Polyak Lab Alumni

Laura Stevens, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2017-2023)
Currently: Senior Scientist,
AstraZeneca, Cambridge, MA

Callahan Wilde
Lab Technician (2020-2022)

Kodie Garza
Lab Technician (2021-2022)
Currently: Clinical Care Technician, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Masa Aleckovic, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2021)
Currently: Senior Scientist II, Shasqi, San Francisco, CA
​Bojana Jovanovic, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2021)
Anne Trinh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2016 - 2020)
Currently: Garvan Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia
Bethlehem Lulseged
Undergraduate Student (2018-2020)
​Frank He, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2018 - 2019)
Currently: Field Application Scientist, Abcam
Boston, MA
​Nicholas Harper
Bioinformatician (2017 - 2019)
Currently: PhD Student, U. Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
Lina Ding, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 - 2018)
Currently: Principal Scientist, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cambridge, MA
Natalie Kingston
Lab Technician (2016-2018)
Currently: MD/PhD Student, University of Washington St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
Anthony Tran
Visiting Medical Student (2016)
Currently: Rehabilitation Medicine Resident, Columbia University, New York, NY
Ashim Subedee, PhD
Graduate Student (2010 - 2015)
Currently: Academic Innovation Lead, NIH SEED, Rockville, MD
Vanessa Almendro, PhD
Pediatric Visiting Scientist (2008 - 2014)
Currently: Vice President,  Science and Technology, Danaher Corporation, Boston, MA
Mattia Zucca, PhD
Visiting Master's Student (2012 - 2013)
Currently: Medical Marketing & Communications Manager, MCO, Florence, Italy
Shoji Yamamoto, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2010-2012)
Currently: Senior Director, Oncology Labs, Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
Zhenhua (Jeremy) Wu, PhD
Bioinformatics Postdoc (2009-2012)
Currently: Investigator II at H3 Biomedicine
​Cambridge, MA
​Kristopher Carver, PhD, MBA
Postdoctoral Fellow (2009-2010)
Currently: New Business Development - Peripheral Interventions, Boston Scientific,
St. Paul, MN
Noga Bloushtain-Qimron, MSc
Technician and Graduate Student (2004-2009)
Currently: SI&A Senior Country Approval Specialist Israel, EMEA Site Intelligence and Activation, Tel Aviv, Israel
Maxim Tomashevsky
Undergraduate Student (2008)
Currently: Director, Financeit, Ottawa, Canada
Jun Yao, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2008)
Currently: Assistant Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Ayten Kandilci, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2006)
Currently: Associate Professor, Gebze Technical University, Gebze, Turkey
Takaaki Imamura, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2005)
​Minna Allinen, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2004)
Currently
Head of Integrated Hospital Care at Novartis Finland
​Helinski, Finland
Ana Nunes (Tablante), BA
Undergraduate Student (2002)
Currently: Senior Global Development Medical Director, AstraZeneca, Bethesda, MD
Charlotta Enerback, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2001)
Currently: Professor of Dermatology, University of Linköping, Linköping, Sweden

Pierre Foidart, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2023)
Currently: Clinical and Postdoctoral fellow, University of Liège, Belgium

