Freed-Pastor Lab Team
Will Freed-Pastor, MD, PhD
Principal Investigator
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Division of Molecular and Cellular Oncology
Hale Family Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research
Associate Member, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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Email: william_freed-pastor@dfci.harvard.edu
Marta Casarrubios, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: marta_casarrubios@dfci.harvard.edu
Marta completed her PhD in Madrid, Spain, where studied the T-cell receptor repertoire as a biomarker of response to immunotherapy in lung cancer.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: marta_casarrubios@dfci.harvard.edu
Marta completed her PhD in Madrid, Spain, where studied the T-cell receptor repertoire as a biomarker of response to immunotherapy in lung cancer.
Gurcan Gunaydin, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: gurcan_gunaydin@dfci.harvard.edu
Gurcan completed his MD/PhD at Hacettepe University Cancer Institute in Ankara, Turkey, where he studied the interplay between the complex tumor microenvironment (TME) of breast cancer on the adaptive anti-tumor immune response.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: gurcan_gunaydin@dfci.harvard.edu
Gurcan completed his MD/PhD at Hacettepe University Cancer Institute in Ankara, Turkey, where he studied the interplay between the complex tumor microenvironment (TME) of breast cancer on the adaptive anti-tumor immune response.
Alex Blain, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: alex_blain@dfci.harvard.edu
Alex completed her PhD at Newcastle University, where she studied the genomics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: alex_blain@dfci.harvard.edu
Alex completed her PhD at Newcastle University, where she studied the genomics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Zachary Kulstad
Senior Research Technician
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Email: zacharyj_kulstad@dfci.harvard.edu
Zach graduated from Carleton College and previously worked as a research technician in the Jacks Lab, Koch Institute at MIT.
Senior Research Technician
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Email: zacharyj_kulstad@dfci.harvard.edu
Zach graduated from Carleton College and previously worked as a research technician in the Jacks Lab, Koch Institute at MIT.
Sudarsana Addepalli
Research Technician
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Email: sudarsanab_addepalli@dfci.harvard.edu
Sudarsana graduated from the University of Cincinnati.
Research Technician
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Email: sudarsanab_addepalli@dfci.harvard.edu
Sudarsana graduated from the University of Cincinnati.
Xilin Wang
Research Technician
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Email: xilin_wang@dfci.harvard.edu
Xilin graduated from Tufts University. He previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant at Tufts Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine.
Research Technician
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Email: xilin_wang@dfci.harvard.edu
Xilin graduated from Tufts University. He previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant at Tufts Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine.
Natalie Sheetz
Administrative Assistant
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Email: Natalie_Sheetz1@dfci.harvard.edu
Administrative Assistant
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Email: Natalie_Sheetz1@dfci.harvard.edu
Theresa Delucia
Grants Administrator
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Email: theresa_delucia@dfci.harvard.edu
Theresa Delucia
Grants Administrator
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Email: theresa_delucia@dfci.harvard.edu
Alumni
Colin Willoughby
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Email: colinj_willoughby@dfci.harvard.edu
Colin was a member of the 2023 Harvard Immunology Summer Undergraduate Program during which time he worked in the Freed-Pastor laboratory at DFCI. He is undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. Good luck with your next endeavors Colin!
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Email: colinj_willoughby@dfci.harvard.edu
Colin was a member of the 2023 Harvard Immunology Summer Undergraduate Program during which time he worked in the Freed-Pastor laboratory at DFCI. He is undergraduate student at Washington University in St. Louis. Good luck with your next endeavors Colin!