Alumni | polyaklab

Anne Trinh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 - 2020)

Currently - Garvan Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia

Alanna Pyke

Post-baccalaureate in Research Scholar Initiative at Harvard University

Currently - PhD Student, Stanford

Stephanie Zhao

Undergraduate Student (2018-2020)

Frank He, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 - 2019)

Currently - Senior Application Scientist at LifeCanvas Technologies, Boston, MA

Kunihiko Hinohara, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 - 2019)

Currently - Designated Associate Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine

Felipe Flores

Undergraduate Student (2016 - 2019)

Lina Ding

Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 - 2018)

Currently - Senior Translational Research Investigator, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cambridge, MA

Robert Witwicki, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 - 2018)

Currently - Scientific Director at The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL

Muhammed Ekram, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2017)

Currently - Cancer Geneticist, WuXi NextCODE, Cambridge, MA

Anthony Tran

Visiting Medical Student (2016)

Currently - Resident, Columbia University, New York, NY

Francisco Beca, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 - 2015)

Currently - Resident in Anatomic Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Andriy Marusyk, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2008 - 2015)

Currently - Assistant Professor, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL

Vanessa Almendro, PhD

Pediatric Visiting Scientist (2008 - 2014)

Currently - Head of Strategy and Operations at Eisai US, Cambridge, MA

Alessandra Merlini

Summer Research Student (2013)

Currently - Medical student, University di Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Kohei Kumegawa

Visiting Student (2012)

Currently - MD, PhD Student, Sapporo Medical University, Sapporo, Japan

Andrew Place, MD, PhD

Pediatric Oncology Fellow (2010-2012)

Currently - Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Associate Director of Developmental Therapeutics, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Filipe Martins, MD

Visiting Scientist (2009-2012)

Currently - Academic clinical fellow, Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK

Sibgat Choudhury, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2012)

Currently - Director, Research & Development, Metamark Inc., Cambridge, MA

Gerneiva Parkinsons

Summer Research Student (2011)

Currently - Undergraduate student, Howard University, Washington, DC

Hege Russness, MD, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2010-2011)

Currently - Group leader, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Lauren L. Marrotta, PhD

Graduate Student (2005 - 2010)

Kristopher Carver, PhD, MBA

Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2010)

Currently - Group Manager, Boston Scientific, St. Paul, MN

Hee Jung Kim, MD, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2008-2010)

Currently - Professor of Pathology, MizMedi Hospital Seoul, Korea

Jee Hyun Kim, MD, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2008-2009)

Currently - Professor, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Chief, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Bundang Hospital, Seoul, Korea

Maxim Tomashevsky

Undergraduate Summer Student (2008)

Currently - Senior Account Manager at Financeit, Toronto, Canada

Guillermo Peluffo, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2011 - 2019)

Min Hu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2008)

Currently - Chief Scientific Officer, Etern Biopharma, Shanghai, China

Ayten Kandilci, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2006)

Currently - Associate Professor, Gebze Technical University, Gebze, Turkey

Takaaki Imamura, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2004 - 2005)

Dale Porter, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2004)

Currently - Vice President and Head of Biology, Cedilla Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Nathaniel Jeason, BS

HMS BBS Rotation Student (2004)

Currently - Deputy Director for Life Sciences, Institute for Creation Research, Dallas, TX

Michele Taylor-Parker, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2004)

Currently - Program Director, Sciences and Biotechnology, Berkeley, CA

Jaana Lahti-Domenici, MSc

Technician (2001-2003)

Currently - Technician, Agendia, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Ana Nunes (Tablante), BA

Undergraduate Student (2002)

Currently - Oncology fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Selim Nasser, MD

Pathology Fellow (1999-2002)

Currently - Chair, Dept. of Pathology, University of Beirut, Lebanon

Katherine Murphy

Lab Technician (2018 - 2020)

Currently - Lab Technician, UMass Lowell

Bethlehem Lulseged

Undergraduate Student (2018-2020)

