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Nora Barrett

nbarrett@bwh.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Medicine

Innate immunity in the respiratory tract is exquisitely complex and tightly regulated, surveying 10,000 liters of air a day. While canonical pattern-recognition receptors such as toll-like receptors and C-type lectin receptors sense danger in the...

Gilles A. Benichou

gbenichou@mgh.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Surgery

Scientists currently in my laboratory: Dr. Claire Guinier - Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Bruno Gonzalez - Postdoctoral Fellow Mr. Hyshem Lancia – PHD student Ms. Natacha Carnel – PHD student Our laboratory is studying the role of different pathways of antigen...

Christophe Benoist

cb@hms.harvard.edu

Morton Grove-Rasmussen Professor of Immunohematology

Our lab has several interests, generally organized around the genetic and genomic control of immunological tolerance and autoimmune diseases. We study how T cells differentiate into different lineages in the thymus, and how the Aire transcription factor...

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...

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Rebecca Beuschel

Richard Steven Blumberg

Rblumberg@BWH.Harvard.Edu

Jerry S. Trier Professor of Medicine

The laboratory studies mucosal immunity and focuses on several pathways that are especially relevant to the physiologic processes and diseases related to these compartments. As such, the laboratory has a particular interest in the manner in which...

Lloyd Bod

lbod@mgh.harvard.edu

Principal Investigator at MGH Krantz Family Cancer Center

Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School

Associate Member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

The Bod Lab focuses on deciphering the landscape of phenotypic and functional B cell states in inflammatory diseases, in particular cancer. We are interested in exploring which B cell subset is favorable or detrimental for cancer progression, and by which...

Joshua Boyce

jboyce@rics.bwh.harvard.edu

Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine in the Field of Allergic Disease

The overall goal of my lab is to apply principles of allergic and inflammatory disease pathophysiology in humans to questions at the bench, and in turn to bring fundamental findings made at the bench back to the clinic. A dominant theme is how lipid...

Patrick J Brennan

pbrennan3@bwh.harvard.edu

Assistant Professor of Medicine

By the time we see patients in the clinic, pathology is usually established, and the flames of inflammation are already burning. What keeps inflammation going, and can we do anything about it? The central theme of our laboratory is to understand the...

Michael Brenner

mbrenner@bwh.harvard.edu

Elizabeth Fay Brigham Professor of Medicine

Autoimmune Disease Deconstruction: We have implemented a disease deconstruction pipeline using single cell and spatial technologies applied to inflamed tissues in humans to discover new cell types, cell states and pathways that mediate autoimmune disease...

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...

Oleg Butovsky

obutovsky@bwh.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Neurology

The major scientific interest of the Butovsky lab is to understand the biology of resident microglia and peripheral innate immunity in brain homeostasis and neurodegenerative conditions. The ultimate goal is to identify microglia- and monocyte-based...