Our Team
Faculty
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Darrell Kotton, MD
David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine Principal Investigator (PI) |
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Hirofumi Kiyokawa, MD, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University Education: MD, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan PhD, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms regulating cellular identity, plasticity and carcinogenesis of airway basal stem cells hirofumi at bu.edu |
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Andrea Alber, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine Education: PhD, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Research Interests: In vitro differentiation of iPSCs towards the lung mesenchymal lineage to study lung mesenchyme development and disease aalber at bu.edu |
Laboratory Staff
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Leighann Sullivan, Ph.D. Education: Cornell University, B.S. in Biology Rice University, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology ls36 at bu.edu |
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Payel Basak, M.B.B.S.
Laboratory Technician Education: College of Medicine & JNM Hospital. West Bengal, India payelb at bu.edu |
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Marcus Vorpahl
Laboratory Technician Education: University of Massachusetts Amherst B.S. Biomedical Engineering mvorpahl at bu dot edu |
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Diya Gopal
Education: Northeastern University B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology/ minor in Digital Communications dgopal1 at bu dot edu |
Post-Doctoral Fellows
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Alexander M. Holtz, M.D., Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Fellow Education: M.D., University of Michigan Ph.D., University of Michigan Research interests: Generating hiPSC-derived lung-specific endothelial cells for disease modeling and cell-based therapies. aholtz at bu.edu |
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Adrien Tourneur, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow Education: PhD in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Research Interests: Thyroid, parathyroid, and endocrine lineage development |
Graduate Students
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Erin Hennessey
PhD student, Program in Biomedical Sciences, Program in Genetics Counseling Education: College of William & Mary – BS in Biology and Chemistry
Research interests: Pathogenesis of and treatments for ABCA3-associated childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD)
erinhenn at bu.edu
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Kevin H Chen
MD/PhD Student, Program in Molecular and Translational Medicine Education: Columbia University – BA in Biochemistry Research Interests: Developing cell therapies for chronic allograft dysfunction kchenh at bu.edu |
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Lauren Ayers
PhD student, Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – B.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Interests: Role of Chromatin In Regulating Lung Cell Fates ljayers at bu.edu |
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Connor Malloy PhD Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences, Graduate Program in Genetics & Genomics Education: Northeastern University, BS in Cell and Molecular Biology, minor in Business Administration Research Interests: Molecular mechanisms of and cell/gene therapy approaches for ABCA3-associated childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD) crmalloy at bu dot edu |
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Eitan Viker PhD student, Program in Bioinformatics
Education: BA in Computer Science and MS in Computer Science from Dartmouth College
Research Interests: Cell fates and states, attractor basins, lung epithelial injuries, single cell analytical methods,
transdifferentiation, and machine learning interpretability
evilker at bu dot edu |