People

Jane Banahan

Research Assistant at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Jane graduated from Muhlenberg College in May 2024 with a B.S. in Neuroscience and Philosophy. She is interested in the biological mechanisms of behavior, particularly aggression and maladaptive...

Chih-Kai Chen

Visiting Summer Graduate Student
Chih-Kai obtained his M.D. degree from National Taiwan University in 2025 and is currently a master's student majoring in neuroimmunology at Sorbonne University, with the hope of pursuing a Ph.D. in...

Vedant Desai

Visiting Summer Student

Vedant is a sophomore at the University of Connecticut, studying Physiology and Neurobiology, and is also on the pre-med track. His interests are primarily in neurological disorders and the biological...

Chris Doan

Bioinformatician I at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Chris Doan earned his B.Pharm from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and his MSc in Bioinformatics and Human Genetics from Virginia Commonwealth University. He...

Kristina Dujic

Visiting Summer Student

Kristina recently graduated from Queensborough Community College and is continuing her studies in Biotechnology at the City College of New York. With a background in molecular biology and...

Maria Mavrikaki, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Maria Mavrikaki is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at BIDMC and Harvard Medical School. Maria is a neuroscientist who transitioned from McLean Hospital and Harvard's Department...

Masiel Nuñez

Visiting Summer Student

Masiel currently attends Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York, where she is pursuing an Associate in Health Sciences and will be graduating in Fall 2025. Her research...

Khushi Patel

Undergraduate Research Student

Khushi Patel is a current junior at Boston University pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Health Science with a minor in Biology on the pre-med track. She plans to attend medical school following her...

Anupama Rai, PhD

Instructor in Pathology at Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Anupama did her Ph.D. in cell and molecular neurosciences from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. She worked as a Postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, before joining the Mavrikaki lab in...

Jarvis Savage

Undergraduate student at Duke University
Visiting Summer Student

Jarvis Savage is a rising college senior at Duke University who is pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Biomedical Engineering and a double major in Chemistry. He is interested in...