Current Lab Members
Daniel S. Roh, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Roh is a board-certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Boston Medical Center and Assistant Professor of Surgery at Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine. He serves as Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Surgery and Deputy Chief of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, where he leads strategic growth in translational research and surgical innovation.
He completed his MD–PhD training through the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) at the University of Pittsburgh and subsequently trained in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Roh’s clinical practice focuses on complex wound reconstruction, cancer reconstruction, aesthetic surgery, and pathological scarring. These clinical challenges directly inform his laboratory’s research program, which investigates cellular senescence, aging biology, and mechanisms of repair failure in acute and chronic wounds.
https://profiles.bu.edu/Daniel.Roh
Maria Shvedova, MD, PhD
Research Scientist
Dr. Shvedova completed surgical residency training and postdoctoral research in aging and wound biology. She has received national presentation awards from the Wound Healing Society and has published extensively in regenerative biology and translational surgery . Her work focuses on defining age-associated alterations in wound-induced senescence and therapeutic targeting strategies.
Qiaoling Wang, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Wang earned her MD and PhD in Cell Biology from Peking Union Medical College. Her doctoral work defined mechanisms of mesenchymal stem cell senescence and mitochondrial metabolism, including first-author publications on cAMP-mediated aging pathways . In the Roh Lab, she investigates senescent cell heterogeneity and its functional role in wound repair.
Rayna Magesh, MS
Medical Student, LEADS Fellow
Rayna Magesh holds an MS in Medical Sciences from Boston University and previously worked at UMass Chan Medical School studying chromosomal instability and metabolic dependencies in cancer. She has co-authored publications in Nature Genetics, Cell, and Genes & Development . In the Roh Lab, she contributes expertise in genomics, multi-omics analysis, and R-based data science to wound biology projects.
Sydni Britton
Medical Student, LEADS Fellow
Sydni focuses on fibroblast senescence and extracellular matrix remodeling in pathological scarring. Her research integrates single-cell analysis and translational modeling to better understand keloid and hypertrophic scar biology.
Kylie Tang
Medical Student, LEADS Fellow
Kylie investigates the impact of senolytic therapies on acute wound healing. She combines computational analysis with experimental models to define age-dependent changes in regenerative capacity.
Rachel Boudreau
Laboratory Technician
Rachel is a neuroscience graduate of St. Lawrence University with extensive training in rodent models, histology, and confocal microscopy. She leads murine wound models, tissue processing, and molecular assays, ensuring experimental rigor and continuity across aging and senescence studies.
Alumni
- Rex Rajkumar, PhD
- Grace Shin, BS
- Jake Crouch, BS, MS
- Sami Gritli, MD, PhD
- Joy Ha, BA
- Jannat Dhillon, BA
- Minsung Cho
- Chenyu Chu, DMD, PhD
- Magda Abdelkader