Lab Members

Current Members of the Ravid Lab:

Anastasia Iris Karkempetzaki
PhD Student
2022-present

Nasi Huang
Research Associate/Lab Manager
2021-present

Xiaosheng Yang
Research Assistant
2021-2023

Andrew Piasecki
Undergraduate studies
2019-2021

Maissa M. Gaye
Post-doc
2019-2021

Carla S. Mazzeo
Post-doc
2018-2021

Cristal Thompson
Post-doc
2018-2019

Katerina Karagianni
Pre-doc
2018-2023

Christina Ward Torres
Post-doc
2018-2020

Hector Lucero
Research Associate
2014-present (part-time)

Shinobu Matsurra
Post-doc, Instructor of Medicine
2011-2016; 2016-present

Seng Kah Ng
Post-doc
2016-2018

Orly Leiva
Graduate Student
2016-2018

Milka Koupenova
Graduate Student, Post-Doc
2005-2010 (Pre-doc); 2010-2011 (Post-doc)

Anna Eisenstein
Graduate Student
2010-2014

Shenia Patterson
Graduate Student
2012-2016

Rongjuan Mi
Post-doc
2012-2013

Alexia Eliades
Graduate Student
2007-2011

Shannon Carroll
Graduate Student
2009-2013

Hillary Johnston-Cox
Graduate Student
2009-2014

Ajoy Bhupatiraju
Post-doc
2010-2011

Hongjie Chen
Post-doc
2007-2011

Laboratory Director, Functional Genomics SEMA4; Assistant Professor, Dept of Genetics and Genonic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

Nikolaos Papadontonakis
2007 – 2010

Kelley Burridge
Researcher, FDA
2010

David Rodriguez (Undergrad Student)
Summer 2006
Medical School

Andrea Rier (BS, Virginia Univ)
Undergraduate, Summer 2005
Resident, Family Medicine, Lancaster, PA

Maria Makitalo(Grad Student)
2004-2007
Ph.D Researcher, Sweden

Kenian Liu(PhD, Univ of Arkansas)
Post-Doc, 2005-2006
Assistant Professor, Moffit Cancer Center & Univ of South Florida

Dan Yang(Post Doc)
2004-2009
Staff Scientist, NHLBI

Donald J. McCrann(BS, Yale)
PhD student, 2004-2008
Research Group Leader
IDEXX Laboratories
Westbrook, ME

Cynthia St.Hilaire(BS, Univ. Vermont)
PhD student, 2004-2008
Assistant Professor, Univ of Pittsburgh

Hao Nguyen(BA, Univ of California, Berkley)
MD, PhD student, 2001-2005
Assistant Professor, UCSF

Dr. Guangyao Yu
Post-Doc, 2001 -2003
Research Scientist, TetraLogic Pharmaceuticals

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Anne Pierron (PhD student)
2001, MA with BU
University of Nice
France

Matthew Jones(BA, Univ of Delaware)
PhD student, 1998-2000
Associate Professor, Director of Molecular Medicine Graduate Program
BUSM

D. Chinnappan (PhD, All India Inst of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India)
Post-Doc, 2000-2003
Research Scientist, Astrazeneca

Ying Zhang (BSc, Univ Science & Technol, Heifei, China; MSc, Shanghai Inst of Biochemistry)
PhD student, 1998-2003
CEO, Biotech start-up in China

Ron Yaar(BSc, Boston Univ)
MD, PhD student, 1998-2002
Assistant Professor, Director of Resident and International Dermatopathology
Atlanta

Beatrice Hechler(PhD, INSERM, Alsace Strasbourg, France)
Post-Doc, 1998-2000
Research Group Leader, INSERM, France

Jun Lu(MSc, Nanjing Univ, Nanjing, P.R. China)
PhD student, 1997-2003
Massachusetts Institute Technology, Post-Doc
Associate Professor
Yale School of Medicine

Yulia Kaluzhny(MS, Moscow State Institute, Moscow, USSR)
PhD student, 1996-2001
Senior Scientist, MatTek Corporation

Cynthia Francis(PhD, BUSM)
Post-Doc, 1996-2000
Proctor & Gamble

Alex Thompson (MS, Univ of Coleraine, Ireland)
PhD student, 1995-1999
Faculty, Haematology Research Group, Centre for Cancer Research and Biology (CCRCB)
Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland

Shishinn Sun(PhD, St. John Univ, NY)
Post-Doc, 1995-1999
Assistant Professor
Albert Einstein School of Medicine

Jeffrey Zimmet(BS, Wesleyan Univ, Connecticut)
MD, PhD student, 1995-1998
Associate Professor
UCSF

Leah Cataldo(PhD, UMass)
Post-Doc, 1995-1997
Dean of Sciences, Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Zhi-Hui Zhao(MD/PhD, Beijing Med Univ, China)
Post-Doc, 1994 – 2000
Sr. Dir Antibody & Protein Discovery, QLB Biotherapeutics Inc

Zhengyu Wang(BS, East China Univ of Chem Technology)
PhD student, 1994-1998
PI and ES Cell Core Director for Molecular Medicine
Maine Medical Center

Wen-Che Chen (MS, Harvard School of Public Health)
MA, 1994-1997
Research Associate, Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Affiliates: Boston University Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Office Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Founding Director, Dr. Katya Ravid Executive Assistant, Ms. Robin MacDonald 617-358-8244