Team

UllaHansen3Ulla Hansen
Boston University
Professor of Biology
Director, Graduate Program in MCBB
Additional information on Ulla:
Curriculum Vitae
Google Scholar
ResearchGate
NIH Biosketch
Boston University Website
Tackling Liver Cancer in the Lab


Current Members:

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Previous Members:

Postdoctoral Fellows & Visiting Students

Name Current / Most Recent Position
Daniel G. Tenen, M.D. Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA; Distinguished Prof in Medicine & Director, Cancer Science Institute of Singapore, National University of Singapore
Chung Han Kim, Ph.D. Laboratory Manager, Lab of Jane Clifford, Dept. Biochem­istry, Drexel Univ. College of Med., Philadelphia, PA
Jonathan Licht, M.D. Director, University of Florida Health Cancer Center, Gainesville, FL
Rebecca (Furkes) Sundseth, Ph.D. Teacher, Trinity School of Durham and Chapel Hill, Durham, NC
Sylvie Rimsky, Ph.D. Senior Scientist, LBPA, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Cachan, France
Wangdon Yoo, Ph.D. CEO, GeneMatrix, Korea
Quan Zhu, Ph.D. Instructor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Han-Fei Ding, Ph.D. Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Scientist, MCG Cancer Center, Medical Col­lege of Georgia, Augusta, GA
Davy Jones, Ph.D. Professor, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Elise Drouin, Ph.D. Associate Director, Translational Biomarkers, Agenus, Lexington, MA
Konstantin Ebralidse,M.D. Research Fellow, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Zrinka Pagon, M.D. Owner, World Care Middle Europe Ltd, Croatia


PhD Students: Harvard University and Boston University

Name Current / Most Recent Position
Paul Casaz Research Scientist 2, MassBiologics, Boston MA; Instructor, UMass Medical School, Worcester MA
Susan Batson Acupuncturist, Brain integration therapist, Mind and Body Healing Center, Quincy MA
Margaret Shirra Research Associate, Laboratory of Karen Arndt, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Wendy Hanna-Rose Professor and Department Head, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Penn State U., University Park PA
Gerald Sewack Director, TechAtlas Group, Boston, MA
Janet Volker Consultant
Christina Powell, Ph.D. Consultant, Scientific writing and management
Jelena  (Veljkovic) Garafalo Director, Scientific Strategy & Publications, Takeda Oncology, Cambridge MA
Martin Frith Professor, Tokyo Univ, Japan; and Research Scientist, Computational Biology Research Center, AIST
Kavitha Venkatesan Group Leader, Bioinformatics, Novartis Institutes of Biomedical Research, Cambridge MA
Peter Haverty Senior Computational Biologist, Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco CA
Karen Repetny Assoc. Director, Scientific and Competitive Intelligence, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge MA
Raegan O’Lone Sr. Scientific Program Manager, International Life Sciences Inst., Health & Environmental Science, Washington DC
Utsav Saxena, Ph.D. Associate Director, Dicerna Pharmace­uticals, Watertown MA
Nan Zhu Associate Investigator, Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee WI
Roxanne Cacioppo Director, Global Medical Affairs, Millenium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Cambridge MA
Stephanie (Tauber) Schneider Senior Data Analyst, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA
Hang Gyeong (Gene) Chin Research Scientist II, New England BioLabs, Ipswich MA
Jennifer Sherman Willoughby Manager, Communication and Publications, Medical Affairs, Alnylam Pharma­ceuticals, Cambridge MA
Sarah Yunes current student
Patrick Stoiber current student


MA Students: Harvard University and Boston University

Jill Koehler Fecko Previous: Associate Scientist, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Andover, MA; Current: Mother
Audra Kauffman Editor, N2 Publishing, Noblesville, IN
Laura Owens Dietician, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, MA
W. David Church Senior Research Associate, Ribon Therapeutics, Lexington, MA
Anushya Pandian Research Associate, Kintai Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Undergraduate Students: Boston University

Essi Vulli Anesthesiologist, Phoenix, AZ
Nicolas Aguirre MA Graduate student, School of Public Health, UMDNJ, Piscataway NJ
Gina Mantia (-Smaldone) PhD Student, Northwestern University
Brian McLaughlin Clinical Administrator, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Michael Arena Medical Student, Boston Univ. School of Medicine
Pavani Srimatkandada Research Technician, Yale Medical School
Tracy Madsen Medical Student, Boston Univ. School of Medicine
Heather McManus Freelance Research Consultant and Content Editor
Felix Nautsch Medical Master’s Program, NY Medical College
Xi Chen Medical student, U Mass Worcester Medical School
Michael Kaufmann Senior Associate – Pharma, Life Sciences R&D Advisory, NY
Nathalee Kong Medical student, U Mass Worcester Medical School
Trevor Grant Research Scientist, Minerva Biotechnologies, Waltham MA
Gina Daniel PhD student, Northwestern University, Chicago
Lucy Flynn Medical Student, Boston University School of Medicine
Sarah Woodson Medical Student, Unviersity of  Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA
Steven Kim Medical Student, Temple University School of Medicine, PA
Carmine Ballarano Medical Student, New York Medical College, NY
Stephanie (Qianhui) Liang Medical student, Boston Univ. School of Medicine
Umaru Barrie Medical Student, Univ. Mass. Worcester, Worcester MA
Linying Zhang PhD Student, Biomedical Informatics, Columbia University, NY
Mark Roberto PhD student, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY
(Ian) Paolo Mauricio Medical Student, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA
Blake Chancellor PhD Student, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Deena Qadir Research Associate II, Fulcrum Therapeutics, Cambridge MA
Jennifer Baily PhD student, UC Davis CA
James Whall Medical Student, California Northstate University, Elk Grove CA
Pietro Scribani Medical Student, Italy
Elizabeth Grinkevich Research Assoc I, Greka lab, Broad Institute, Cambridge MA
Flaminio Pavesi Medical Student, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA
Selin Gumusderelioglu PhD student, UC Davis, CA
Jean Luc Germany Medical student, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA