Team Members
Internal collaborators
Postdocs and graduates from the Mechanobiology Lab
Postdoc
Sina Kheiri
Vascularized Brain Organoids
Research Scientist (Alumnus)
Mark F.. Coughlin
Vascularized Liver Organoids
Currently, Lecturer on Engineering Design at Harvard University.
Postdoc
Mouhita Humayun
Vascularized Liver Organoids
Postdoc (Alumnus)
Shun Zhang
Vascularized Liver Organoids
Currently, principal investigator at the State Key Lab of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, CAS.
Postdoc
Xun Wang
Alzheimer's Disease
External Collaborators
Previous and current collaborators
Tatsuya Osaki
Research Scientist
Mriganka Sur Lab at MIT.
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Neurological Disease Model
Ahmed Radwan
Postdoc
Ron Weiss Lab at MIT.
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Liver
Brandon Sit
Postdoc
Rebecca Lamason Lab at MIT
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Infectious Diseases
F. Stephen Hodi
Professor of Medicine at DFCI
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
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Patient-Endothelial cells
Andrew Khalil
Postdoc
Rudolf Jaenisch Lab (MIT);
David Mooney Lab (Harvard and the Wyss Institute).
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Stem Cell
Lei Wang
Assistant Professor at NEU
Previous postdoc from Ron Weiss Lab at MIT.
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Synthetic Biology
Corey Stevens
Postdoc
Angela Belcher Lab at MIT
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​Neutrophil, Mucus
Chenguang Xu
Associate Professor
Southern Medical University, China
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CAR-T
Whitney Henry
Assistant Professor at MIT
Postdoc at Robert Weinberg Lab at MIT
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​Metastasis
Se Hoon Choi, Ph.D
Assistant Professor at MGH
Mass General Research Institute
Harvard Medical School
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Alzheimer’s Disease
Sambeeta Das
Assistant Professor at UD
University of Delaware
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Nano Robotics​
Technical Support
-Immortalized Cells shared with
Richard Siow (King's College London), Ryuji Morizane (Harvard), Kaiming Ye (Binghamton University), Steven George (UC Davis), Sara Vasconcelos (University of Toronto), Shelly Peyton (UMASS), Pulin Li (MIT), Yuguo Lei (Pennsylvania State), Krishnendu (Krish) Roy (Georgia Tech and Emory), Moretti Matteo (Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Switzerland), Yunzhi Peter Yang (Stanford), Lance L. Munn (Mass General Hospital), ​Kip Conner (Amgen), Loan Miller (Abbvie), Ritu Raman (MIT), Lohitash Karumbaiah (UGA), Sangyoon Han (Michigan Tech), etc.
-Protocols shared with
Robert Mertens (Universitätsmedizin Berlin), Pilar de la Puente (Sanford Research), Erika Moore (U of Maryland), Marco Rasponi (Politecnico di Milano), Chao Li (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sei Hien Lim (Aim Biotech), Yunzhi Peter Yang (Stanford), etc.
Mentors
Grateful to have such great mentors!
Alumni
-Undergraduate Students
Amy Zhong (MIT, 2021), Vernon Lin (MIT, 2024),
-Graduate Students
Elizabeth Wheeler (Imperial College London, 2022), Tiankun Liu (Tsinghua University, 2019)