​​Carlos Gil Del Alcazar, PhD
​Postdoctoral Fellow (2015-2021)
Currently: Principal Scientist I, Lab Head, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Julieann Puleo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
Currently: Regional Associate Director, US Oncology Medical Affairs Strategy, Merck, Philadelphia, PA
Katherine Murphy
Research Assistant (2018 - 2020)
Currently: Research Assistant, U.Massachusetts, Worcester, MA
Stephanie Zhao
Undergraduate Student (2018-2020)
Shaokun Shu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2011 - 2019)
Currently: Assistant Professor, Peking University, Beijing, China
Felipe Flores
Undergraduate Student (2016 - 2019)
Michalina Janiszewska, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2012 - 2018)
Currently: Assistant Professor, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL
Muhammed Ekram, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013-2017)
Currently: Cancer Geneticist, WuXi NextCODE, Cambridge, MA
​Sung Jin Huh, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2009 - 2015)
Currently: Associate Director, Translational Medicine, Alkerme, Waltham, MA
​Andriy Marusyk, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2008 - 2015)
Currently: Associate Member, Moffitt Cancer Center
​Tampa, FL
Elina Khasanova, MD
Visiting Scientist - Fullbright (2014)
Currently: Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellow at Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
Andrew Place, MD, PhD
Pediatric Oncology Fellow (2010-2012)
Currently: Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Co-Director, Hematologic Malignancy Center; Chief Medical Officer, Institutional Centers for Clinical and Translational Research; Associate Director, Developmental Therapeutics; Senior Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
​Boston, MA
Sibgat Choudhury, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2012)
Currently: Director, Clinical Biomarker Development, Acrivon Theraputics, Inc., Cambridge, MA
​Reo Maruyama, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2007-2011)
Currently: Attending Physician, Ushiku Aiwa General Hospital, Ushiku, Ibaraki, Chief of Division of Cancer Biology, Cancer Institute of Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo, Japan
Lauren L. Marrotta, PhD
Graduate Student (2005 - 2010)
​Michail Shipitsin, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2004-2010)
Currently: Director, Head of Biomarker Development, Acrivon Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
​Jee Hyun Kim, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2008-2009)
Currently: Professor, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Chief, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology, Bundang Hospital
Seoul, Korea
So Yeon Park, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2007-2008)
Currently
Professor of Pathology, Seoul National University College of Medicine
​Seoul, Korea
Min Hu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2008)
Currently
Vice President; Discovery Biology, Small Molecules & Translational Medicine, Shanghai HengRui Pharmaceutical Co.
​Shanghai, China
Ian Krop, MD, PhD
Oncology Fellow (2000-2006)
Currently: Associate Professor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
​Boston, MA
Dale Porter, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2000-2004)
Currently: Vice President and Head of Biology, Cedilla Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
​Jaana Lahti-Domenici, MSc
Technician (2001-2003)
Currently:Technician, Agendia, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Benedetto DiCiaccio, PhD
PhD student (2018-2024)
Currently: Life Science Specialist, L.E.K. Consulting, Boston, MA

Xiao-Yun (Rere) Huang, B.S.
Lab Technician (2022-2024)
Currently: PhD student, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Carolyn DePinho
Undergraduate Student (2022-2023)
Currently: Bernard College, New York, NY

Anushree Gulvady, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2019-2021)
Currently: Scientific Analyst at Morrison & Foerster LLP, New York, NY
​Jayati Anand
Lab Technician (2020-2021)
Alanna Pyke
Post-baccalaureate in Research Scholar Initiative at Harvard University
Currently: PhD Student, Stanford University, Standford, CA
​Yawei (Jenn) Ge,
MDPhD student (2015 - 2019)
Currently: Resident in Internal Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Kunihiko Hinohara, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2014 - 2019)
Currently: Designated Associate Professor, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan
Ethan Krop
High School Student and Research Assistant (2018-2019)
​Robert Witwicki, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 - 2018)
Currently: Research Scientist, The Scripps Research Institute, Jupiter, FL
Doris Tabassum, PhD
Graduate Student (2011 - 2016)
Currently: Academic Editor at Research Square, Boston, MA
Francisco De Beca, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2013 - 2015)
Currently: Medical Director, Clinical Development, Seagen, Bothell, Wa
Ying Su, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2009 - 2014)
Currently: Executive Medical Director, Clinical Development, Codiak Biosciences
Cambridge, MA
Taku Yoshida, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2010-2012)
Currently: Vice President, Immuno - Oncology Research, Astellas Pharma Inc.
​Ibaraki, Japan
Filipe Martins, MD
Visiting Scientist (2009-2012)
Currently: Academic clinical fellow, Cambridge University Hospitals and Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Shinji Takagi, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2010-2011)
Currently: Principal Scientist, Oncology Science Unit, MSD K.K., Tokyo, Japan
Hege Russness, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2010-2011)
Currently: Group leader, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
David Jee
Undergraduate Student and Research Assistant (2010-2011)
Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Hee Jung Kim, MD, PhD
Visiting Scientist (2008-2010)
Currently: Professor of Pathology, MizMedi Hospital, Seoul, Korea
Laura Mulvey
Undergraduate Student 
​(2004-2008)
Currently: Attending Physician, Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center
Brooklyn, NY
Guillermo Peluffo, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2011 - 2019)
​Daniel Carrasco, BSc.
Research Technician (2004-2007)
Currently: Medical student, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL
Michele Taylor-Parker, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2004)
Currently: Program Director, Sciences and Biotechnology, Berkeley, CA
Ana Merlos-Suarez, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (2001-2002)
Currently: Strategic Projects and Philanthropy Officer, Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Barcelona
Barcelona, Spain
Selim Nasser, MD
Pathology Fellow (1999-2002)
Currently
Chair, Dept. of Pathology, University of Beirut
​Beirut, Lebanon
Pankaj Seth, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow (1999-2002)
Currently: Scientific Director, The Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson