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 _______________ Email: william_freed-pastor@dfci.harvard.edu
Marta Casarrubios, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow _______________ 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 _______________ 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 _______________ 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 _______________ 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 _______________ Email: sudarsanab_addepalli@dfci.harvard.edu
Sudarsana graduated from the University of Cincinnati.
Xilin Wang Research Technician _______________ 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.
Colin Willoughby _______________ 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!