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
Leighann Sullivan, Ph.D.
Laboratory Manager and Research Technician
Education: Cornell University, B.S. Rice University, Ph.D.
ls36 at bu.edu
Kasey Minakin
Laboratory Technician
Education: Syracuse University, B.S. in Biochemistry
kminakin at bu.edu
McKenna Montminy
Laboratory Technician
Education: Wellesley College, B.A. in Biological Sciences
mmontmin 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
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
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
Hirofumi Kiyokawa, MD, PhD
Post-Doctoral Associate
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
P.J. Schnorr, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
BA in Philosophy and Economics, Boston College
Research Interests: Macrophages role in lung injury and repair
pschnorr at bu.edu
Graduate Students
PhD Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences
Bibek Thapa
PhD student, Program in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology & Biochemistry
Education: Colby-Sawyer College, B.A. in Biology
Research Interests: Mechanisms regulating compensatory lung regrowth in murine models following injury
brt at bu.edu