Lab Alumni

Graduate Students Position when in the lab Dates Position upon departing the lab or last known position
Charles Hank Adelmann MIT Biology Graduate Student 2016-2021 Postdoctoral Fellow, Fisher Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Siraj M. Ali HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 1998-2005 Vice President Clincial Development, Evaluation Oncology, Boston, MA
Liron Bar-Peled MIT Biology Graduate Student 2008-2013 Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Investigator, Center for Cancer Research, MGH, Boston, MA
Andrew Cangelosi MIT Biology Graduate Student 2016-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Newgard Lab, Duke Molecular Physiology Institute, Duke University, Durham, NC
Kendall Condon MIT Biology Graduate Student 2016-2021 Scientist, Genome Engineering, Bristol Myers Squibb, Lawrence, NJ
Lynne Chantranupong MIT Biology Graduate Student 2011-2016 Assistant Professor, Boston University, Boston, MA
Walter Chen HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2011-2016 Postdoctoral fellow, DeBerardinis Lab, UTSW, Dallas, TX
Maria Xana Frias MIT Biology Graduate Student 2003-2007 Assistant Professor of Biology, St. Francis College, Brooklyn, NY
Xin Gu MIT Biology Graduate Student 2015-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Greenberg Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Peggy Hsu HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2006-2011 Oncologist-Scientist, University of Michigan, Ann Harbor, MI
Thouis Ray Jones MIT Computer Science Graduate Student 2006 Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Heather Keys MIT Biology Graduate Student 2007-2016 Functional Genomics Platform Director, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Jibril Kedir HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2007-2021 Resident, Anesthesiology/Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Grace Liu MIT Biology Graduate Student 2017-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Vance Lab, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley, CA
Graham Jordan Ray MIT Biology Graduate Student 2017-2022 Bartel Lab, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Justin Roberts MIT Biology Graduate Student 2017-2022 Lourido Lab, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Julian Roessler MIT Biology Graduate Student 2019-2022 Jain Lab, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Paul Rosen MIT Biology Graduate Student 2019-2022 Yellen Lab, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Tim Peterson MIT Biology Graduate Student 2005-2010 Assistant Professor, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Yasemin Sancak MIT Biology Graduate Student 2004-2010 Assistant Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Robert Saxton MIT Biology Graduate Student 2014-2018 Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Shomit Sengupta MIT Biology Graduate Student 2004-2010 Vice President, Head of Biology, Atavisk, Cambridge, MA
Lawrence Schweitzer MIT Biology Graduate Student 2010-2015 Consultant, Third Rock Ventures, Cambridge, MA
Carson Thoreen, Ph.D. MIT Biology Graduate Student 2008-2013 Associate Professor, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Zhi Tsun HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2009-2015 Psychiatry Resident, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY
Max Valenstein HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2016-2022 Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA
Shuyu Wang HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2011-2016 Resident, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco, CA
Timothy Wang MIT Biology Graduate Student 2011-2017 Postdoctoral fellow, Svoboda lab, HHMI/Janelia Farms, MD
Douglas Wheeler Tri-Institutional MD,PhD Student 2008-2013 Postdoctoral fellow, Meyerson lab, Broad Institute/DFCI, Cambridge, MA
Rachel Wolfson HST MD, PhD Graduate Student 2013-2017 Postdoctoral fellow, Ginty Lab, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Greg Wyant MIT Biology Graduate Student 2014-2018 Assistant Professor of Medicine, MGH, Boston, MA
Postdoctoral Associates/Fellows Position when in the lab Dates Position upon departing the lab or last known position
Monther Abu-Remaileh, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2019 Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Kivanc Birsoy, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2016 Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Metabolic Regulation and Genetics, Rockefeller University, New York
Anne Carpenter, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2006 Director of the Imaging Platform, Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA
Jason Cantor, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2018 Metabolism Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research, Assist. Professor, Biochem. & Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI
Raghu Chivukula, M.D., Ph.D. Visiting Postdoctoral Associate 2018-2022 Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Attending Physician, MGH, Group Leader
Jacob Chudnovsky, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2006-2013 Sr. Research Scientist II, Biomedical Informatics Group, Foundation Medicine, Cambridge, MA
William Comb, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2011-2017 Sr. Director, Translational Biology, Profound Therapeutics, Boston, MA
Ellen Edenberg, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2014-2017 Sr. Associate, Clarion Healthcare, Boston, MA
Alejo Efeyan, PhD Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2015 Group Leader, Molecular Oncology Partner, Spanish National Cancer Research Center, Madrid, Spain
Elizaveta Freinkman, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2014 Director, Strategic Research, Immunai, Raleigh-Durham, NC
Genya Frenkel, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Weissman Lab, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Xin Gao, M.D. Visiting Postdoctoral Associate 2016-2017 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
Brian Grabiner, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2008-2015 Principle Scientist, Valo Health, Boston, MA
David A. Guertin, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2009 Professor, University of Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
Nada Kalaany, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2005-2010 Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Naama Kanarek, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2012-2019 Assistant Professor, Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Seong Woo (Tony) Kang, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2005-2013 Head, Early Discovery, Matchpoint Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Pekka Katajisto, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2009-2013 Assistant Professor, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Dohoon Kim, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2009-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA
Do-Hyung Kim, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2001-2004 Professor,  Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics at the University of Minnesota.
