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: [email protected]
Gurcan Gunaydin, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: [email protected]
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. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Gurcan is leading efforts to accelerate effective TCR engineered T cells for pancreas cancer.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Email: [email protected]
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. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Gurcan is leading efforts to accelerate effective TCR engineered T cells for pancreas cancer.
Alex Blain, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Alex completed her PhD at Newcastle University, where she studied the genomics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Alex is leading efforts to leverage cutting edge single-cell and spatial-omic technologies to dissect the pancreatic tumor-immune microenvironment.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Alex completed her PhD at Newcastle University, where she studied the genomics of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Alex is leading efforts to leverage cutting edge single-cell and spatial-omic technologies to dissect the pancreatic tumor-immune microenvironment.
Mike Wang, MD, MHS
Medical Oncology Fellow; Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Mike is a medical oncology fellow in the joint Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center program. Mike completed his MD and MHS at Yale School of Medicine before completing his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Mike is studying the antigen landscape of pancreatic cancer.
Medical Oncology Fellow; Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Mike is a medical oncology fellow in the joint Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center program. Mike completed his MD and MHS at Yale School of Medicine before completing his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Mike is studying the antigen landscape of pancreatic cancer.
Rishi Surana, MD, PhD
Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Rishi is a medical oncologist in the DFCI Gastrointestinal Cancer Center and is also an active member of the Immune Effector Cell (IEC) program within Dana-Farber, working to bring novel cellular therapies to patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Rishi received his MD/PhD from Georgetown University prior to completing internal medicine residency at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He then completed his hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center prior to joining the faculty at DFCI. Rishi is actively working to bring many of the discoveries from the Freed-Pastor laboratory to the clinic.
Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
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Rishi is a medical oncologist in the DFCI Gastrointestinal Cancer Center and is also an active member of the Immune Effector Cell (IEC) program within Dana-Farber, working to bring novel cellular therapies to patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Rishi received his MD/PhD from Georgetown University prior to completing internal medicine residency at Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). He then completed his hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center prior to joining the faculty at DFCI. Rishi is actively working to bring many of the discoveries from the Freed-Pastor laboratory to the clinic.
Zachary Kulstad
Senior Research Technician (affiliated member)
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Zach graduated from Carleton College and previously worked as a research technician in the Jacks Lab, Koch Institute at MIT.
Congratulations to Zach -- he is now pursuing an MD/PhD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons!!
Senior Research Technician (affiliated member)
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Zach graduated from Carleton College and previously worked as a research technician in the Jacks Lab, Koch Institute at MIT.
Congratulations to Zach -- he is now pursuing an MD/PhD at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons!!
Sudarsana Addepalli
Research Technician
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Sudarsana graduated from the University of Cincinnati.
Research Technician
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Sudarsana graduated from the University of Cincinnati.
Xilin Wang
Research Technician
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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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Xilin graduated from Tufts University. He previously worked as an undergraduate research assistant at Tufts Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine.
Rafa van den Brink, MBT
Research Technician
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Rafa completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Utrecht before completing a Master of Biotechnology (MBT) with a specialization in Cellular and Medical Biotechnology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Research Technician
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Rafa completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Utrecht before completing a Master of Biotechnology (MBT) with a specialization in Cellular and Medical Biotechnology at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Alumni
Marta Casarrubios, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Marta completed her PhD in Madrid, Spain, where she studied the T-cell receptor repertoire as a biomarker of response to immunotherapy in lung cancer. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Marta contributed to multiple projects exploring the antigen landscape of pancreatic cancer.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
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Marta completed her PhD in Madrid, Spain, where she studied the T-cell receptor repertoire as a biomarker of response to immunotherapy in lung cancer. In the Freed-Pastor laboratory, Marta contributed to multiple projects exploring the antigen landscape of pancreatic cancer.
Colin Willoughby
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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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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!
Zoe Jackson
Visiting Undergraduate Student
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Zoe was a member of the 2024 Harvard Immunology Summer Undergraduate Program, during which time she worked in the Freed-Pastor laboratory. She is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan. Best of luck with your next endeavors Zoe!
Visiting Undergraduate Student
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Zoe was a member of the 2024 Harvard Immunology Summer Undergraduate Program, during which time she worked in the Freed-Pastor laboratory. She is an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan. Best of luck with your next endeavors Zoe!