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Fernando D. Camargo

fernando.camargo@childrens.harvard.edu

Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology

The Camargo laboratory focuses on the study of adult stem cell biology, organ size regulation, and cancer. Despite fantastic progress in developmental biology research over the past decade, one aspect of development and tissue homeostasis for which very...

Alanis Carmona

Biological Sciences in Public Health, Jessalyn Ubellacker Lab

Alanis grew up in Chicago and graduated from Bates college in 2018 with a degree in Biochemistry, minor in Chinese, and a concentration in Public Health. After graduating, she went off to be a research technician at The University of Chicago from 2018...

Renee Chang

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Philip Kranzusch Lab

Renee completed her undergraduate studies at Middlebury College and earned her bachelor’s degree in English and American Literatures in 2017. She then pursued her interest in tumor immunity as a research technician at the University of Pennsylvania, where...

Collins Cheruiyot

Immunology, Robert Manguso Lab

Collins Cheruiyot grew up in Eldoret, Kenya and graduated in 2016 from Brown University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Mathematics – Biology with honors. He then trained in Nicholas Haining's Lab as a research technician before enrolling in...

Priscilla Cheung

Biomedical and Biological Sciences, Fernando Camargo Lab

Priscilla Cheung was born in San Francisco, California. When she first learned in high school how scientific research can lead to the development of drugs that can cure human diseases, such as Herceptin for breast cancer, she became inspired to study...

Karen Marie Cichowski

kcichowski@bwh.harvard.edu

Professor of Medicine

The focus of my laboratory is to elucidate how deregulated cell signaling drives cancer. To achieve this we have been taking a multi-faceted approach; combining mouse modeling techniques with basic biochemical and cell biological studies. One of the most...

Daniel Cohen

Chemical Biology, Loren Walensky Lab

Daniel Thomas Cohen was born in Mountain View, California, and received his Bachelor of Science in Chemical Biology from UC Berkeley in 2012. Dan has been a creative and passionate scientist from the very beginning of his academic career. At Berkeley, he...

Kayla Cruz

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Taru Muranen Lab

Kayla grew up in Manila, Philippines and graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology. After graduating, she worked in the lab of Dr. Elizabeth Jaffee at Johns Hopkins where she studied cancer immunology. Her...

Susanna Dang

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Carla Kim Lab

Susanna grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and graduated in 2018 from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cell Biology with Honors. She conducted her senior thesis research in the lab of Dr. David Raulet...

Nika Danial

nika_danial@dfci.harvard.edu

Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular Metabolism

Our lab investigates the metabolic mechanisms that regulate cellular and organismal adaptation to physiologic and pathologic stress conditions. Within this context, we study fundamental aspects of metabolic biology, including causes and consequences of...

Rachel Davis

Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Humsa Venkatesh Lab

Rachel grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Amherst with dual degrees in Neuroscience and Microbiology. Here, she worked in Dr. Joseph Bergan’s lab studying behavioral neuroscience and completed an honors senior...

James A. DeCaprio

james_decaprio@dfci.harvard.edu