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Meyerson Lab - Cancer Genomics and Genome-Inspired Discovery

Meyerson Laboratory
CANCER GENOMICS AND GENOME-INSPIRED DISCOVERY

Lab Alumni
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María B. Bacó, B.Sc.
Member 2017-2020 (Research Associate III)
B.Sc., University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras
Subsequent Position: Scientist, Discovery Oncology Functional Genomics group at Merck
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Andrew Baker, B.S.
Member 2017-2020
B.S., Worcester Polytechnic
Subsequent Position: Graduate Student, Johns Hopkins University


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Shantanu Banerji, MD, FRCP(c)
Member 2007 - 2011 (Clinical Fellow) 
BS, University of Manitoba, Canada
MD, University of Manitoba, Canada
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine CancerCare, University of Manitoba, Canada
Current Position: ​Medical Oncologist, Clinician-Scientists CancerCare Manitoba; Associate Professor, University of Manitoba
umanitoba.ca/SBanerji|​Email

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Jordi Barretina, PhD
Member 2005 - 2008 (Research Fellow)
PhD, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Subsequent Position: Lab Head, Oncology Translational Research at Novartis
Current Position: ​Director of the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute
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Adam Bass, MD
Member 2006 - 2010 (Clinical Fellow)
MD, Duke University School of Medicine
Subsequent Position: Principal Investigator at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School
Current Position: Founding director of the Columbia Center for Precision Cancer Medicine; Director of gastrointestinal oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
​Phone|The Bass Laboratory|Email

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Alice Berger, PhD 
Member 2011 - 2016 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
​Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, Seattle, WA
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Ashton Berger, B.S.
Member 2016-2019 (Associate Computational Biologist)
B.S., University of Texas at Austin
Subsequent Position: Student at University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine
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Rameen Beroukhim, MD, PhD
Member 2005 - 2009 (Clinical Fellow)
AB, University of California at Berkeley
MPhil, PhD, University of Cambridge
MD, University of California at San Francisco
Subsequent position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Havard Medical School; Associate Member, Broad Institute
Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine at HMS; Associate Member of the Broad; Assistant Professor of Medical Oncology and Cancer Biology DFCI; Attending Physician Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Phone|The Beroukhim Lab|Email

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Ami Bhatt, MD, PhD
Member 2011 - 2014 (Clinical Fellow)
MD, PhD, University of California San Francisco
Subsequent​ Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine and Genetics, Divisions of Hematology and BMT, Stanford University
Current Position: Associate Professor of Medicine & Genetics at Stanford University
Phone|The Bhatt Laboratory|​Email

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Lear Brace
​Member 2009 - 2011 (Research Technician)
BS, Emmanuel College, Boston
Subsequent Position: Graduate Student in the Department of Genetics and Complex Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Current Position: Senior Scientist at OneSkin Technologies
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Angela Brooks, PhD 
Member 2011 - 2015 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, UC Berkeley
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz
Current Position: Associate Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz
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Susan Bullman, PhD
Member 2014-2019 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Cork Institute of Technology & Cork University Hospital
Subsequent Position: Assistant Member, Fred Hutch
"Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge." -Carl Sagan
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Diana Cai
Member 2013-2018 (Graduate Student)
BA, Columbia University

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Joshua Campbell, PhD 
Member 2013 - 2016 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Boston University
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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Scott L. Carter, PhD
Member 2007 - 2011 (Graduate Student)
PhD, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)=
Subsequent Position:
(1) Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
(2) Assistant Professor, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Phone|dfhcc.harvard.edu/carter|​Email