Mathieu LaPlante, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2011 Associate Professor, Centre de recherche de institute Universitario de cardiologie et pneumologie de Québec,   (CRIUCPQ) Laval University, Quebec, Canada
Nora Kory, Ph.D. HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2022 Assistant Professor, Molecular Metabolism, Harvard T. Chan, School of Public Heath, Boston, MA
Dudley Laming, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2013 Associate Professor, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI
Maria Mihaylova, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Biological Chemistry and Pharmacology Department, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Jason Moffat, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-2007 Professor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Andrew Mullen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2013-2015 Equity Research Associate, Oppenheimer & Co, Inc., Boston, MA
Michael Pacold, M.D., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2010-2016 Assistant Professor, New York University, New York, NY
Tao Peng, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 1998-2013 Research Scientist, Center for Expression Arrays, Dept of Microbiology, University of Washington, WA
Richard Possemato, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2014 Professor, Department of Pathology, at New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY
Anna Puzynska, Ph.D. HHMI Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2022 Fellow, Weissman Lab, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Jan Reiling, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2005-2013 Associate Principal Scientist, Cell Cancer Biology, Discovery and Translation, LifeMine Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Kacper Rogala, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2016-2021 Assistant Professor, Structural Biology and Chemical Systems Biology, Stanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University, CA
Dos S. Sarbassov, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 1999-2006 Professor, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
Yoav Shaul, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2015 Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Institute for Medical Research Israel Canada, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Joon-Ho Sheen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2002-2011 Team Leader and Research Fellow, LG Chem Ltd, Seoul, Korea
Kuang Shen, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2013-2021 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the Program in Molecular Medicine Department, Worcester, MA
Gregorz Sienski, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2017-2019 Associate Principal Scientist at AstraZeneca, Gothenburg, Sweden
Jessica Spinelli, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2019-2022 Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in the Program in Molecular Medicine Department, Worcester, MA
Martin Taylor, M.D., Ph.D. Visiting Postdoctoral Associate 2018-2022 Instructor, Pathology Department, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Stephen C. Wilson, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Associate 2017-2018 Scientist, Celgene Corporation, Boston, MA
Kris Wood, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2007-2012 Associate Professor, Duke University, Durham, NC
Omer Yilmaz, Ph.D. Visiting Postdoctoral Associate 2010-2014 Associate Professor, Department of Biology, Koch Institute, Cambridge, MA
Jorge Zeron-Medina Cuairan, M.D., Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2019 Associate Director in Translational Science and Oncology at AstraZeneca, Waltham, MA
Roberto Zoncu, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow 2008-2012 Professor, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology, Molecular and Cell Biology Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Research Technicians Position when in the lab Dates Position upon departing the lab or last known position
Mandy Duuong Sr. Research Tech 2019-2022 Lab Manager, Rouskin Lab, Harvard Medical School
Tiffany Pham Research Tech 2021-2022 Research Tech, Page Lab, Whitehead Institute
Ba Pham Research Tech 2020-2022 Research Tech, Weissman Lab, Whitehead Institute
Duyen Truong Research Tech 2019-2022 Industry
Jackie Watson Sr. Lab Manager IOCB Boston 2023-2025 Industry
Amanda White Research Tech 2010-2014 Industry
Samantha Murphy Research Tech 2014-2018 Industry
Undergraduate Students Position when in the lab Dates
Mona Abdelrahma MIT Undergraduate 2018
Alex Bagley MIT Undergraduate 2009-2010
Francesca Barrett Williams College 2010-2011
Khristian Bauer-Rowe MIT Undergraduate 2015-2019
Amanda Cao MIT Undergraduate 2010-2013
Shaye Carver Boston College Undergraduate 2019-2020
Christopher Cervantes MIT Undergraduate 2011-2013
Steven Chang MIT Undergraduate 2014-2015
Alice Chen MIT Undergraduate 2014-2015
