Principal Investigator

Rahul Kohli

B.S. (Biochemistry), University of Michigan, 1998

Ph.D. (Biochemistry & Molecular Pharmacology), Harvard Medical School, 2004

M.D. Harvard Medical School, 2004

Curriculum Vitae

Senior Research Investiguru

Jared Parker

B.S. (Chemistry), University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2004

Ph.D. (Molecular Biophysics), Johns Hopkins Medical School, 2010

Research Specialists

Ashley Chen

B.A. (Chemistry), University of Chicago, 2024

Graduate Students

Noa Erlitzki

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group

B.S. (Biochemistry), Georgia State University, 2018

M.S. (Biophysical Chemistry), Georgia State University, 2019

Peter Bailer

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group

B.S., B.A. (Biochemistry, Music Composition), University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 2021

Keisuke Yamada

Bioengineering Department

Co-mentored by Dr. Junwei Shi

B.E. (Electrical Engineering and Bioscience), Waseda University, 2022

Aleksia Barka

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group

B.A. (Biochemistry, Biophysics), University of Pennsylvania, 2022

M.S. (Chemistry), University of Pennsylvania, 2022

Matthew Schnell

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group

B.A. (Biochemistry, Spanish), University of Kansas, 2020

M.S. (Chemistry), Villlanova University, 2024

Yuen Ting Chow

Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Graduate Group

A.B. (Molecular and Cellular Biology), Harvard University, 2023

A.M. (Chemistry), Harvard University, 2023

Jasmine Zhang

Master of Biotechnology Program

B.S. (Microbiology), University of California, San Diego, 2024

Rotation Students

Wren Garcia

Cell and Molecular Biology - Microbiology, Virology, and Parasitology Graduate Group

B.S. (Microbiology), Indiana University Bloomington, 2025

Undergraduate Students

Jojo Zhu

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Naseebullah (Naseeb) Andar

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Department of Economics

Nidhi Achanta

Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Lab Alumni

Masters Trainees:

Allen Li 2021-2023 MD/PhD Student at University of Texas, Southwestern

Niklaus Evitt 2018-2021 VP of Operations at Switch Bioworks

PhD Trainees:

Christopher S. Nabel 2010-2012 Johnson Clinical Investigator, Koch Institute, MIT

Charlie Y. Mo 2010-2016 Assistant Professor, Bacteriology, U of Wisconsin

Emily K. Schutsky 2012-2018 Research Associate, Arakis Therapeutics

Monica Y. Liu 2013-2016 Assistant Professor, Medicine, U of Wisconsin

Jeffrey M. Kubiak 2013-2017 Assistant Professor, Pathology, Weill Cornell

Jamie E. DeNizio 2013-2019 Research Scientist, Verve Therapeutics

Zachary M. Hostetler 2014-2018 Physician-Scientist Track Fellow, Medicine, Penn

Amanda N. Samuels 2014-2019 Resident, Veterinary Medicine, Ohio State University

Kiara Berrios 2017-2022 Postdoctoral Fellow, Liu Lab, HHMI/Broad Institute/Harvard

Tong Wang 2017-2021 Physician-Scientist Track Fellow, Pathology, Stanford

Michael B. Cory 2018-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow, Synthetic Biology HIVE, Harvard

Juan Serrano 2018-2022 Physician-Scientist Resident, Radiology, UCSF

Christian Loo 2019-2025 Associate Consultant, Lumanity

Chirstina Hurley 2020-2025 Care Team Assistant, CHOP

Postdoctoral Trainees:

Daniel J. Crawford 2011-2014 Research Scientist, Intellia Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Matthew J. Culyba 2013-2017 Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Uday Ghanty 2013-2020 Postdoctoral Fellow, Kleiner Lab, Priceton University

Research Specialists:

Laura C. Wang 2010-2012 Middle School Science Teacher, NYC, NY

Kiran S. Gajula 2010-2019 Senior Scientist, Insmed Incorp

Trevor Selwood 2015-2020 Research Specialist

Meiqi (Maggie) Luo 2018-2020 Research Specialist

Johanna Fowler 2021-2022 VMD Candidate, Tufts

Rosella (Rosie) Cuomo 2022-2024 PhD Candidate (Ecology), Penn State University

Brooke Adams 2024-2025 MD Candidate, Geisinger College of Health Sciences