Our Team

 

Faculty

                           Darrell Kotton, MD

David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine

Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine

Principal Investigator (PI)

View CV 2022

short biography: about the PI

 

Hirofumi Kiyokawa, MD, PhD

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 dot edu

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 dot edu

Staff

Leighann Sullivan, Ph.D.
Laboratory ManagerEducation: Cornell University, B.S. in BiologyRice University, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biologyls36 at bu dot edu
Diya Gopal

Education: Northeastern University B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology/ minor in Digital Communications

dgopal1 at bu dot edu

Post-Doctoral Fellows

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 dot edu

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

tourneur at bu dot edu

Kathleen Mills, PhD
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Education: University of Chicago, BS in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Immunology
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences,
PhD in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis
Research interests: Using iPSC models to study telomere-related gene variants in pulmonary fibrosis
kmills11 at bu dot edu

Graduate Students

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 dot edu
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 dot edu 

 

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 dot edu 

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

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

 

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