Research | OFD | Fellowships & Opportunities

2023

• Esra Abaci Turk, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics; Newborn Medicine; Assessment of Placental Function before and after laser treatment in twin to twin transfusion
• Milena Andzelm, MD, PhD; Instructor in Neurology; Neurology; Human Genetic Variation in the Central Nervous System Response to Interferon-Gamma
• Philip Boone, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Genetics; Genome misfolding in neurodevelopmental disorders
• Margaret Chang, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; Tissue resident memory T cell and stromal cell interactions in the inflamed joint
• Ai Wern Chung, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine; In congenital heart disease, does altered brain connectivity correlate with neurodevelopmental outcomes in infants and executive function in adults?
• Jaclyn Davis, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics; Pulmonary; Innovative Care Delivery in Cystic Fibrosis: assessing patient perspectives on the role of telehealth and the impact of remote patient monitoring
• Matthias Lambert, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Genetics; Understanding muscle fiber size disproportion in TPM3-related myopathy
• Kelsey Miller, MD, EdM; Instructor in Pediatrics; Emergency Medicine; Examining Physician Development Through Emergent, Informal Collaborations with Other Health Professionals
• Kévin Moulin, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology; Myocardial Microstructure in Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot Patients Using Diffusion Tensor MRI
• Prathima Nandivada, MD; Assistant Professor of Surgery; General Surgery; Tight junction mediated epithelial barrier dysfunction in Hirschsprung disease
• Isdin Oke, MD, MPH; Instructor in Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology; Newborn Genetic Screening to Improve Equity in the Visual Outcomes of Retinoblastoma Survivors
• Lara Wahlster, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology; Mapping Genetic Predisposition to Pediatric B-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Allison Wu, MD, MPH; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition; Intervening in Food Insecurity to Reduce and Mitigate (InFoRM) Childhood Obesity
• Daniel Zeve, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; The role of aging on human intestinal stem cell function
• Yanjia (Jason) Zhang, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition; Microbially derived lipids in a mouse model of obesity

2022

• Mehdi Benamar, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; Role of Notch3+ Regulatory T Cells in Multiple Sclerosis
• Taek-Chin Cheong, PhD; Instructor in Pathology, Pathology; Genome-wide identification of oncogenic fusions in human cancer
• Kathleen Cullion, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical Critical Care; Developing nanoparticle drug delivery systems for venous malformations
• ​​​Darius Ebrahimi-Fakhari, MD, PhD; Instructor in Neurology, Neurology; Functional Genomic Screen To Identify Novel Therapeutic Targets For Childhood-Onset Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia
• Jessica Kremen, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Understanding experiences with “detransition” and cessation of gender-affirming treatment (CGAT) in a large pediatric gender clinic
• Jing Li, PhD; Instructor in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, PCMM; Activation mechanisms of latent TGF-β1 by integrins αVβ6 and αVβ8
• Nina Mann, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology; Discovery of Novel Monogenic Causes of Voiding Dysfunction
• Stefanie Schmieder, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition; Structure and Function of Glycosphingolipid-enriched Apical Membrane Nanodomains in Innate Host Defense
• Steven Siegel, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics (7/1/2022), Infectious Diseases; Personalizing COVID-19 Protection in Stem Cell Transplant Patients
• Tregony Simoneau, MD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Pulmonary; Improving Asthma Morbidity by Virtual Home Visits for Children with Severe Asthma
• Hatim Thaker, MD; Instructor in Surgery, Urology; Functional assessment of novel Botox strategies to improve neurogenic bladder treatment
• Puja J. Umaretiya, MD; Clinical Fellow (Instructor, 7/1/22), Hematology-Oncology; Reducing Inequities Through Systematic Social Needs Screening in Pediatric Palliative Care
• Richard Voit, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology; Mechanisms of MECOM network co-regulation in the transcriptional control of AML
• Franziska Wachter, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics (7/1/2022), Hematology-Oncology; A Pilot Study to evaluate the Feasibility and Tolerability of post-hematopoietic stem cell transplant prophylaxis with Decitabine combined with Filgrastim for children and young adults with AML, MDS and related myeloid malignancies.
• Jia Zhu, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Genetic Dissection of the Pathophysiology of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome

2021

• Elena Crestani, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; Novel predictive biomarkers of food allergy in children (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
• Neil Dani, PhD; Instructor in Pathology; Mechanisms of Choroid Plexus Secretion in the Developing Brain
• Jessica Garbern, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology; Quiescence and maturation of pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes
• Maria Gutierrez-Arcelus, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology; B cell activation via the B-cell receptor and Toll-like receptor pathways to reveal genetic heterogeneity in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
• Rebecca Harris, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Sex-Biased Gene Expression in Humans: Defining the Roles of Sex Hormones and Sex Chromosomes (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
• Camilo Jaimes-Cobos, MD; Assistant Professor of Radiology; White Matter Microstructure in Fetuses with Congenital Heart Disease *
• Venkat Magupalli, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Mechanisms Underlying Sustained Cytokine Release in the Hyperactive Macrophage State
• Amar Majmundar, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology; Molecular pathogenesis, disease modeling and treatment of NOS1AP variant-associated nephrotic syndrome
• Kate Millington, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Defining the role of sex steroids in cardiovascular disease risk (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)
• Karen Ocwieja, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases; Single cell sequencing in human tissue culture models of congenital Zika syndrome
• John Prensner, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology; Non-canonical proteins as driver genes in MYC-driven medulloblastoma
• Ronen Schneider, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology; Mechanistic characterization of newly discovered DAAM2-related nephrotic syndrome
• Eleonora Tamilia, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine; New Method to Deconstruct the Epileptogenic Brain Network and Assist Epilepsy Surgery Planning (ICCTR/Harvard Catalyst Supplement)

2020

• Banu Ahtam, DPhil; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine, Fetal Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC) — How seizure activity affects brain connectivity in the immature brain
• Andrea Bauer, MD; Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery — Growing Up with a Plexus Injury
• Alex Cuenca, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Surgery — The role of group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2) in allograft tolerance
• Ryann Fame, PhD; Instructor in Pathology — Interaction between metabolism and ion transport in the CSF niche
• Dongwon Lee, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology —Cell-type-specific cis-regulatory element maps for kidney genomic discovery
• Hojun Li, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Mechanistic underpinnings of progenitor cell proliferative potential
• Sarah Morton, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine — Computational Prioritization of Coding and Non-Coding Variants in Congenital Heart Disease
• Amy O’Connell, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine — The Role of WNT2B in Intestinal Hypoxic Injury
• Yifeng Peng, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology — Real-time Non-Invasive Monitoring of Intravascular and Intracardiac Pressure using Caged Microbubbles as Novel Ultrasound Acoustic Reporters
• David Shulman, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, DFCI Pediatric Oncology — Evaluation of targeted therapy and precision biomarkers in patients with Ewing sarcoma
• Margaret Stefater, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology — Role of Intestinal Luminal and Epigenetic Factors to Mediate Intestinal Metabolic Remodeling After Gastric Bypass Surgery
• Mary Whitman, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology — Early synaptic signaling in development of eye movement circuitry
• Kee Kiat Yeo, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, DFCI Pediatric Oncology — Genomic Landscape, Clinicopathological Feature and Outcome of Adolescent and Young Adult (AYA) Central Nervous System (CNS) Tumors

