Harvard and is now an MD-PhD student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.
Madeleine Blodgett Terry (2006) earned her BA in Art and Psychology at Middlebury College and PhD in Clinical Psychology at City University of New York and is now Instructor in Clinical Medical Psychology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and Research Consultant in the Minding the Baby Program at the Yale University School of Medicine.
Caroline Weisman (2012-2014) earned her AB in Molecular and Cellular Biology and Philosophy at Harvard and PhD in Biophysics at Harvard University and is now Lewis-Sigler Scholar at Princeton University.
Andrea Zingaro (2018) earned his BS in Biology and MS in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) and is now Junior Specialist in the Ruggero Lab at the University of California, San Francisco.
*Indicates completion of Honors Thesis.
High School Students
Okezue Bell (2022) graduated from Moravian Academy and is now an undergraduate student, majoring in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering, at Stanford University.
Jamie Chamberlain (2019) graduated from Brookline High School.
Lily Chamberlain (2016) graduated from Brookline High School and earned her BS in Nursing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Prashant Dilwali (2002) graduated from Lexington High School, earned his BS in Biology and Economics at MIT and MS in Health Administration at Johns Hopkins University, and is now Market Vice President at Somatus.
Judith Licht (2014) graduated from The Barrie School, earned her BS in Neuroscience at Muhlenberg College, and is now a PhD student in Neuroscience at Northwestern University.
Meera Narayanan-Pandit (2016) graduated from Winsor High School and is now an undergraduate student, majoring in Environmental Studies, at Connecticut College.
Amirna Nunez (2014) graduated from Boston Preparatory Charter Public School and earned her BS in Forensic Science and Criminal Justice at Saint Anselem College.
Matthew Oberst (2011) graduated from Minuteman Regional High School, earned his BA in Philosophy at Ithaca College, and is now pursuing his BS in Nursing at the University of New England.
Timothy Petliar (2013) graduated from Brookline High School, earned his BS in Mathematics and Economics and MS in Mathematics at New York University, and is now IB Credit Analyst at JP Morgan.
Vallery Sical-Mayen (2016) graduted from Mary Lyon Pilot High School and is now an undergraduate student at Emmanuel College.
Moriah Wiggins (2013-2014) graduated from the John D. O’Bryant High School of Mathematics and Science, earned her BS in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and is now Clinical Research Coordinator at Boston Medical Center.
Jason Yan (2023) graduated from Mystic Valley Regional Charter School and is now an undergraduate student, majoring in Biochemistry and Economics, at Brandeis University.
Research Assistants (RA) & Technicians
Lauren Ayers (2020-2022) is a PhD student in Genetics and Genomics at Boston University School of Medicine.
Jessica Bell (2018-2020) is a PhD student in Human Genetics at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Gustav Cederquist (2010-2012) earned his MD-PhD at Weill Cornell Graduate School and Medical College and is now a radiation oncology resident at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Thomas Collins (2018-2020) is an MD-PhD student in Pharmacology and graduate researcher in the Song Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Anna Cowan (2018) is a medical student at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and Clinical Research Associate at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Daniel Creighton (2018-2020) is a medical student at Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.
Michelle DeLisle (2005-2017) is Research Specialist in the Ginty Lab at Harvard Medical School.
Emma Foster (2021-2022) is Environmental Health and Safety Laboratory Operations Associate at SmartLabs.
Lydia Fozo (2022-2024) is an MD-PhD student at the Yale School of Medicine.
Alon Gelber (2016-2018) is an MD-PhD student in Bioengineering and graduate researcher in the Mukamel Lab at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.
Alice Gelman (2015) earned her MS in Biology at Tufts University and is now Senior Scientific Analyst at Aetion.
Nicole Gilette (2016-2018 Lab RA, 2015-2016 Undergrad) is an MD-PhD student in Neuroscience and graduate researcher in the Lipton Lab at Harvard Medical School.
Jennifer (Fain) Greenwold (2000-2001) earned her MD at the Yale University School of Medicine and is now Staff Psychiatrist at Boston University Student Health Services.
Wei He (2008-2009 Lab RA, 2005-2007 Undergrad*) earned her MD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and is now a critical care pulmonologist at Tufts Medicine.
Sarah Izen (2013-2014) earned her MS in Cognitive Neuroscience at Boston University and PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is now Human Factors Scientist at Exponent.
Bjorn L. Lee (1998-2000) earned his VMD at the University of Pennyslvania and is now the owner of and veterinarian at PenBay Veterinary Associates (Rockport, ME).
Emily Lee (2004-2006)
Joun Lee (2016-2017) is a PhD student in Clinical Psychology at the Teachers College of Columbia University.