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Tzu-Hsiu Chen, MS
Member 2002 -2010
Subsequent Position: Senior Research Associate, Broad Institute
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Derek Chiang, PhD
Member 2005 - 2009 (Research Fellow)
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
BS, University of North Carolina
Subsequent Position: Senior Investigator at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
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Jeonghee Cho, PhD
Member 2005 - 2011 (Research Fellow)
PhD, Tufts University
Subsequent Position: Principal Investigator at Samsung Genome Institute
Current Position: Associate Professor at Dankook Univeristy 
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Peter Choi, PhD 
Member 2012-2018 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Division of Cancer Pathobiology, CHOP
"Life is tough, but you have to enjoy!" - Wenchu Lin
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Janice Chung
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Member 2019-2020 (Medical Student)
Harvard Medical School
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Fujiko Duke, BS
Member 2010 - 2016 (Senior Research Technician)
BS, Miami University, OH
​Subsequent Position: Manager GMP Lab, Gritstone Oncology
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Amit Dutt, PhD
Member 2006 - 2010 (Research Fellow)
PhD, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor, Ramalingaswami Fellow, at the Advanced Center for Treatment, Research, and Education in Cancer, Tata Memorial Center, Mumbai
The Dutt Laboratory|​Email

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Alyssa Fishbein, B.A.

Research Technician
2019-2021
B.A., Wellesley College
Current Position: Dental Student, University of Pennsylvania


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Donna Fonfara
Member 2016-2017 (Graduate Student)
MS, Utrecht University
Subsequent Position: Research Scientist, Tufts Medical Center


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Joshua Francis, PhD 
Member 2011 - 2016 (Research Scientist II)
PhD, University of Virginia
Subsequent Position: Associate Director Mol. Bio. and Sequencing, Gritstone Oncology
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Abbie Frederick
​Member 2009 - 2011 (Research Associate)
Subsequent Position: Graduate Student, Brown University



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Sam Freeman

Graduate Student, Harvard Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) Program 
2013-2021
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Hugh S. Gannon, PhD 
Member 2012-2018 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Subsequent Position: Senior Scientist, KSQ Therapeutics
“Knowledge of Nature is an account at bank, where each dividend is added to the principal and the interest is ever compounded; and hence it is that human progress, founded on natural knowledge, advances with ever increasing speed.” - G.K. Gilbert
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Galen Gao, B.S.
Member 2016 - 2018 (Associate Computational Biologist)
B.S., California Institute of Technology
Current Position: MD Student at UT Southwestern Medical Center
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Gad Getz, PhD
Member 2004 - 2010
MSc, Tel-Aviv University and Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Subsequent Position: Director, Cancer Genomics Informatics and Computational Biology, Broad Institute
Current Position: ​Director of the Cancer Genome Computational Analysis Group at the Broad; Professor of Pathology at HMS; Faculty member & Director of Bioinformatics at MGH Cancer Center and Department of Pathology
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Guangwu Guo, PhD
Member 2013-2015 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Beijing Genomics Institute
Subsequent Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Lohr Laboratory, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Current Position: Senior Scientist computational biology at TCR^2 Therapeutics Inc.
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Gavin Ha, PhD
Member 2014-2018 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, University of British Columbia
Subsequent Position: Assistant Member, Computational Biology Program, Fred Hutch

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Peter Hammerman, MD, PhD
Member 2009 - 2012 (Clinical Fellow) 
BAS, Stanford University 1999
MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania 2005-6
Residency, Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, 2006-2008 
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Associate Member, Broad Institute
Current Position: Chief Scientific Officer at MOMA Therapeutics
Phone|The Hammerman Laboratory|Email

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​Marilyn Hayes
Member 2006 - 2012 (Administrative Assistant to Dr. Matthew Meyerson) 
Subsequent position: Administrative Assistant to Dr. Adam Bass, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
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Elena Helman, PhD
​Member 2009 - 2013 (Graduate Student)
​PhD, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson) 

Subsequent Position: Bioinformatics Analyst, Personalis Inc.
Current Position: VP of Data Science and Bioinformatics at Xilis
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Diana Hubbard, BA
Member 2009 - 2010 (Data Analyst)
BA, University of Chicago
Subsequent Position: Graduate Student, Mathematics, Boston College​
Current Position: Professor of Mathematics at Brooklyn College
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Marcin Imielinski, MD, PhD
Member 2010 - 2015 (Clinical Fellow)
MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine & Core Member, New York Genome Center
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Joonil Jung, PhD
Member 2009 - 2013 (Research Fellow)
PhD, Brown University (Advisor: Kenneth Zaret, Ph.D.)
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (Advisor: Nancy Bonini, Ph.D.)
Subsequent Position: Principal Research Investigator, Sanofi Oncology

