Meet our multi-disciplinary team of immunologists, geneticists, computational biologists, and physicians

Principal Investigator


Alexandra-Chloé Villani, PhD

Director, Single-Cell Genomics Program, Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases. Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Associate Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

Postdoctoral Fellows


Steven Blum, MD

Postdoc, Oncologist

Dr. Steve Blum is a medical oncology fellow who is interested in using systems immunology approaches to understand the relationship between the anti-tumor effects and toxicities that result from cancer immunotherapies.

Michelle Rengarajan, MD, PhD

Physician Investigator (Cl), Endocrinologist

Michelle is physician-scientist studying how epithelial and other stromal cells interface with infiltrating immune cells to preserve tissue function in organ-specific autoimmunity, using human thyroid autoimmunity as a model system.

Jacquelyn Nestor, MD, PhD

Postdoc, Rheumatology Fellow

Rachelly Normand, PhD

Postdoc

Rachelly is a computational postdoc in the lab interested in studying autoimmune and infectious diseases by integrating multi-omic measurements at the single cell level. Specifically, Rachelly is working on studying immune-epithelial cell interactions in the thyroid gland in autoimmune and healthy patients. In addition, Rachelly leads the computational efforts to create a pan-disease blood cell atlas as part of the global Immune Cell Atlas project. This project will include a total of 15M cells in 30 different diseases and will serve as a comprehensive references for future PBMC studies.

Kamil Slowikowski, PhD

Postdoc

Dr. Kamil Slowikowski is a computational biologist working on the analysis of single-cell transcriptomics studies with millions of cells from hundreds of patient samples.

Adrien Antoinette, PhD

Postdoc

Dr. Adrien Antoinette is a computational biologist utilizing single cell -omics approaches to study immune-related diseases. He is specially interested in systems approaches to understand cross-tissue and cross-disease pathological phenotypes.

Daniel Zlotoff, MD, PhD

Postdoc, Cardiologist

Dr. Dan Zlotoff is a heart failure fellow and is interested in immune responses in the heart. He is currently studying the underlying mechanisms of immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated myocarditis.

Leyre Zubiri, MD, PhD

Postdoc, Oncologist

Dr. Leyre Zubiri is a medical oncologist specializing in patients receiving immunotherapy and suffering from secondary adverse events on the Severe Immunotherapy Complications service at MGH. Her PhD was focused on the liquid biopsy as a way to identify soluble tumor biomarkers in patients with malignant melanoma. She is actively engaged in the clinical and translational research effort in these patients to develop biomarkers to diagnose these toxicities earlier, allowing for appropriate management.

Students


Elizabeth Byrne, MSc

PhD Student

Elizabeth is an MD-PhD student interested in women’s health. She is working with Dr. Villani and Dr. Douglas Kwon to define the single-cell landscape of the lower female reproductive tract.

Research Staff


Neal Smith, MSc

Computational Scientist

Neal is a computational biologist utilizing single-cell -omics approaches to study the immune system in healthy and pathological states. Specifically, he is interested in understanding T cell mediated responses and how we can utilize TCR repertoire data to better understand T cell biology.

Courtney Ambrose, MSc

Senior Research Technician

Swetha Ramesh

Computational Scientist

Swetha is a computational biologist who develops and utilizes computational approaches to analyze single-cell -omics datasets. Specifically, she focuses on the ICI-related myocarditis efforts and other collaborative projects.

Juliet Bramante

Research Associate

Juliet is a research technician based in the Kwon Lab who is currently working to optimize processing of female reproductive tract samples for single-cell sequencing.

Tos Chan

Computational Scientist

Isabela Kernin, MSc

Computational Scientist

Aonkon Dey

Associate Computational Biologist

Aonkon is interested in developing solutions for single-cell genomics that leverage a comprehensive knowledge of biology, mathematics and computer science. Currently engaged in using single-cell multi-omics to derive cellular biomarkers and gene signatures for immunotherapy response, immune-related adverse events, and developing in-silico strategies for finding new CAR T therapies for oncology.

Hoang Tran

Associate Computational Biologist

Hoang is interested in the intersection of genomics, transcriptomics, autoimmune diseases, especially in the context of non-coding regions in the human genome

Sidney Martin

Research Associate

Nandini Samanta

Research Associate

Roya Best

Research Associate

Wamia Said

Associate Computational Biologist

Wamia is a recent graduate from University of Virginia.

Alumni: Postdoctoral Fellows


Mazen Nasrallah, MD, MSc

Postdoc

Tariq Daouda, PhD

Postdoc

Molly Fisher Thomas, MD, PhD

Postdoc, Gastroenterologist

Pritha Sen, MD

Infectious Disease Specialist

Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Gary Reynolds, MBBS, PhD

Assistant Investigator, Rheumatologist

Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Gary is a Rheumatologist Clinician Scientist with an interest in applying genomics and systems biology approaches to immune-mediated rheumatic diseases with a particular interest in Giant Cell Arteritis.

Alumni: Research Staff


Jessica Tantivit, BSc

Research Associate

Kasidet Manakongtreecheep, BSc

Research Associate

Alice Tirard

Research Associate

John McGuire

Research Associate

Yash Sonthalia, MSE

Computational Biologist