Margaret Macy (1997-1998 Lab RA, 1996 Undergrad) earned her MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and is now Associate Professor, Pediatrics-Heme/Onc and Bone Marrow Transplantation, and the Hoover Family Endowed Chair in Cancer Research and Innovation at the University of Colorado School of Medicine
Paola Matos-Ruiz (2018-2021 Lab RA, 2017-2018 Undergrad) is an MD-PhD student at Harvard Medical School.
Elaine Nguyen (2015-2018) earned her JD at the Duke University School of Law and is now Associate at Covington & Burling LLP (Washington, DC).
John Nguyen (2015-2016) is Ophthalmic Technician/Research Assistant at Ophthalmic Consults of Boston (Boston, MA).
Brandon Pratt (2018-2020) is a PhD student in Pharmacology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tammy Ray (2020-2023) is a PhD student in Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
Derek Southwell (2001-2002) earned his MD-PhD at the University of California San Francisco and is now a neurosurgeon at Duke Health and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery, Assistant Research Professor in Neurobiology, and Assistant Professor in Pathology and Neurology at the Duke University School of Medicine
Cynthia St. Hilaire (2001-2003) earned her PhD in Biochemistry at Tufts University and is now Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute.
Karen Tran (2007-2009) earned her MS in Neuroscience at Brandeis Unviersity and MS in Biology and Biotechnology at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and is now Senior Scientist at Tessera Therapeutics.
Susan M. Wang (1996-1998) earned her DO at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and is now a clinical endocrinologist at and Executive Director of Connecticut Coastal Metabolism (Milford, CT) and Clinical Instructor at the Yale School of Nursing.
Carrie Wu (2009-2011) earned her MD at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and is now a psychiatrist at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Instructor at Harvard Medical School.
Clinical Research & Administrative Staff
Caroline Andrews, MS (2001-2015) is Senior Research Project Manager at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Sarah Bekele (2014-2017 RA, 2012-2013 Undergrad) earned her MS in Nursing at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and is now a psychiatric nurse practitioner fellow at the US Department of Veteran Affairs.
Sarah (Wichland) Breau (2009-2010) earned her MS in Physician Assistant Studies at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences and is now a physician assistant at DMC Primary Care (Londonderry, NH).
Melissa (Hoche) Culver (2008-2009)
Marti Goldenberg (2013-2014) earned her DO at the Cornell University/New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine and is now a clinical research fellow at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Eszter Hars, PhD (2007) is President of CG Scientific and Founder and CEO of the Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome Alliance.
Michelle (Cirioni) Janes (2007-2013) is Senior Assistant in Noninvasive Cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.
Madeleine Kinker (2016) earned her MEd in Adolescent Counseling at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is now a middle school counselor and girls varsity lacrosse assistant coach at Wilson Middle School (Natick, MA).
Kelsey McEntee (2013-2015) earned her MS in Nutrition and Health Promotion at Simmons University and is now a dietitian in private practice (Plainville, MA).
Nathalie McIntosh, MSc (1999-2001) earned her PhD in Health Services Research at the Boston University School of Public Health and is now Senior Director of Programs and Research at Massachusetts Health Quality Partners.
Christiana (Fitzgerald) Munroe (2008-2009) earned her MD at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and is now an oculofacial plastic surgeon at New Hampshire Eye Associates (Manchester, NH).
Ogochukwu Ndugba (2011-2013) is Surgical Clinical Reviewer at Denver Health (Denver, CO).
Carla Nyquist (2017-2020) earned her MPH in Environmental Health at the Colorado School of Public Health and is now Environmental Justice in Air Quality Specialist (Enforcement & Compliance) at the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
Andrew Perechocky (2008-2009) earned his MD at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and is now the Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department and an emergency medicine physician at Redeemer Health (Meadowbrook, PA).
Caroline Pierce (2009-2011) earned her MBA/MPH from the Management and Public Health Dual-Degree Program at Boston Univeristy and is now Lead Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton.
Allison Rose (2006-2008) earned her MD at the Emory University School of Medicine and was a neonatologist at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Associate Medical Director, NICU at Grady Memorial Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University. She is deceased.
Victoria Timmel (2017-2018) earned her MD at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstrat/Northwell and is now an obstetrics and gynecology resident at North Shore University Hospital and Long Island Jewish Medical Center.
Melissa Toffoloni (2011-2014) earned her OTD at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and is now an occupational therapist at Pilgrim Area Collaborative (Plymouth, MA) and Mass General Brigham and is the owner of Thrive Pediatric Occupational Therapy.
Megan Wirth (2018-2019 Clinical RA, 2016-2018 Lab RA) earned her MS in Genetic Counseling at the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions and is now a reproductive genetic counselor at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health.
Brian F. Young (2008) earned his MPH at Brown University and is now a PhD student in Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University and Research Project Manager at the National Bureau of Economic Research.