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\"\"Konstantinos (Kostas) Alysandratos, MD, PhD\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine
\n<\/span>Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine
\n<\/span>Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
\n<\/span>Boston University and Boston Medical Center<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kostas is a principal investigator in the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center. He is also a Pulmonary\u00a0and Critical Care attending in the Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine Section of Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. Kostas obtained his\u00a0MD\u00a0and PhD degrees from the University of Athens in Greece.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>He completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, TX followed by fellowships in Sleep Medicine and Pulmonary\/Critical Care Medicine at Boston University. During his fellowship, he trained in Dr. Darrell Kotton\u2019s laboratory at a time when reliable preclinical human disease models of pulmonary fibrosis were lacking. This inspired him to develop an iPSC platform for modeling the alveolar epithelial cell dysfunction at the inception of pulmonary fibrosis. Closely partnered with his research interests, Kostas co-leads the interstitial lung disease clinical program at Boston Medical Center where he is an attending pulmonologist.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kathleen Mills, PhD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Postdoctoral Associate<\/p>\n

Email: kmills11@bu.edu<\/p>\n

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Kathleen is a postdoctoral associate in the Alysandratos lab, co-mentored by Darrell Kotton. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago. In 2025, she completed her PhD in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis from Cornell University\/Memorial Sloan Kettering, where she studied the pulmonary immune response to the opportunistic fungal pathogen <\/span>Aspergillus fumigatus<\/i>. Her interest in lung epithelial cells led her to the CReM, where she is\u00a0using patient-derived iPSC\u00a0models to study genetic determinants of pulmonary fibrosis, with a particular emphasis on telomere-related gene variants. Outside the lab, she enjoys hiking, cooking, classical music (playing and listening!), and exploring New England.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Vishal Gupta, PhD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post-Doctoral Fellow<\/p>\n

Email: vishalk@bu.edu<\/p>\n

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Vishal obtained his PhD degree in Bioengineering from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India, where he worked on engineering 3D hydrogel culture systems to model <\/span>Mycobacterium tuberculosis<\/i>\u00a0infection in vitro.\u00a0 He is excited by interdisciplinary research and is interested in modeling various interstitial lung diseases using iPSC-derived cell lineages to find new therapeutics. His non-academic interests include playing field hockey<\/span>, trekking,\u00a0<\/span>off-road biking, and exploring new cuisines.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jonathan Chang, MD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Post-Doctoral Fellow<\/p>\n

Email: jlchang@bu.edu<\/p>\n

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Jonathan attended medical school at Duke University School of Medicine and received his Masters in Public Health at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed an internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital, and is now a pulmonary fellow at Boston University \/ Boston Medical Center. He is interested in interstitial lung disease and pursuing a better understanding of the molecular mechanisms at play in fibrotic lung disease. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with family and traveling.<\/p>\n

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Porter Dooley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grad Student, PhD Candidate<\/p>\n

Email: porterd@bu.edu<\/p>\n

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Porter is PhD student in the department of Molecular and Translational Medicine. Before attending Boston University, she received her B.S. in Biology at Northeastern University. Her thesis work focuses on using patient-derived induced alveolar type 2 cells to study the convergence theory of pulmonary fibrosis. In her free time, Porter enjoys running, drawing and spending time with friends & family.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"Diya Gopal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lab Manager, Research Technician<\/p>\n

Email: dgopal1@bu.edu<\/p>\n

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Diya<\/span> received her BS In Cell and Molecular Biology from Northeastern University. She is now a lab manager\/technician in the Alysandratos Lab. She plans to pursue a MS in Biology during her time at Boston University. In her free time, <\/span>Diya<\/span>enjoys drawing, reading, and spending time with friends & family.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Angelica Lorenzo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lab Manager, Clinical Study Coordinator<\/p>\n

Email: alorenzo@bu.edu<\/p>\n

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Angelica is a Clinical Study Coordinator supporting the biobanking of patient samples and data from individuals with interstitial lung disease (ILD). She is originally from Chicago and received her BS in Biomedical Engineering from Yale University. She will attend medical school in the future. In her free time, Angelica enjoys playing music, traveling, and staying active.<\/p>\n

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Former lab members can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Konstantinos (Kostas) Alysandratos, MD, PhD\u00a0 Assistant Professor of Medicine Section of Pulmonary, Allergy, Sleep & Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) Boston University and Boston Medical Center   Kostas is a principal investigator in the Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) at Boston University and Boston Medical Center. He is also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22654,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"profiles.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/16\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/alysandratoslab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}