meet our team

Emily Voce
Faculty Coordinator
emily_andrews@fas.harvard.edu

Steven J. Assaad
Research Assistant

Sekyu Choi
Postdoctoral Fellow

Christopher Fincher
Postdoctoral Fellow

Megan He
Graduate Student

Celine Kang
Research Associate

Yulia Shwartz
Postdoctoral Fellow

Emily Scott-Solomon
Postdoctoral Fellow

Hannah Tam
Graduate Student

Brian Young
Undergraduate Student
Lab Alumni
Karla Reyes Aquirre
Undergraduate Student
Meryem Gonzalez Celeiro
Graduate Student
Jin Yin Xiao
Undergraduate Student
Nouf Alharbi
Graduate Student
Seung Tea Kim
Institute Fellow
Samantha Tham
Undergraduate Student
Bing Zhang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Funding & Awards to Current and Past Trainees
- Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship (Yulia Shwartz)
- The Israel National Postdoctoral Award Program for Advancing Women in Science (Yulia Shwartz)
- Harvard Distinction in Teaching Awards (Bing Zhang)
- Simmons Award (Meryem Gonzalez)
- la Caixa Fellowship (Meryem Gonzalez)
- First Prize, Trainee presentation HSCI retreat 2018 (Meryem Gonzalez)
- Thesis Award Harvard University (Daniel Stein)
- Morgan Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University (Haolong Zhu)
- Peirce Fellowship, Harvard University (Yuan Fang)
- Charles A. King Trust Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (Bing Zhang)
- Simmons Award (Megan He)
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (Megan He)
- HSCI Internship Program (HIP) (Samantha Tham)
- Best Poster Award in 14th Harvard Stem Cell Institute Malkin Retreat (Sekyu Choi)
- Best Elevator Pitch Video 14th Annual HSCI Retreat (Yulia Shwartz)
- Best poster award GRS on Epithelial Differentiation and Keratinization (2019) (Yulia Shwartz)
- Best Poster Award in HSCRB Retreat (Bing Zhang)
- Ilanit 2020 Postdoc Fellowship Award (Yulia Shwartz)
