Our Team:
Faculty
Darrell Kotton, MD
David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine
Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine
dkotton at bu.edu
Konstantinos Alysandratos, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
kalysa at bu.edu
Jyh-Chang Jean, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of Medicine
Laboratory Staff
Olivia Hix
Laboratory Technician and Manager
Education: Wellesley College, B.A. in Biological Sciences and Japanese Language & Culture
ohix at bu.edu
Chantelle Simone-Roach
Laboratory Technician
Education: New York University, B.S. in Biomolecular Science
casimone at bu.edu
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Michael Herriges, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: PhD: University of Pennsylania
Research Interests: Regulation of lung progenitor fates during development and after lung epithelial injuries
herriges at bu.edu
Ruobing Wang, MD
Education:
Fellowship: Boston Children’s Hospital (Pediatric Pulmonology)
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital (Pediatrics)
MD: Stanford University School of Medicine
Harvard University, B.S. in Biochemical Sciences
Research Interests: iPSC modeling of cystic fibrosis
Jessie Huang, PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate
Education: PhD: Johns Hopkins University
BSE: University of Pennsylvania
Research Interests: Signaling mechanisms regulating self-renewal and differentiation of alveolar type II cells
hjess at bu.edu
Sheng Si, M.D.
Pulmonary Fellow
Education: Residency, Washington University in Saint Louis
New York University School of Medicine, M.D.
Harvard University, B.A. in Neurobiology
Research Interests: Profiling and phenotyping Muc5B expression in iPSC derived lung epithelium
Sheng.Si at bmc.org
Andrea Alber, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
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
Alberto Posabella, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: MD, Universita` degli studi di Pavia, Italy
Research Interests: In vitro differentiation of iPSCs towards the thyroid lineage to profile the kinetics of the entire transcriptomic program of human thyroid cells during their differentiation
aposabel at bu.edu
Graduate Students
![Yuliang_Leon_Sun[2]](/kottonlab/files/2017/04/Yuliang_Leon_Sun2-189x300.jpg)
Leon Sun
MD/PhD Student, Program in Molecular Medicine
Education: University of Wisconsin Madison- BS Biochemistry
Research Interests: Function and dysfunction of the lamellar body protein, ABCA3, in lung development and disease.
ysun35 at bu.edu
PhD Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences
Marally Vedaie
Masters student, Program in Medical Science
mvedaie at bu.edu