2019

• Dusica Bajic, MD, PhD; Assistant Professor of Anaesthesia — Impact of Infant Rat Morphine Administration on Immediate and Longterm In-Vivo Brain Size Using MRI
• Johanna Calderon, PhD; Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry — Autism Spectrum Traits in Congenital Heart Disease: Impact of Neuropsychiatric Morbidities and Modifiable Risk Factors
• Avika Dixit, MBBS, MPH; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases — Insights into the geographical distribution of drug resistant tuberculosis using large scale genomic data
• Zhongjie Fu, PhD; Instructor in Ophthalmology — Metabolic Support for Photoreceptor Health
• Eric Gaier, MD, PhD; Clinical Fellow in Ophthalmology (Instructor appointment 7/1/2019) — Exploiting Principles of Timing-Dependent-Synaptic Plasticity to Treat Amblyopia
• Lakshmi Ganapathi, MBBS; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases — Determinants of Risk Behaviors and Utilization of HIV Prevention Services Among Young People in High-Risk Populations in India
• Peng Guo, PhD; Instructor in Surgery, Vascular Biology — Engineering CD24 antibody-drug conjugate for metastatic osteosarcoma
• Laura Lehman, MD; Assistant Professor of Neurology — Imaging and Cognitive Biomarkers in Children with Moyamoya
• Loretta Li, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, DFCI-Pediatric Oncology — Mechanisms of Resistance to Type I and Type II JAK2 Inhibitors in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (B-ALL)
• Kenneth Michelson, MD, MPH; Instructor in Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine — Delayed Diagnosis of Serious Pediatric Emergency Conditions
• Nora Renthal, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology — Translating Human Height Genetics to Skeletal Biology by Functional Genomics of the Growth Plate
• Jennifer Snaman, MD, MS; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, DFCI — MyPref: A Communication and Decision-Making Tool for Adolescent and Young Adults with Advanced Cancer
• Yunhao Tan, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition — Synthetic Immunology and Anti-tumor Immune Responses

2018

• Christina Astley, MD, ScD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology — Immunologic Signatures of Type 1 Diabetes Onset and Temporary Remission
• Melissa Burns, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Therapeutic Targeting of the Hedgehog Pathway in T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
• Lillian Guenther, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Interrogation of CITED2 as Novel Target in Ewing Sarcoma
• Lauren Henderson, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology — Th1 Reprogramming of Regulatory T Cells in Oligarticular Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
• Lisa Mahoney, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics (7/1/2018), GI-Nutrition — Exhaled Breath Condensate Metabolomic Biomarkers of Extraesophageal Reflux
• Kiran Maski, MD, MPH; Assistant Professor of Neurology — Cognitive Effects of Disrupted Nighttime Sleep in Pediatric Narcolepsy
• Sarah Nelson, PhD; Instructor in Anesthesia (7/1/2018), Pain Treatment — Biomarkers of Allostatic Load: the Phenomenology and Association with Pain-related and Psychosocial Outcomes in Youth with Chronic Pain
• Anne O’Donnell, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Genetics — Evaluating How the Altered Epigenetic Landscape in Mendelian Chromatin Disorders Contributes to Phenotype
• Jodie Ouahed, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition — Role of Interferon Lambda Signalling in Mucosal Homeostasis and Infantile-Onset Inflammatory Bowel Disease
• Maxim Pimkin, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Divergent Core Transcriptional Circuities Highlight Context-Specific Vulnerabilities in AML
• Craig Platt, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology — Mechanisms of the COPI Complex in Mediating Humoral Immunity and Viral Control
• Stephanie Roberts, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Endocrinology; Elucidating the Mechanism of Mkrn3 Action through Overexpression in the Mouse Hypthalamus: a Key Player of Pubertal Timing in Children
• Christopher Yuskaitis, MD, PhD; Instructor in Neurology — The Critical Role of Nutrient Sensing in the Developing Brain: Implications for Epileptogenesis and Brain Malformations

2017

• Thea Brennan-Krohn, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases — Antimicrobial Synergy for Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
• Juan Manuel Leyva Castillo, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology — Regulation of Skin-derived Dendritic Cell Functions by Innate IL-4
• Peter Davis, MD; Instructor in Neurology — Brain Network Biomarkers of Epilepsy Development in Tuberous Sclerosis Complex
• Angela Feraco, MD, MMSc; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — The Day 100 Talk: A Pilot Feasibility Study of a Communication Intervention Targeting the Early Treatment Period in Pediatric Oncology
• Katie Greenzang, MD, EdM; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Parental Worries and Consideration of Late Effects of Pediatric Cancer Treatment
• Pui Lee, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Immunology — Mechanism of Inflammation in Systemic Vasculitis Caused by Deficiency of Adenosine Deaminase 2
• Yang Li, PhD; Instructor in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, PCMM — Elucidating the Mechanisms of NLRP3 Inflammsome Assembly and Regulation
• Yangming Ou, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine — Developing Neonatal Brain Atlases to Standardize MRI Interpretation of Neonatal Brain Injury
• R. Grant Rowe, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Modeling Splicing Factor Mutations in Myelodysplastic Syndrome Using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
• Ye Sun, MD, PhD; Instructor in Ophthalmology — A Novel Inflammatory Regulator Controls Retinopathy of Prematurity
• Jay Thiagarajah, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition — The Regulation of Aquaporin-3 Signaling in the Colonic Epithelium
• Jorge Velarde, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases — Structure and Function Studies of LL-37 Binding to CsrS of Group A Streptococcus
• Jennifer Yeh, PhD; Member of the Faculty (pending appointment Assistant Professor of Pediatrics), General Pediatrics — Evaluating the Future Impact of Precision Medicine in Pediatric Oncology

