{"id":1147,"date":"2017-04-13T14:46:31","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T18:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/?page_id=1147"},"modified":"2026-01-16T10:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:34:11","slug":"lab-members-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/lab-members-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Faculty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nDarrell Kotton, MD<\/b><\/p>\n

David C. Seldin Professor of Medicine
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Director, Center for Regenerative Medicine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Principal Investigator (PI)<\/p>\n

View CV 2022<\/a><\/p>\n

short biography: about the PI<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nHirofumi Kiyokawa, MD, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Boston University<\/p>\n

Education:<\/strong> MD, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan<\/p>\n

PhD, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan<\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Molecular mechanisms regulating cellular identity, plasticity and carcinogenesis of airway basal stem cells<\/span><\/p>\n

hirofumi at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

<\/td>\nAndrea Alber, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

Education:\u00a0<\/strong>PhD, Ecole polytechnique f\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne, Switzerland<\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> In vitro differentiation of iPSCs towards the lung mesenchymal lineage to study lung mesenchyme development and disease<\/p>\n

aalber at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Laboratory Staff<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Leighann Sullivan, Ph.D.<\/b>
\nLaboratory Manager<\/p>\n

Education: <\/b><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cornell University, B.S. in Biology<\/p>\n

Rice University, Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Cell Biology<\/p>\n

ls36 at bu dot edu<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nPayel Basak, M.B.B.S.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laboratory Technician<\/p>\n

Education:\u00a0<\/strong>College of Medicine & JNM Hospital. West Bengal, India<\/p>\n

payelb at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nMarcus Vorpahl<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Laboratory Technician<\/p>\n

Education: <\/span><\/strong>University of Massachusetts Amherst B.S. Biomedical Engineering<\/p>\n

mvorpahl at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nDiya Gopal<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Education: <\/span><\/strong>Northeastern University B.S. Cell and Molecular Biology\/ minor in Digital Communications<\/span><\/p>\n

dgopal1 at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Post-Doctoral Fellows<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nAlexander M. Holtz, M.D., Ph.D.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post-Doctoral Fellow<\/p>\n

Education:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

M.D., University of Michigan<\/p>\n

Ph.D., University of Michigan\u200b<\/p>\n

Research interests:<\/strong> Generating hiPSC-derived lung-specific<\/p>\n

endothelial cells for disease modeling and cell-based therapies.<\/p>\n

aholtz at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

\"\"<\/td>\nAdrien Tourneur, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post-Doctoral Fellow<\/p>\n

Education:<\/strong> PhD in pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences at Universit\u00e9 Libre de Bruxelles (ULB)<\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong> Thyroid, parathyroid, and endocrine lineage development<\/span><\/p>\n

tourneur at bu dot edu<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Kathleen Mills, PhD<\/strong><\/div>\n
Post-Doctoral Fellow<\/div>\n
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Education:\u00a0<\/strong>University of Chicago, BS in Biological Sciences with a specialization in Immunology<\/div>\n
Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences, PhD in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis<\/div>\n
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Research interests:<\/strong> Using iPSC models to study telomere-related gene variants in pulmonary fibrosis<\/div>\n
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kmills11 at bu dot edu<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Graduate Students<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nErin Hennessey<\/strong><\/p>\n

PhD student, Program in Biomedical Sciences, Program in Genetics Counseling<\/p>\n

Education:<\/strong> College of William & Mary – BS in Biology and Chemistry<\/div>\n
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Research interests:<\/strong> Pathogenesis of and treatments for ABCA3-associated childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD)<\/div>\n
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erinhenn at bu dot edu<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Kevin H Chen<\/strong><\/div>\n

MD\/PhD Student, Program in Molecular and Translational Medicine\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Educat<\/strong>ion:<\/strong>\u00a0Columbia University – BA in Biochemistry<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>: Developing cell therapies for chronic allograft dysfunction<\/span><\/p>\n

kchenh at bu dot edu\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Lauren Ayers<\/strong><\/div>\n
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PhD student, Graduate Program in Genetics and Genomics<\/div>\n

Educat<\/strong>ion: <\/strong>Massachusetts Institute of Technology – B.S. in Nuclear Science and Engineering<\/p>\n

Research Interests<\/strong>: Role of Chromatin In Regulating Lung Cell Fates<\/span><\/p>\n

ljayers at bu dot edu\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Connor Malloy<\/strong><\/p>\n

PhD Student, Program in Biomedical Sciences, Graduate Program in Genetics & Genomics<\/p>\n

Education:\u00a0<\/strong> Northeastern University, BS in Cell and Molecular Biology, minor in Business Administration<\/p>\n

Research Interests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Molecular mechanisms of and cell\/gene therapy approaches for ABCA3-associated childhood interstitial lung disease (chILD)<\/p>\n

crmalloy at bu dot edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Eitan Viker<\/strong><\/p>\n

PhD student, Program in Bioinformatics<\/span><\/p>\n

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Education:<\/strong> BA in Computer Science and MS in Computer Science from Dartmouth College<\/p>\n

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Research Interests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell fates and states, attractor basins, lung epithelial injuries, single cell analytical methods,<\/div>\n
transdifferentiation, and machine learning interpretability<\/div>\n

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evilker at bu dot edu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/profiles.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":55,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1147\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/kottonlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}