Jennie Pouget is visiting us from the University of Toronto, where she is an MD/PhD student under Jo Knight’s mentorship. She has been awarded the prestigious Weston Fellowship and the Fulbright scholarship to come and work with us for the coming year.
Samira Asgari recently completed her doctoral studies at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Asgari is funded by a fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation to explore rare variants in exome sequencing data in our tuberculosis cohort.
Rachel Knevel has received a Niels Stensen Committee Award to support her fellowship in our group. Knevel is a clinical rheumatologist with a strong background in genetics. She will be joining us from the University of Leiden, where she completed her doctoral training with Tom Huizinga.
Fan Zhang recently completed here doctoral degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is now joining our team to serve on the Accelerating Medicines Partnership as a Research Scientist.