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Our Team

“Valuable achievement can sprout from human society only when it is sufficiently loosened to make possible the free development of an individual’s abilities.” 

– Albert Einstein

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Omar Abudayyeh,
Ph.D.

Investigator and Assistant Professor 

Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Omar Abudayyeh is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, Investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Mass General Brigham’s Gene and Cell Therapy Institute, and faculty member with the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. He previously was a McGovern Fellow at MIT where he directed his own research group and before that was at Harvard Medical School and MIT as a graduate student in Feng Zhang’s lab at the Broad Institute, where he earned a Ph.D. researching novel CRISPR enzymes for genome editing, therapeutics, and diagnostics. Dr. Abudayyeh has been recognized as Technology Review Innovators Under 35, Bloomberg New Economy Catalyst, Endpoints 20 under 40 Next Generation of Biotech Leaders, 2022 Termeer Scholar, 2018 Forbes 30 under 30, Business Insider 30 under 30, a 2018 TEDMED Hive honoree, and a 2013 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow. Dr. Abudayyeh graduated from MIT in 2012 and also spent two years studying towards an MD at Harvard Medical School.

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Jonathan Gootenberg, Ph.D.

Investigator

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Jonathan Gootenberg, Ph.D. is Member of the Faculty at Harvard Medical School, and an Investigator at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Center for Vaccine and Virology Research, with affiliations with the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and the Department of Genetics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Before his position at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Gootenberg led an independent research group at MIT as a McGovern Fellow. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Biology from Harvard University, conducting research with Aviv Regev and Feng Zhang at the McGovern Institute and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and biological engineering at MIT. Dr. Gootenberg's work has been recognized with awards such as Forbes 30 Under 30, Technology Review 35 Under 35, Endpoints 20 Under 40, the Termeer Foundation Scholarship, and the American Association for Aging New Investigator award.

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AliÅŸan Kayabölen

Postdoctoral Associate

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Chris Fell

Postdoctoral Associate

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Zhaoqing Yan

Postdoctoral Associate

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Alejandro De Los Angeles

Postdoctoral Associate

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Patrick Paine

Postdoctoral Associate

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Kaiyi Jiang

Graduate Student

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Cian Schmitt-Ulms

Graduate Student

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Elvira Kinzina

Graduate Student

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Dan Lesman

Graduate Student

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Alexander Elsener

Graduate Student

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Eva Lecurieux

Graduate Student

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Owen Mulledy

Research Associate

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Harsh Ramani

Research Associate

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Josephine Carscadden

Research Associate

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Ian Harris

Research Associate

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Thomas Kesheshian

Research Lab Manager

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Stephanie Crumpley

Executive Assistant

Alumni

Ahsen Ozcan

Postdoctoral Associate

Lukas Villiger

Postdoctoral Associate

Nathan Zhou

Postdoctoral Associate

Brennan Lee

Graduate Student

Dennis Gankin

Graduate Student

Eleonora Ioannidi

Graduate Student

Marcos Manero Carranza

Graduate Student

Anderson Lee

Research Associate

Dario Tagliaferri

Research Associate

Keira Donnelly

Research Associate

Matt Yarnall

Research Associate

Samantha Sgrizzi

Research Associate

Sarah Yousef

Research Associate

Rohan Krajeski

Research Associate / Lab Manager

Justin Lim

Computational Associate

Julie Chen

Undergradute Fellow

Michael Trinh

Undergradute Fellow

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