Meet The Team

  • Loren Walensky, MD, PhD

    PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

  • Greg Bird, PhD

    LEAD SCIENTIST

  • Marina Godes

    LAB MANAGER

  • Bethany Tesar

    PROJECT MANAGER

  • Christina Camara, PhD

    POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

  • Kamal Patel, PhD

    POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

  • Alice Ma, PhD

    POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

  • Mike Schmidt, PhD

    POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW

  • Catherine Newman, PhD

    MD-PhD STUDENT Chemical Biology

  • Ezra Yu

    MD-PhD STUDENT Chemical Biology

  • Micah Gygi

    PhD STUDENT Biological & Biomedical Sciences

  • Peiwen Shi

    PhD STUDENT Chemical Biology

  • Julia Vidlak

    MD-PhD ROTATION STUDENT

  • Caroline Smith

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

  • Clara Brotzen-Smith

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

  • Tommy DeAngelo

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

  • Jacob Gehtman

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

  • Caroline Barry

    UNDERGRADUATE INTERN

  • Misheel Amarsanaa

    UNDERGRADUATE INTERN

  • Michelle Lin

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

  • Joshua Rice

    RESEARCH ASSISTANT

About the Principal Investigator

Dr. Loren Walensky is a Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, Principal Investigator and Attending Physician in the Department of Pediatric Oncology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Boston Children’s Hospital, and Director of the Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program. He serves as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Cancer Biology at Dana-Farber and is affiliated with the graduate programs in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, and Chemical Biology at Harvard Medical School.