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Rui Zhao, Ph.D.
Rui is currently working as a PI at Novartis in San Diego.

Ana Pardo-Saganta, Ph.D.
Ana is an Assistant Professor and PI in the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) at the Universidad de Navarra in Navarra, Spain.

Purushothama Rao Tata, Ph.D.
Tata is a PI and Assistant Professor of Cell Biology at Duke University.

Hongmei Mou, Ph.D.
Hongmei is now a PI in the Mucosal Immunology & Biology Research Center at MGH.

Aleks Szymaniak, Ph.D.
Aleks now works as a principal scientist at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.

Kilang Yanger, Ph.D.
Kilang is now working as a life sciences consultant in Boston.

Azadeh Paksa, Ph.D.
Azadeh is now a scientist at Translate Bio.

Manjunatha Shivaraju, Ph.D.
Manju is now a Principal Scientist at Boehringer Ingelheim.

Vladimir Vinarsky, M.D.

Avinash Waghray, Ph.D.

Brian Lin, Ph.D.
Research Assistant Professor, Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology in Tufts University

Steven Zwick, Ph.D.
Steven is now a Principal Scientist at Cellular Intelligence in Boston.

Viral Shah, M.D., Ph.D.
Viral is now an Assistant Professor at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, where he leads the Shah Lab.
Former Post-docs

Daniel Montoro, Ph.D.
Dan is now a postdoctoral fellow in Aviv Regev’s lab at the Broad Institute.

Chaim Chernoff, Ph.D.
Chaim completed his Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Harvard in 2026, with a dissertation on the airway hillock.
Former Graduate Students

Ryan Chow
Ryan received the Fay prize and the Thomas T. Hoopes Prize at Harvard in 2015 for outstanding scholarly research. He is now an MD/ PhD candidate at Yale.

Brandon Law
Brandon is currently an MST MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and MIT.

Adam Lam
Adam received the Hoopes Prize for Outstanding Senior Thesis at Harvard for his work on airway explant culture and epithelial regeneration. He is currently an MD candidate at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

Jonathan Tran
Jonathan completed his senior thesis on epithelial regeneration and epithelial cell migration. He currently is a Teach for America Fellow in Oakland, CA.

Meryem Gonzalez Celeiro
Meryem received her PhD from ETH Zurich. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in the Hsu lab.

Leah Blank
Leah was a former undergrad student researcher who went on to get her MD at Johns Hopkins. She is now a neurologist at Penn Medicine.

Tim Fallon
Tim received his PhD from MIT. He is now a postdoctoral fellow at UCSD in the Moore lab.

David Seong
David is a MD-PhD student in the Stanford MSTP program enrolled in the Immunology PhD program (Idoyaga Lab).

Matthew Ho
Matthew graduated from Harvard College, where he studied Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology.

Eddie Chen
Eddie graduated from Tufts University with a B.S. in Biology and is now a medical student at McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston.
Former Undergrads

Karissa Brazauskas, M.D.
Karissa is now working as a pediatric pulmonologist at Tufts Medical in Boston.
Clinical Fellows
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