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Dr. Janet M. Mullington’s area of expertise and research is in sleep deficiency and its associated pathobiological consequences for host defense systems including inflammatory, autonomic (blood pressure, heart rate, heart rate variability), state-related neurophysiology, cognitive and subjective...

Dr. Shahzad Shaefi obtained his medical degree from University College London, England. After graduation, he pursued his professional training both in the United Kingdom and the United States. He completed an internship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and his residency in Anesthesiology at...

Quadri joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow in November 2024 to develop integrative models for studying the roles of coding and non-coding RNAs in resilience to Alzheimer's disease. He has a PhD in neuroscience from McGill University, Canada; an MSc in Control and Systems Engineering from the...

Dr. Jessica Cassavaugh earned her MD and PhD from the University of Vermont, where her doctoral work revealed a previously unrecognized mechanism regulating hypoxia-inducible factor-1α and angiogenesis in ovarian cancer. She completed clinical training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine at...

Dr. Asnani is a principal investigator in the BIDMC CardioVascular Institute and an Associate Member of the BIDMC Cancer Research Institute. She is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Asnani graduated from Duke University with a degree in chemistry and French as well as a degree in...

Brian O’Gara, MD, MPH is an Assistant Professor in Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School and attending anesthesiologist in the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, focused in both the Division of Critical Care and the Division of Cardiac Anesthesia. He joined the Department in...

Ashley is a graduate of UMass Boston with a background in communications, marketing, and events. She joined the CardioVascular Institute in 2024 and has worked with the Asnani Lab since. She also has a part-time Program Coordinator position in Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's Climate and Human...

Dr. Merchant is an Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School/ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Fellowship Director of Movement disorders program. After completing his medical school at Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital in Mumbai, India, he came to USA and completed...

Dr. Mathai's research interests span across areas as disparate as the biophysics of membrane transport of solutes and gases to the neural control of bladder function. He is currently investigating mechanisms of neural:bladder signaling. Using genetically engineered mice and monitoring calcium...