{"id":34,"date":"2020-04-21T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T17:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:17:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T19:17:02","slug":"lab-members","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/lab-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab Members"},"content":{"rendered":"

Principal Inv<\/strong>estigator<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Christopher Heaphy, PhD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Associate Professor<\/span><\/p>\n

Director, Translational Research Laboratory & Biospecimen Repository<\/span><\/p>\n

Section of Hematology & Medical Oncology<\/span><\/p>\n

Departments of Medicine and Pathology & Laboratory Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

Boston Medical Center\/<\/span>Boston University Chobanian &\u00a0Avedisian School of Medicine<\/span><\/p>\n

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Residents<\/h3>\n

Rishi Makkar, MD <\/strong>(2nd year; Internal Medicine)<\/p>\n

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Medical Students<\/h3>\n

Lin Chen\u00a0<\/strong>(3rd year)<\/p>\n

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Joshua Choi<\/strong> (2nd year)<\/p>\n

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Carlo Lanza<\/strong> (1st year)<\/p>\n

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Master’s Students<\/h3>\n

Anna Southworth<\/strong> (MS in Pathology Laboratory Sciences)<\/p>\n

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Vignesh Lalgudi<\/strong> (MS in Medical Sciences)<\/p>\n

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Hillary Tran<\/strong> (MS in Medical Sciences)<\/p>\n

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Undergraduate Researchers<\/h3>\n

Chantelle Tadros<\/strong> (Major: Biology, Pre-Medical Track)<\/p>\n

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Sophie Kempe<\/strong> (Major: Biology)<\/p>\n

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Fernanda Sandoval Vargas<\/strong> (Major: Human Physiology)<\/p>\n

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Post-Bac Researcher<\/h3>\n

Amy Luo<\/strong> (B.S. in Human Physiology)<\/p>\n

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Alumni<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Jessica Proctor<\/strong> (2024-2026) – Undergraduate researcher<\/span><\/p>\n

Joakin Mori, PhD<\/strong> (2021-2026) – Postdoctoral associate<\/p>\n

Shugo Muratani\u00a0<\/strong>(2024-2026) – Research staff<\/p>\n

Sin-Han (Henry) Chen<\/strong> (2025-2026) – Research internship<\/p>\n

Miranda Galvan\u00a0<\/strong>(2024-2025) – Undergraduate researcher<\/span><\/p>\n

Kenel Dufort <\/strong>(2024) – Research staff<\/span><\/p>\n

Koushik Gadhachanda<\/strong> (2023-2024) – Undergraduate researcher<\/span><\/p>\n

Natalia Feced Garcia <\/strong>(2023) – Undergraduate researcher<\/p>\n

Alexis Kiyanda\u00a0<\/strong>(summer 2022) – Undergraduate student in the BU STaRS Program<\/p>\n

Marija Stojanova\u00a0<\/strong>(2020-2022) – Lab Manager; Research staff<\/p>\n

Griffin Salus<\/strong> (2021-2022) – Undergraduate researcher; MA in Biotechnology<\/p>\n

Elizabeth Nelson<\/strong> (2020-2022) – Undergraduate researcher & BU STaRS Program<\/p>\n

Rachel Choate<\/strong> (summer 2020) – Undergraduate student in the BU STaRS Program<\/p>\n

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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 &\u00a0Avedisian School of Medicine Residents Rishi Makkar, MD (2nd year; Internal Medicine) Medical Students Lin Chen\u00a0(3rd year) Joshua Choi (2nd year) Carlo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17343,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":50,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/heaphylab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}