Kirchhausen Group 2023

Principal Investigator

TK

Tomas Kirchhausen, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator
Springer Family Professor of Pediatrics
Professor of Cell Biology
Harvard Medical School
Senior Investigator
Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Boston Children’s Hospital

Staff

Eric Marino photo

Eric Marino

Imaging Specialist
Warren Alpert Building, Room 133D
Eric.Marino [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Gustavo Scanavachi Moreira Campos

Gustavo Scanavachi Moreira Campos, Ph.D.

Senior Staff Scientist, Research Associate in Pediatrics
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
617.713.8894
scanavachi [at] tklab.hms.harvard.edu
Elliott Somerville Photo

Elliott Somerville, M.S., , B.S.

Lead Research Technologist
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
617.713.8684
Elliott.Somerville [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Catherine Swan

Catherine Swan

Administrative Assistant
Warren Alpert Building, Room 133A
617.713.8889
Catherine.Swan [at] childrens.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellows

Beren Aylan photo

Beren Aylan, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Warren Alpert Building, Room 140
617.713.8684
Beren.Aylan [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Alex Kreutzberger

Alex Kreutzberger

Instructor in Pediatrics
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
617.713.8684
Alex.Kreutzberger [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Anand Saminathan

Anand Saminathan, Ph.D., , M.S.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Warren Alpert Building, Room 140
617.713.8684
Anand.Saminathan [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Anwesha Sanyal

Anwesha Sanyal, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
617.713.8684
Anwesha.Sanyal [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Ewa Sitarska

Ewa Sitarska, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
617.713.8684
sitarska [at] tklab.hms.harvard.edu

Students

Adrian Coscia Photo

Adrian Coscia, M.S., , B.S.

Graduate Student
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
617.713.8684
Adrian.Coscia [at] childrens.harvard.edu
Austin Wang

Austin Wang

Undergraduate Student
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
austinwang [at] college.harvard.edu
Bryan Zuniga

Bryan Zuniga, B.S.

Graduate Student
Warren Alpert Building, Room 136
Bryan_zuniga [at] g.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholars

Nikos Hatzakis

Nikos Hatzakis, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor
hatzakis [at] nano.ku.dk
Fiorenza Sella photo

Fiorenza Sella, M.S.

Graduate Student
Warren Alpert Building, Room 138
Fiorenza.Sella [at] childrens.harvard.edu

Recent Alumni


Adam Ingemansson photo

Adam Ingemansson, B.S.

Graduation Year -
(Undergraduate Student)
Present Position:
Arkash Jain

Arkash Jain, M.S., , B.S.

Graduation Year -
(Software Engineer)
Present Position:

Machine Learning Engineer at Benmore Technologies / Dakota Systems

Iris Rapoport

Iris Rapoport, Ph.D.

Graduation Year -
(Research Associate)
Present Position:
Patrick Stock

Patrick Stock, M.S.

Graduation Year -
(Software Engineer)
Present Position:
Nicholas Chow

Nicholas Chow, B.S.

Graduation Year -
(Research Assistant)
Present Position:
Alex Lavaee

Alex Lavaee

Graduation Year -
(Undergraduate Student)
Present Position:

Graduated Boston University May 2025

Ricardo Bango Da Cunha Correia

Ricardo Bango Da Cunha Correia, Ph.D.

Graduation Year -
(Senior Staff Scientist, Research Associate in Pediatrics)
Present Position:

Imaging manager/director, HSPH - BSL3 & Research Associate, Harvard School of Public Health

Liam Thievery

Liam Theveny, M.S.

Graduation Year -
(Graduate Student)
Present Position:

Graduate Student, HMS

Benjamin Gallusser

Benjamin Gallusser, M.S.

Graduation Year -
(Graduate Student)
Present Position:

Computer Scientist, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, San Francisco Bay Area

Daanyal Saeed

Daanyal Saeed

Graduation Year -
(Undergraduate Student)
Present Position:

Berkeley University of California

Athul Nair Photo

Athul Nair

Graduation Year -
(Undergraduate Student)
Present Position:

Student, University of Texas

Akhil Nair

Akhil Nair

Graduation Year -
(Undergraduate Student)
Present Position:

Student, Vanderbilt University

Sander Cosica

Sander Coscia

Graduation Year -
(Undergraduate Student)
Present Position:

Current WPI Student

Jacob Kaestel-Hansen

Jacob Kaestel-Hansen, Ph.D.

Graduation Year -
(Postdoctoral Fellow)
Present Position:

MIT Fellow, Cambridge, MA

Giuseppe Di Caprio

Giuseppe Di Caprio, Ph.D.

Graduation Year -
(Instructor in Pediatrics)
Present Position:

Associate Professor (senior lecturer), Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Zhenyu Li

Zhenyu Li, M.S.

Graduation Year -
(Graduate Student)
Present Position:

HMS Virology G1 Program

Philip Mark Lund

Philip Mark Lund

Graduation Year -
(Graduate Student)
Present Position:

Ph.D. student

Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark

Catherine Doyle photo

Catherine Doyle, M.S., , B.S.

Graduation Year -
(Graduate Student)
Present Position:

University of Virginia

Tegy Vadakkan Picture

Tegy Vadakkan, Ph.D.

Graduation Year -
(Research Associate)
Present Position:

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

George Ohashi

George Ohashi, B.S.

Graduation Year -
(Research Assistant)
Present Position:

Neural Magic, Somerville MA

Jesse Pyle

Jesse Pyle, M.S.

Graduation Year -
(Graduate Student)
Present Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow, Sabeti Lab, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

David Hoytema van Konijnenburg

David Hoytema van Konijnenburg, Ph.D., , M.D.

Graduation Year -
(Postdoctoral Fellow)
Present Position:

Clinical Fellow, Allergy and Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital