meet our team
Emily Voce
Faculty Coordinator
emily_voce@fas.harvard.edu
Shlomi Brielle
Postdoctoral Fellow
Scarlett Cheon
HMS Immunology Master Student
Rebecca Freeman
Graduate student-Harvard BBS Program
Sakshi Garg
Undergraduate Student
Megan He
Graduate student Harvard MCO Program
Jin-Bon Hong
Visiting Fellow
Wayne Hsu
Undergraduate Student
Mark Khoury
Postdoctoral Fellow
Yuancheng Lu
Postdoctoral Fellow-Joint with Jonathan Weissman
Brian Raftrey
Postdoctoral Fellow
Emily Scott-Solomon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hannah Tam
Graduate student-Harvard BBS Program
Liana Tellez
Graduate student-Harvard BBS Program
Myrto Ziogas
Research Assistant
Lab Alumni
Former Postdocs:
- Bing Zhang – now assistant professor at School of Life Sciences, Westlake University, China
- Pai-Chi Tsai – now Senior Scientist at Johnson & Johnson
- Sekyu Choi – now assistant professor at Department of Life Sciences, POSTECH, Korea
- Christopher Fincher – now scientist at Beam Therapeutics
- Yulia Shwartz – now assistant professor at Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California
Former Students:
PhD
- Meryem Gonzalez-Celerio
Master
- Benjamin Boumard
- Seung Tea Kim
- Nouf Alharbi
- Daniel Stein
Undergraduates
- Luke Demas
- Sarah Champman
- Yuan Fang
- Haolong Zhu
- Jia Yin (Sally) Xiao
- Karla Sofia Reyes Aguirre
- Sam Tham
- Brian Young
- Aurelia Bleinroth
- Natnael Belay
- Christos Tsogkas
- Xinyi Yang
Former staff members
- Oliver Chung
- Celine Kang
- Steven Assaad
- Yenal Lakes
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (Emily Scott-Solomon)
- Simmons Award (Meryem Gonzalez, Megan He, Hannah Tam, Rebecca Freeman, Liana Tellez)
- New York Stem Cell Foundation Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellowship (Yulia Shwartz)
- DRB Career Development Award (Hannah Tam)
- The Jackson Laboratory HHMI Sponsored Travel Award (Hannah Tam)
- Best Presentation Award at HSCRB retreat 2022 (Megan He)
- Best Poster Award at HSCRB Retreat 2022 (Rebecca Freeman)
