ALUMNI

Postdocs & Clinical Fellows

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Joanne Cole, Ph.D. (2016-2022)

Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine

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Jessica Kremen, M.D. (2016-2022)

Instructor, Boston Children's Hospital

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Priyanka (Priya) Nakka, Ph.D. (2019-2021)

Manager Statistical Geneticist, Regeneron Genetics Center

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Kathy Ushakov, Ph.D. (2016-2020)

Product Owner, AstraZeneca

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Michael Mendelson, M.D., Sc. M. (2017-2019)

Director in Translational Medicine & Data Science, Novartis

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Vidhu Thaker, M.D. (2013-2016)

Assistant Professor, Columbia University

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Jonathan Swartz, M.D. (2013-2016)

Clinical Pediatric Endocrinologist, Maine Medical Center

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Tune Pers, Ph.D. (2011-2016)

Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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Rany Salem, Ph.D. (2009-2016)

Assistant Professor, University of California at San Diego

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Yan Meng, Ph.D. (2013-2015)

Managing Director, Fulgent Genetics​

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Tonu Esko, Ph.D. (2012-2015)

Vice Rector of Development, University of Tartu

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David Kantor, M.D., Ph.D. (2010-2013)

Assistant Professor, Boston Children's Hospital

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Andrew Dauber, M.D., M.M.Sc. (2009-2013)

Chief, Endocrinology, Children's National Hospital, Washington D.C.

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Elizabeth Speliotes, M.D., Ph.D. (2005-2010)

Associate Professor, University of Michigan

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Mikko Kuokkanen, Ph.D. (2007-2009)

Senior Researcher, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland

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Guillaume Lettre, Ph.D. (2005-2009)

Professor of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Canada

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Helen Lyon, M.D., M.S. (2003-2009)

Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts

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Sekar Kathiresan, M.D. (2003-2008)

Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Verve Therapeutics

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Christopher Newton-Cheh, M.D. (2002-2008)

Assistant Professor, Physician Scientist, Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School

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Ines Sedlmeyer, M.D. (2001-2003)

Clinical  Researcher, Mowist Consulting, LLC

 

 

Graduate Students

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Eric Bartell, Ph.D. (2016-2023)

Senior Scientist, Empirico

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Rebecca Fine, Ph.D. (2014-2020)

Research Scientist, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

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Yu-Han Hsu, Ph.D. (2012-2018)

Computational Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

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Michael Guo, M.D., Ph.D. (2012-2016)​

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

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Rigel Chan, Ph.D. (2010-2014)

Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Medical School

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Sophie Wang, Ph.D. (2010-2014)

Research Scientist, IBM China Research Lab

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Zofia Gajdos, Ph.D. (2006-2010)

Director of Online Education, Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth

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Charleston Chiang, Ph.D. (2005-2011)

Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

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Catarina (Katie) Campbell, Ph.D. (2003-2007)

Head of Cancer Data Science, Broad Institute

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Other Lab Members

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Tracy Zhang (2024-2025)

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Vindhya Adamala (2024-2025)

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Sabah Vitalie (2023)

Undergraduate Student, Boston College

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Hannah Whitley (2016-2024)

Program Manager, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Sailaja Regeneron (2012-2023)

Researcher, Boston Children's Hospital, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard ​

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Samuel Gavronski (2022-2023)

PhD Student, University of Oxford

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Jonah Kaziyev (2021-2022)

Medical Student, Boston University

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​Grzegorz Gorski (2017-2021)

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Jenkai Miao (2018-2020)

Senior Product Analytics Developer, Claritev

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Kristin Tsuo (2016-2019)

Graduate Student, Harvard Medical School

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Ben Weaver (2015-2017)

Anesthesia Resident, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Chris Addis (2014-2016)

Legislative Aide, Massachusetts House of Representatives

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Jennifer Moon (2012-2015)

Ph.D. Student, University of Massachusetts

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Thutrang Nguyen (2008-2012)

Molecular Diagnostics Technologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital

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Michael Turchin, Ph.D. (2009-2011)

Scientist, Bristol Myers Squibb

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Sam Tischfield, Ph.D. (2006-2008)

Senior Computational Biologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Matthew Egyud, M.D. (2004-2007)

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland Medical Center

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Amit Lakhanpal, M.D., Ph.D. (2004-2005)

Instructor in Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

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Johannah Butler (2002-2008)

Family Nurse Practitioner, Beebe Medical Group

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Jared Drake (2001-2006)

Chief Operating Officer, Wisercare

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Kirk Lohmueller, Ph.D. (1999-2001)

Associate Professor, UCLA

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Todd Bersaglieri 

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James Nemesh

Principal Software Engineer, BROAD Institute​

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