Lab Members

Principal Investigator

Christopher Heaphy, PhD

Associate Professor

Director, Translational Research Laboratory & Biospecimen Repository

Section of Hematology & Medical Oncology

Departments of Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Boston Medical Center/Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Postdoctoral Fellows

Joakin Mori, PhD

Residents

Rishi Makkar, MD (2nd year; Internal Medicine)

Medical Students

Lin Chen (3rd year)

Joshua Choi (2nd year)

Carlo Lanza (1st year)

Research Staff

Shugo Muratani, MS

Master’s Students

Anna Southworth (MS in Pathology Laboratory Sciences)

Undergraduate Researchers

Jessica Proctor (Major: Human Physiology)

Chantelle Tadros (Major: Biology, Pre-Medical Track)

Sophie Kempe (Major: Biology)

Alumni

Miranda Galvan (2024-2025) – Undergraduate researcher

Kenel Dufort (2024) – Research staff

Koushik Gadhachanda (2023-2024) – Undergraduate researcher

Natalia Feced Garcia (2023) – Undergraduate researcher

Alexis Kiyanda (summer 2022) – Undergraduate student in the BU STaRS Program

Marija Stojanova (2020-2022) – Lab Manager; Research staff

Griffin Salus (2021-2022) – Undergraduate researcher; MA in Biotechnology

Elizabeth Nelson (2020-2022) – Undergraduate researcher & BU STaRS Program

Rachel Choate (summer 2020) – Undergraduate student in the BU STaRS Program