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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Konstantinos Alysandratos, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine kalysa 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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Kasey Minakin
Laboratory Technician Education: Syracuse University, B.S. in Biochemistry kminakin at bu.edu |
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Payel Basak, M.B.B.S.
Research Fellow Education: College of Medicine & JNM Hospital. West Bengal, India payelb at bu.edu |
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Jill Patel
Laboratory Technician Education: University of Rhode Island, B.S. Biological Sciences pateljr at bu.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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Michael Herriges, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow Education: PhD, University of Pennsylvania Research Interests: Regulation of lung progenitor fates during development and after lung epithelial injuries. herriges at bu.edu |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Aaron Dobie, MD
Post-Doctoral Fellow Education: MD, Ben Gurion University BA, University of California, Berkeley Research Interest: Axolotl lung regeneration acdobie at bu.edu |
Graduate Students
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Claire Burgess
PhD Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences Education: The University of the South – BS in Biology and Mathematics
Research Interests: Understanding the Mechanisms that regulate alveolar epithelial type I cell differentiation using pluripotent stem cells
claireb at bu.edu
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Martin Ma
MD/PhD student, Program in Molecular and Translational Medicine
Education: Tufts University, B.S. in Biochemistry
Research Interests: Engraftment of lung stem cells in injury and disease models
liangma at bu.edu
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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 |
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Erin Hennessey
PhD student, Program in Biomedical Sciences 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, Program in Biomedical Sciences
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology – B.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering Research Interests: In progress ljayers at bu.edu |