Yawei (Jenn) Ge, PhD

Graduate Student (2015 - 2019)

Currently - Medical Student Harvard HST

Shaokun Shu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2011 - 2019)

Currently - Assistant Professor, Peking University, Beijing, China

Nicholas Harper

Bioinformatician (2017 - 2019)

Currently - PhD Student, UMass Lowell

Ethan Krop

High School Student and Research Assistant (2018-2019)

Currently - Undergraduate at Rice University, Houston, TX

Michalina Janiszewska, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (2012 - 2018)

Currently - Assistant Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL

Natalie Kingston

Lab Technician (2016-2018)

Currently - MD/PhD Student, University of Washington in St. Louis

Doris Tabassum, PhD

Graduate Student (2011 - 2016)

Currently - Academic Editor at Research Square, Boston, MA

Sung Jin Huh, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2009 - 2015)

Currently - Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Alkermes, Waltham, MA

Ashim Subedee, PhD

Graduate Student (2010 - 2015)

Currently - Program Director at NCI SBIR Development Center, Rockville, MD

Ying Su, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2009 - 2014)

Currently - Medical Director, Clinical Development, Deciphera Pharmaceuticals, Waltham, MA

Elina Khasanova, MD

Visiting Scientist - Fullbright (2014)

Currently - Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellow at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada

Mattia Zucca, BA

Visiting Master's Student (2012 - 2013)

Currently - Clinical Trial Monitor, Syneos Health Clinical Solutions, Franborough, UK

Taku Yoshida, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2010-2012)

Currently - Executive Director, Drug Discovery Research, Astellas Pharma Inc., Ibaraki, Japan

Shoji Yamamoto, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2010-2012)

Currently - Senior Director, Oncology Labs, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd. Tokyo, Japan

Zhenhua (Jeremy) Wu, PhD

Bioinformatics Postdoc (2009-2012)

Currently - Investigator II at H3 Biomedicine

Shinji Takagi, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2010-2011)

Currently - Principal Scientist, Oncology Science Unit, MSD K.K., Tokyo, Japan

Reo Maruyama, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2011)

Currently - Attending Physician, Ushiku Aiwa General Hospital, Ushiku, Ibaraki, Chief of Division of Cancer Biology, Cancer Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan

Michael Fuchs

Summer Research Student (2011)

Currently - Medical Student, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

David Jee

Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant (2010-2011)

Currently - Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School

Michail Shipitsin, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2010)

Currently - Director, Head of Biomarker Development at Acrivon Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Noga Bloushtain-Qimron, MSc

Technician and Graduate Student (2004-2009)

Currently - SI&A Senior Country Approval Specialist Israel, EMEA Site Intelligence and Activation, Tel Aviv, Israel

Laura Mulvey

Undergraduate Student (2004-2008)

Currently - Resident in Emergency Medicine,
Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY

So Yeon Park, MD, PhD

Visiting Scientist (2007-2008)

Currently - Professor of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea

Jun Yao, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2008)

Currently - Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Daniel Carrasco, BSc.

PTechnician (2004-2007)

Currently - Medical student, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL

Ian Krop, MD, PhD

Oncology Fellow (2000-2006)

Currently - Associate Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Takaaki Imamura, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2005)

Currently - Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Faith Ozsolak, PhD

HMS BBS Rotation Student (2004)

Currently - Associate Director at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Boston, MA

Gergely Gyuris

High School Summer Student (2004)

Currently - Resident in Internal Medicine, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Boston, MA

Minna Allinen, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2004)

Currently - Head of Integrated Hospital Care at Novartis Finland, Helinski, Finland

Anna Merlos-Suarez, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2001-2002)

Currently - Strategic Projects and Philanthropy Officer, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Pankaj Seth, PhD.

Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2002)

Currently - Assistant Professor of Medicine, Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Charlotta Enerback, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2001)

Currently - Professor of Dermatology, University of Linköping, Linkoping, Sweden