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Bethany Kaplan, BS, MS
Member 2010-2019 (Lead Research Technician)
BS, MS, Brandeis University
Current Position: Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca

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Nathan Kaplan, BS, MS
Member 2011 - 2016 (Lead Research Technician)
BS, MS, Brandeis University
Subsequent Position: Senior Research Associate, Sanofi Genzyme
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Hyunji Kim
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Member 2019-2020 (Undergraduate Student)
MIT
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Alex Kostic, PhD
​Member 2009 - 2013 (Graduate Student)
​PhD, Harvard University (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)

Subsequent Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Xavier Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital and Broad Institute
Current Position: Assistant Investigator at Joslin Diabetes Center, Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Immunobiology at HMS
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Thomas LaFramboise, PhD
​Member 2004 - 2006 (Research Fellow)
Subsequent Position: Associate Professor, Department of Genetics and Genome Sciences, Case Western Reserve University
Phone|The LaFramboise Laboratory|Email

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Se-Hoon Lee, MD, PhD
​Member 2009 - 2011 
PhD, Seoul National University College of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Seoul National University Hospital
Current Position: Medical Oncologist at Samsung Medical Center; Professor at Samsung Medical Center
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Rachel (Rienstra) Liao, PhD
​Member 2009 - 2013 (Graduate Student)
PhD, Harvard University (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)

Subsequent Position: Senior Project Manager, Global Alliance for Genomics and Health/Broad Institute
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Wenchu Lin, PhD
Member 2011 - 2014 (Staff Scientist)
PhD, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
Subsequent Position: Professor, High Magnetic Field Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The Lin Laboratory|Email

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Jackie LoPiccolo, MD, PhD
Member 2020-2021 (​Postdoctoral Fellow)
MD, PhD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine



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Craig Mermel, MD, PhD
​Member 2006 - 2010 (Graduate Student)
MD, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Harvard University (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)
Subsequent Position: Resident in Pathology, Massachusetts General Hospital
Current Position: Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google Health
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Yoichiro Mitsuishi, MD, PhD
Member 2014-2017 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
MD, PhD, Tohoku University
Current Position: ​Department of Respiratory Medicine, Juntendo University Faculty of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan



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Akinyemi I. Ojesina, MD, PhD
Member 2008 - 2015 (Research Fellow)
MD, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
PhD, Harvard University
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Phone|Lab|​Email

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Chinmay Patel
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Member 2019-2020 (Undergraduate Student)
Northeastern University
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Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu, PhD
Member 2010 - 2016 (Senior Computational Biologist)
PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Subsequent Position: Lead, Next generation sequencing pipeline, Sanofi, Cambridge, MA
Current Position: Associate VP at Excelra
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Trevor Pugh, PhD
Member 2010 - 2013 (Research Fellow)
​PhD, University of British Columbia
Subsequent Position:
(1) Scientist and Lead of the Clinical Genomics Research Program Princess, Margaret Cancer Centre
(2) Assistant Professor of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto
(3) Lead, Clinical Genomics Program, Ontario Cancer Institute​
Current Position: Senior Scientist at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre; Associate Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics Univeristy of Toronto; senior Investigator & Director of Genomics, OICR

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Aruna Ramachandran, PhD
Member 2014-2018 (Senior Scientist)
PhD, National Institute of Immunology, India
Subsequent Position: Associate Director, Alliance Management, Foundation Medicine
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi
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Mukundhan Ramaswami
​Member 2006 - 2009





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Alex Ramos, PhD
​Member 2006 - 2012 (Graduate Student)
​PhD, Harvard University (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)

Subsequent Position: Software Engineer at Apple

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Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, PhD
​Member 2001 - 2008 (Research Fellow)
PhD, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Subsequent Position: Associate Director, Klarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute
Current Position: Head of Cellular and Tissue Genomics; Executive Director Genentech
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Gordon Saksena, PhD
​Member since 2009 
Subsequent Position: Senior Software Engineer, Broad Institute​
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Naveen Sangji, MD, MPH
​Member 2006 - 2007
Subsequent Position: General Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital
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​Ganesh Shankar, MD, PhD
Member 2013 - 2015 (Clinical Fellow)
MD, Harvard Medical School
PhD, Harvard Medical School
Subsequent Position: Neurosurgeon, Massachusetts General Hospital
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Tanaz Sharifnia, PhD
​Member 2008 - 2014 (Graduate Student)
​PhD, Harvard University (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)
Subsequent Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Laboratory of Stuart Schreiber, Broad Institute
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Liam Spurr, B.S.
​Member 2018-2020 (Associate Computational Biologist)
Subsequent Position: Medical Student, University of Chicago