Abigail Choe MIT Undergraduate 2014-2016
CiHun Choi MIT Undergraduate 2014
Jeff Chen MIT Undergraduate 2012
Tsering Choephel MIT Undergraduate 2011
Steve Cho MIT Undergraduate 2012-2014
Haeyoon Chung MIT Undergraduate 2015-2016
Andres Delgado MIT Undergraduate 2011-2012
Gabi de Paz MIT Undergraduate 2010
Erick Eguia MIT Undergraduate 2019-2020
Rachel Gaither MIT Undergraduate 2013-2014
Alysse Hamm MIT Undergraduate 2015
Tony Jones MIT Undergraduate 2016-2017
Alexander Jordan MIT Undergraduate 2012
Choah Kim MIT Undergraduate 2013-2016
Angela Koh MIT Undergraduate 2013-2015
Catherine Koch MIT Undergraduate 2012-2014
Pranav Lalgudi MIT Undergraduate 2019-2021
Christian Landeros MIT Undergraduate 2011
Carolyn Lanzkron MIT Undergraduate 2014-2016
Jamin Liu MIT Undergraduate 2013-2014
Ming Liu MIT Undergraduate 2012
Andrew Markhard MIT Undergraduate 2005-2006
Tim Maquis UNH Undergraduate 2014
Joaquin Maury MIT Undergraduate 2011
Jeff Meng Williams College 2009
Ayesha Ng MIT Undergraduate 2018
Atharv Oak MIT Undergraduate 2019-2021
Stephanie Oh MIT Undergraduate 2008-2009
Victoria Park MIT Undergraduate 2014
Joshua Rhodes MIT Undergraduate 2018
Robert Saxton MIT Undergraduate 2014
Sonia Scaria MIT Undergraduate 2014-2017
Max Schenk Visiting Student 2014
Jessica Schwab Visiting Student 2014
Afrah Shafquat MIT Undergraduate 2010
Jeffrey Shi MIT Undergraduate 2019-2020
Sumi Sinha MIT Undergraduate 2011-2012
Anthony Saucedo MIT Undergraduate 2009-2010
Ben Song MIT Undergraduate 2012
Kayla Tabb MIT Undergraduate 2016
Zhi Tsun MIT Undergraduate 2009
Nathan Varady MIT Undergraduate 2013
Linh Vuong MIT Undergraduate 2010
Jenny Wei MIT Undergraduate 2012-2014
Lindsay Westlake MIT Undergraduate 2014
Kristen White MIT Undergraduate 2012-2013
Yi Wu MIT Undergraduate 2011
Jason Yang MIT Undergraduate 2018-2020
Elizabeth Yuan HHMI Student 2014
Minerva Zhou MIT Undergraduate 2013-2014
Sherry Zhou MIT Undergraduate 2016-2020
Masters Students Position when in the lab Dates
Michelle Von Locquenghien Masters Student -  Leiden University 2018
Selin Alpagot Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2019
Shivani Bhawsar Masters Student - Stevens Institute  2019
Aimaiti Bomaliyamu Masters Student - University of Massachusetts  2019
Rikke Dueholm Masters Student - University of Copenhagen  2019
Nicole Eischer Masters Student - Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung 2019
Nevena Jankovic Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2019
Jeff Meng  Masters Student - Williams College 2019
Kaay Matas Nogueras Masters Student - Radboud University 2019
Anna Platzek Masters Student - Institute of Biochemistry II -   Goethe-Universität  2019
Justine Rutter Masters Student - Duke University  2019
Pim van der Helm Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2019
Sanne van der Rijt Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2019
Mariëlle van Grinsven Masters Student - Utrecht University 2019
Emma Walen Masters Student - Lehigh University  2019
Alana Dastous Masters Student - Chimie ParisTech - École National Supérieure   de Chimie de Paris  2020
Luc Debie Masters Student - Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung 2020
Sophie Dürauer Masters Student - Max-Planck-Institute für Kohlenforschung 2020
Matteo Giorno Masters Student - University di Bologna  2020
Miriam Güra Masters Student -    Leiden University 2020
Nico Hahn Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2020
Antonia Henne Masters Student - Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems   Biology  2020
Silvia Huerta Lopez Masters Student - Harvard University  2020
Patrycja Krawczyk Masters Student - University of Warsaw 2020
Alina Luchyshyn Masters Student - Williams College 2020
Eleonora Nardini Masters Student - University di Bologna  2020
Giacomo Palm Masters Student - University di Bologna  2020
Jeffrey Shi  Masters Student - Harvard University  2020
Brianna Wang Masters Student - McGill University  2020
Sandra Andersson Masters Student - Uppsala University  2021
Samantha Congreve Masters Student - Uppsala University  2021
Ulrich Dransfeld Masters Student - Heidelberg University 2021
Dominic Eberle Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2021
Daan Overwijn Masters Student -  Leiden University 2021
Jelmi uit de Bos Masters Student - University of Amsterdam  2021
Beatriz Castro Masters Student - University of Helsinki  2022
Max Hennink Masters Student - Radboud University 2022
Kera Xibinaku Masters Student - University of   Fachhochschule Technikum Wien  2022
Other Staff Members Position when in the lab Dates Position upon departing the lab or last known position
Tenzin Kunchuk Metabolomics Core Sr. Technician 2009-2022 Manager of Metabolomics Core, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, MA
Danica Rili Administrative Lab Manager 2019-2021 Industry
Edith Valeri Sr. Administrative Lab Manager 2009-2022 Administrative Director, IOCB Boston
Elizabeth Pizzi Administrative Lab Manager 2006-2009 Industry