Our Students
2024-2025 Enrollment
Total enrollment: 77
Average Size of Incoming Class: 12
Average Time to Degree:
Ph.D. Students: 5.89 | M.D./Ph.D. Students: 4.28
Natalia Andreeva - Beeker
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: Mucosal Immunology, Cellular Metabolism Current Lab: Wendy Garrett Undergraduate Institution: Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University Hometown: Pavlovsky Posad (Russia) Other Places I have lived...
Lorena Bergstrom
Undergraduate Institution: Amherst College Hometown: El Dorado Hills, CA Other Places I have lived: Amherst, MA; Leiden, Netherlands What I do for fun: Listen to music, go to concerts, write, sew, volunteer at animal shelter What I like best about Boston...
Claire Brown
Hometown: Des Moines, IA Other Places I have lived: Providence, RI & Frederick, MD Undergraduate Institution: Brown University Dissertation Lab: Jared Rowe, MD, PhD Rotation Labs: Jared Rowe, Kai Wucherpfennig Research Interests: CD8+ T cells, Immune...
Leslie Bustamante Hernandez
Undergraduate Institution: Arizona State University Hometown: San Luis Río Colorado, Mexico Other Places I have lived: Tempe (AZ) and now Boston! What I do for fun: I enjoy attending concerts, trying new coffee shops, and exchanging cooking recipes with...
Mark Cerasoli
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project:Enhancing immune trafficking into tumors and CAR NK cells. Undergraduate Institution:University of Maryland Hometown: Jarrettsville, MD Other Places I have lived:College Park MD, Oxford, Stockholm What I do...
Winiffer Conce Alberto
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: Cancer Immunology Undergraduate Institution:SUNY New Paltz Hometown:NY, NY Other Places I have lived:Dominican Republic What I do for fun:Staying active (biking, weight lifting, golf, tennis, running)...
Thomas Conway
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: Cancer immunology, T cell exhaustion, T cell tolerance Undergraduate Institution: Northeastern University Hometown: Milford, CT Other Places I have lived: Burlington, VT What I do for fun: I enjoy getting...
Victoria Cottrell
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: Stromal-immune cell interactions, tissue repair, type 2 immunity, lung biology, imaging techniques Undergraduate Institution: Wellesley College Hometown: Houston, TX Other Places I have lived: Atlanta, GA...
Bahawar Dhillon
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: Regulatory T Cells, Cancer Immunology, Genetics, and Computational Biology Undergraduate Institution: University of Rochester Hometown:Lahore, Pakistan Other Places I have lived: New York, NY What I do for...
Jiayi Dong
Dissertation Lab: Leslie Kean Interests: Mechanisms of T cell Cytotoxicity in Graft-versus-Host Disease Hometown: Bay Area, California Other Places Lived: Beijing, Singapore, Colorado, Indiana Undergrad Institution: MIT What I do for fun: crochet...
Sydney Fisher
Undergrad Institution: Brown University Hometown: Fairburn, Georgia Other Places I have lived: Providence, Rhode Island; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Chicago, Illinois What I do for fun: Running, baking, dancing, and reading! What I like best about Boston: It...
Jessica Frank
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project:Cancer Immunotherapy Undergraduate Institution:Stanford University Hometown:New York, New York Other Places I have lived:California, Colorado, Switzerland What I do for fun:Skiing, Hiking, Soccer, Scuba Diving
Halle Frey
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: cellular plasticity, innate immunity, host-microbe interactions Undergraduate Institution: University of Michigan Hometown: Kalamazoo, MI What I do for fun: Play the guitar, run/lift, card games with my...
Andrea Garmilla
Hometown: Charlotte, NC Other Places Lived: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic Undergrad Institution: MIT What I do for fun: I’m usually baking a new recipe or making large amounts of Mexican food. I love going to dance classes around Boston and finding...
Davis Garner
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: transposable elements and repetitive DNA in immune loci, epigenetic profiling, transposons in cancer, transposable element influence on genome architecture. Undergraduate Institution:Brigham Young University...
Xutong Gong
Undergraduate Institution:Johns Hopkins University Hometown:Beijing, China Other Places I have lived:Orange County, California; Baltimore, Maryland What I do for fun:Swimming, cuddling my yorkie, feeding my tarantula, watching funny animal videos
Simran Handa
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: I am interested in mucosal immunity, host-microbiome interactions, autoimmunity, and antibody engineering. Undergraduate Institution:Lewis & Clark College Hometown:Mukilteo, WA Other Places I have lived...
Kaeden Hill
Undergraduate Institution: Duke University Hometown: Atlanta, GA Other Places I have lived: Dallas, TX, and Durham, NC. I also spent a few months living abroad in Zanzibar and southern Chile. What I do for fun: Hike, read, birdwatch, ski, travel, explore...
Coco Holliday
Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project:TBD, interest in Neuroimmunology Undergraduate Institution:University of Virginia Hometown:Nashville, TN Other Places I have lived:Memphis, TN, Charlottesville, VA What I do for fun:I love running, yoga...
Veronica Hsu
Undergraduate Institution:UC Santa Barbara Hometown:Los Altos, CA Other Places I have lived:Hualien, Taiwan and Edinburgh, UK What I do for fun:I crochet whenever I have downtime, I recently learned to ski, and I love all water sports.
Kurt Hu
Dissertation Project: Interested in B-cell signaling, calcium homeostasis, and plasma cell differentiation Undergrad Institution: New York University Hometown: Vancouver, Canada Other Places I Have Lived: China and New York City What I Do for Fun: Skiing...
Anson Hui
Undergraduate Institution: Unviersity of Toronto Hometown: Markham, Canada What I do for fun: Piano, classical music, reading random interesting non fiction books
Keely Ji
Hometown: San Jose, CA Other Places Lived: Seoul, South Korea & Boston Undergrad Institution: University of California - Davis What I do for fun: Drawing/Painting, hiking Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: Cancer Immunology
Tamina Kienka
Hometown: Lagos, Nigeria Other Places Lived: North Carolina, Boston Undergrad Institution: North Carolina Central University Extracurricular Activities: Tennis, Poetry, Quality time with friends Dissertation Project: TBD
Jaclyn Kline
Hometown: Portland, OR Other Places Lived: Minneapolis, MN Undergrad Institution: Macalester College Extracurricular Activities: Dancing, baking, hiking, camping, backpacking, reading, jigsaw puzzles Dissertation Project: T cell immunology, tolerance...
Kurt Kongthong
Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand Other Places Lived: NH, MN, NY Undergrad Institution: Columbia University What I like best about Boston: The Esplanade! Extracurricular Activities: Biking, going to museums, seeing Broadway shows, exploring architecture, eating...
Cathleen Krabak
Undergraduate Institution: Davidson College Hometown: Buffalo, NY What I do for fun: I love painting, ceramics, and hiking! I also ride horses, so I enjoy getting out of the city for a good trail ride.