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Craig Strathdee, PhD
Member 2013-2019 (Senior Group Leader)
PhD, University of Guelph, Canada
Subsequent Position: Senior Director, Molecular Biology, Oncorus
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Kumiko Tanaka, MD
​Member 2007 - 2010 (Research Technician)
MD, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine
Subsequent Position: OB-GYN Resident at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
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Alison Taylor, PhD
Member 2013-2019 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Harvard Medical School
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology, Columbia University
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed." - Carl Jung
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Torstein Tengs, PhD
​Member 2002 - 2005 (Research Fellow)
Subsequent Position: Senior Scientist, National Veterinary Institute (Norway)
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Roman Thomas, MD, PhD
​Member 2004 - 2006 (Research Fellow)
Subsequent Position: Professor and Chair, Department of Translational Genomics, University of Cologne
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Roel Verhaak , PhD
​Member 2007 - 2010 (Research Fellow)
PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Subsequent Position: Associate Professor at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Department of Bioinformatics & Computational Biology
Current Position: Associate Director for Computational Biology The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine; Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Amsterdam University Medical Center
​Phone|The Verhaak Laboratory|​Email

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Srinivas Viswanathan, MD, PhD 
Member 2014-2019 (Clinical Fellow)
MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School
"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea." - Francis Bacon
Current Position: Assistant Professor of Medicine HMS, Attending Medical Oncologist at DFCI

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Luc de Waal, PhD
Member 2011 - 2016 (Graduate Student)
PhD, Utrecht University (Advisor: Dr. Matthew Meyerson)
​Subsequent Position: Research Scientist II, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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​Hideo Watanabe, MD, PhD
Member 2007 - 2015 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
MD, PhD, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
Subsequent Position:
(1) Assistant Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Med.
(2) Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
mountsinai.org/profiles/hideo-watanabe|The Watanabe Laboratory|​Email

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Jackie Watson
Member 2016-2020 (Research Technician)
B.A., Amherst College




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Barbara Weir, PhD
​Member 2003 - 2008 (Research Fellow)
Subsequent Position: Research Scientist II, Cancer Program, Broad Institute
Current Position: Principal Scientist, Functional Genomics at Janssen R&D
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Wendy Winckler, PhD
​Member 2005 - 2008 (Research Fellow)
Subsequent Position: Executive Director, Next Generation Diagnostics at Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Current Position: Chief Scientific Officer at Glympse Bio


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Sue-Ann Woo, PhD
​Member 2005 - 2011 (Research Fellow)
​PhD, Harvard University
Subsequent Position: Senior Scientific Liaison, Admera Health
Current Position: Director at Daiichi-Sankyo
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Brittany Woods
​Member 2010 - 2011 (Research Technician)
Subsequent Position: Graduate student at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Canter
Current Position: Equity Research Associate at Cowen Inc.
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Xiaoyun Wu, PhD 
Lead Scientist/Group Leader
2014-2021
PhD, Wadsworth Center, SUNY Albany and NY State Department of Health
Current Position: Early Oncology R&D at AstraZeneca
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Soyoung Yu
​Member 2006 - 2009 (Sr. Research Technician)
BS, UMass Amherst
MBA, Seoul National University
Subsequent Position: Business Development Specialist, Handok Pharmaceuticals, Korea
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Cheng-Zhong Zhang, PhD
Member 2011 - 2016 (Staff Scientist)
PhD, Caltech
​Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School
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Xiaoyang Zhang, PhD
Member 2013-2018 (Postdoctoral Fellow)
PhD, Dartmouth College
Subsequent Position: Assistant Professor of Oncological Sciences, The University of Utah

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