Members

Principal Investigator

Jan Heng, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School & BIDMC; Director, Detection Unit, Precision RNA Medicine Core, BIDMC

Core Team

Junior Faculty & Fellows

  • Yaileen Guzman-Arocho, MD | Instructor, Pathologist
  • Lexie Berwick, MD | Instructor, Oncologist

Research Staff

  • Cristina Bogsan, PhD | Staff, Precision RNA Medicine Core

  • Emily Aronson | Research Assistant (Co-supervised with Dr. Gerburg Wulf)

Collaborative Training Pipeline

  • Lin Wang, PhD | Instructor (Project Co-mentor; Primary: Dr. Gerburg Wulf)
  • Zhaoji Liu, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow (Project Co-mentor; Primary: Dr. Gerburg Wulf)
  • Steven Vandal, PhD | Postdoctoral Fellow (Project Co-mentor; Primary: Dr. Gerburg Wulf)
  • Xiaohui Li, PhD | Visiting Scientist from Anhui Medical University (Project Co-mentor; Primary: Dr. Gerburg Wulf)

Alumni

Research Fellows & Interns

  • Korsuk Sirinukunwattana, PhD | Postdoctoral fellow

  • Christopher Rubadue, MD | Pathology resident
  • Allison Onken, MD | Pathology resident
  • Christina Luffman, MD | Pathology resident
  • Katherine Peterson | Summer Intern from Middlebury College, VT
  • Venkat Sankar | Summer Intern, Harker School, CA
  • Adithya Vellal | Summer Intern from Westford Academy, MA
  • Katherine Tian | Summer Intern, Harker School, CA
  • Emily Liu | Summer Intern, Harker School, CA
  • Megan Liu | Summer Intern, River Hill High School, MD

Research Staff

  • Andreea-Lucia Stancu, PhD | Research Assistant

  • Michael Pyle | Research Assistant

  • Michela Tufts | Research Assistant

  • Qing Cheng | Research Assistant

  • Vanessa Bret-Mounet | Research Assistant

  • Erica Massicott | Research Assistant

  • Brian Sardella | Research Assistant

Collaborative Training Pipeline

  • Omar Mohd | PhD candidate from MIT (Project Co-mentor; Primary: Dr. Patrick Doyle)
  • Suzanne Wetstein | Visiting PhD candidate from Eindhoven University of Technology (Project Co-mentor; Primary: Dr. Mitko Veta)