2016

• Vassilios Bezzerides, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Cardiology — Use of iPSCs and Optogenetics for Risk Stratification of Patients with CPVT
• Catherine Brownstein, MPH, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Genetics — Genetic Basis of Rare Mendelian Disorders with Application to Sudden Unexplained Death in Pediatrics and Interstitial Cystitis
• Grace Chan, MD, MPH, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics,* Medicine Critical Care — Fetal Stress and Preterm Birth in Tanzania
• Julia Chu, MD, MPH; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Development of a Gene Therapy Model for DOCK8 Deficiency
• Natalie Collins, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Molecular Mechanisms of Immune Evasion
• Andrew Hong, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Elucidating Mechanisms Driving Renal Carcinomas to Deliver a Rational Approach to Cancer Directed Therapy
• Alisa Khan, MD, MPH; Instructor in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics — FACES—Family Activation and Communication around Errors and Safety
• Ji Miao, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics,* Endocrinology — Targeting Nuclear Receptor Co-Regulator for the Treatment of Metabolic Disorders
• Sang Won Park, PhD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Endocrinology — BRD7’s Role in the Development of Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
• Gayle Pouliot, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Investigating the Fanconi/BRCA Pathway in T-ALL
• Sari Reisner, ScD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics — Advancing US Transgender Health Research
• Lauren Wisk, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine — Building an Empirically-Derived Screen to Detect Vulnerability to High Health Care Burden for Youth with Chronic Medical Conditions

* — promoted to Assistant Professor of Pediatrics 3/1/16

2015

• David Bickham, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine — Investigating How Adolescents Use Electronic Media and Communication Technologies as a Strategy for Coping with Symptoms of Depression
• Heon Yung Gee, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Nephrology — Mutations in FAT1 Cause a Glomerotubular Nephropathy
• Rachael Grace, MD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Biomarkers of Clinical Severity and Treatment Response in Pyuvate Kinase Deficiency
• Junne Kamihara, MD, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Understanding the Genetic Predisposition of Pediatric Thyroid Cancer
• Kristen Leeman, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Newborn Medicine — Regulation of Lung Stem Cell Differentiation in Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
• Enid Martinez, MD; Instructor in Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine (Critical Care Medicine) — Optimizing Measures of Gastric Emptying in Mechanically Ventilated Children
• Maitreyi Mazumdar, MD, MPH; Assistant Professor of Neurology — Why Does Environmental Arsenic Disease Decrease the Effectiveness of Folic Acid in Neural Tube Defect Prevention? Investigating Gene-Environment Interaction
• Yana Pikman, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Hematology-Oncology — Targeting Mitochondrial One-Carbon Folate Metabolism for Novel Acute Myeloid Leukemia Therapy
• Camilla Richmond, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, GI-Nutrition — The Regenerative Role of Intestinal Stem Cells in Inflammation
• Ruobing Wang, MD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Pulmonary Medicine — Targeting the Complement Anaphylatoxin C5a Receptor in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Pneumonia
• Fan Zhang, PhD; Instructor in Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases; Multiple Antigen Presenting System for Eliciting Optimal B- and T-cell Immunity Against Staphylococcus Aureus
• Special Recognition: Jonathan Mansbach, MD; Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine and General Pediatrics — Prospective Study of the Airway Microbiota in Technology Dependent Children Before, During, and After Lower Respiratory Infection

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