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Nouran Abdelfattah

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Stephen Elledge Lab

Nouran graduated with high distinction from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, receiving a bachelors degree in Biochemistry and Biology. While in college, Nouran participated in the Harvard Stem Cell Research Internship (HSCI) program under the supervision...

Utsarga (Tito) Adhikary

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Loren Walensky Lab

Tito Adhikary was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada where he spent the first year of his life before moving to Kolkata, India. He graduated from the University of Calcutta, India with a Bachelor's degree in Chemistry with Honors before obtaining a...

Frederick W. Alt

alt@enders.tch.harvard.edu

Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics

The broad focus of the Alt lab is the elucidation of mechanisms that generate antigen receptor diversity in the Immune system and mechanisms that maintain genomic stability in mammalian cells. Over the past decade we have developed remarkably sensitive...

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Kidist Ashami

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Kevin Haigis, Ana Anderson, and Vijay Kuchroo Labs

Kiddy grew up in Ethiopia and graduated with a BA in Biology from Berea College. At Berea, she studied how some organisms transitioned from commensalism to parasitism under the mentorship of Dr. Rosen. Next, she worked at Vanderbilt University...

Beatrice Awasthi

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Kevin Haigis Lab

Beatrice graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in biological sciences and an M.Eng. in biomedical engineering. At Cornell, she worked in the lab of Dr. David Putnam on the development of vaccine adjuvants. During the summers, she held internships...

Shadwa Bayoumi

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Kimberly Stegmaier Lab

Shadwa grew up in North Carolina and graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and a minor in Chemistry. As an undergraduate, she studied an actin–microtubule crosslinker in Drosophila, sparking her interest in the molecular...

Alice Bertocchi

alicebertocchi@fas.harvard.edu

Program: Immunology Lab: Stephanie Dougan & Judith Agudo Favorite quote "Would you like some coffee?" Alice was born in Bergamo, Italy and got her Bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science from King’s College London in 2020. Currently, Alice is a PhD...

Alice Bertocchi

Immunology, Stephanie Dougan & Judith Agudo Labs

Alice grew up in Bergamo, Italy and graduated from King’s College London in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in Biomedical Science. During her bachelor’s degree, she conducted research in the lab of Dr. Shiv Pillai at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and...

Stephen Charles Blacklow

stephen_blacklow@hms.harvard.edu

Gustavus Adolphus Pfeiffer Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

The long-term goal of our research program is to understand the molecular logic of signal transduction, focusing on proteins implicated in human disease. The laboratory currently emphasizes structure-function studies in Notch signaling and maintains an...

Myles Brown

myles_brown@dfci.harvard.edu

Emil Frei III Professor of Medicine

The primarily focus of the work in my laboratory is the molecular understanding of the action of steroid hormone receptors and their role in human cancer. We were the first to identify the p160 class of steroid receptor coactivators and to show that...

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Joan S. Brugge

joan_brugge@hms.harvard.edu

Louise Foote Pfeiffer Professor of Cell Biology

We are interested in elucidating the cellular processes and pathways that are involved in the initiation and progression of epithelial tumors. Currently, most of our studies involve investigations relating to breast cancer; however we have recently...

Sara Buhrlage

saraj_buhrlage@dfci.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Dysregulation of protein homeostasis drives many types of cancer, infection and neurodegeneration. The ubiquitin system performs a central role in maintenance of proteostasis through reversible post-translational addition of (poly)ubiquitin to proteins, a...