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

Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: host-microbiome interactions, mucosal immunology Undergraduate Institution: Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University Hometown: Pavlovsky Posad (Russia) Other Places I have lived: Moscow (Russia)...

Rocky Barilla

Hometown: Westbury, New York Other Places Lived: Astoria (NY), Pearl City (HI), Baltimore (MD) Undergrad Institution: Johns Hopkins University What I like best about Boston: It's small enough to walk but has a lot to offer. Extracurricular Activities...

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...

Alice Bertocchi

Hometown: Bergamo, Italy Other Places Lived: London, UK and Boston, MA Undergrad Institution: King's College London Extracurricular Activities: cooking, travelling and spending time with friends Dissertation Project: Cancer Immunology and B-cell...

Rebecca Beuschel

Sabrina Bracero

Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project:Investigation of chemokine receptors in the context of autoimmune disease Undergraduate Institution: The College of William and Mary Hometown: Manassas, Va What I do for fun: Travel and explore the city

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...

Elena Christian

Hometown: Manassas Virginia Other Places Lived: San Diego California and Birmingham Michigan Undergrad Institution: Pennsylvania State University What I like best about Boston: The option to enjoy the city life Monday through Friday while also having easy...

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...

Kristina Correa

Victoria Cottrell

Research Interest and/or Dissertation Project: TBD, but I'm interested in the non-canonical roles of regulatory T cells and stromal cells in tissue homeostasis. Undergraduate Institution: Wellesley College Hometown: Houston, TX Other Places I have lived...

Joshua De Sousa Casal

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Other Places Lived: Mississauga, Ontario Undergrad Institution: University of Toronto What I like best about Boston: I love the amount of accessible green space within the city. Extracurricular Activities: I enjoy rock...

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

Hometown: Bay Area, California Other Places Lived: Beijing, Singapore, Colorado, Indiana Undergrad Institution: MIT What I do for fun: crochet amigurumi (stuffed animals), embroidery, watch Chinese dramas, ski, video call my cats Research Interest and/or...

Ralph Estanboulieh

Doremi Feng

Hometown: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Other Places Lived: Chicago Undergrad Institution: The University of Chicago What I like best about Boston: It's just a cute city :) Extracurricular Activities: Dancing (contemporary, traditional Chinese, ballroom) and...

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...

Jack Ghannam

My research interests include cancer immunology, systems immunology, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, cancer vaccines, and CAR-T cells. Undergraduate Institution:Loyola University Chicago Hometown:Detroit, Michigan Other Places I have lived...

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...