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Postdoctoral Fellows

Mary Banks, MD

Mary Banks, MD

Mary Banks earned her MD from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. Mary started her postdoctoral fellowship after completing…

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Ingrid Christophersen, MD, PhD

Ingrid Christophersen, MD, PhD

Ingrid Christophersen is originally from Norway. She earned her M.D. from Copenhagen University, Denmark in 2007, and subsequently did a…

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Sebastian Clauss, MD

Sebastian Clauss, MD

Sebastian Clauss obtained his medical degree in 2009 from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. After medical school he started…

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Elena Dolmatova, MD

Elena Dolmatova, MD

Elena Dolmatova obtained her medical degree in 2008from the Medical School of the Moscow State University, which is widely known for its…

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Polina Gross

Polina Gross

Postdoctoral Fellow

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Amelia Hall, PhD

Amelia Hall, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Amelia Weber Hall is a computational biology Research Fellow in Medical and Population Genetics She performs functional genomics experiments at the bench, in addition to data analysis for a number of projects.

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Alan Hanley, MD

Alan Hanley, MD

Alan attended medical school at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Following this, he trained in internal medicine and general cardiology.…

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William Hucker, MD, PhD

William Hucker, MD, PhD

Bill Hucker earned his MD and PhD degrees from Washington University in St. Louis in 2009. His PhD work focused…

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Shinwan Kany, MD

Shinwan Kany, MD

Shinwan focuses on the mechanism of atrial fibrillation and heart failure using machine learning and genetics.

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Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH

Steven A. Lubitz, MD, MPH

Steven joined Dr. Ellinors lab in2008 and is studying the genetic basis of atrial fibrillation in collaborationwith investigators from the…

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Vincenzo Macri, PhD

Vincenzo Macri, PhD

Vincenzo Macri joined the Ellinor lab in the summer of 2011.He completed his BSc (Kinesiology) and MSc from Simon Fraser…

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Saagar Mahida, MD, PhD

Saagar Mahida, MD, PhD

Saagar Mahida earned his medical degree in the United Kingdom in 2002 and completed his cardiology fellowship in 2010. He…

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Elena Mahmoudi, PhD

Elena Mahmoudi, PhD

Elena Mahmoudi's research has focused on pre-clinical cardiovascular diseases.

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Seiko Makino, PhD

Seiko Makino, PhD

Seiko worked in the lab as a research technician from 2005 to 2009. She received a Bachelor degree in agriculture…

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James Pirruccello, MD

James Pirruccello, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow

James Pirruccello, MD is currently focused on using machine learning to develop novel quantitative cardiovascular traits, and studying the genetic basis for those traits in order to better understand cardiovascular disease.

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Joel Rämö, MD, PhD

Joel Rämö, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Joel Rämö's research is focused on the genetic basis of aortic and other cardiovascular diseases in large-scale biobanks, supported by a Sigrid Jusélius Fellowship.

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Michiel Rienstra, MD, PhD

Michiel Rienstra, MD, PhD

In April 2009 Michiel joined the Ellinor lab as post-doctoral fellow, as part of his Cardiology training at the University…

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Moritz Sinner, MD, MPH

Moritz Sinner, MD, MPH

Moritz earned his MD from Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany and a Doctoral Degree in Medicine from the Technische University…

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Nathan R. Tucker, PhD

Nathan R. Tucker, PhD

Nathan Tucker obtained his Ph.D. from Washington State University in Cell Biology and Genetics. His research there focused on the…

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Abir Yamak, PhD

Abir Yamak, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Abir's work is currently focused on understanding the role of Asb2, a member of the ubiquitin proteasome system, in heart development as well as in the adult heart under stress conditions.

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Martin Zhu, MD, PhD

Martin Zhu, MD, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Martin is a Research Fellow currently studying novel genetic risk factors for coronary artery disease.

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Research Scientists

Bidur Bhandary, PhD

Bidur Bhandary, PhD

Staff Scientist

Bidur is focused on identifying and characterizing novel cardiovascular therapeutic targets in the partnership program between Broad Institute and Bayer Healthcare.

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Brandon Chalazan, MD

Brandon Chalazan, MD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Brandon is focused on using high throughput technology to uncover new candidate genes and potential novel therapeutics targets for atrial fibrillation.

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Seung Hoan Choi, PhD

Seung Hoan Choi, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Seung Hoan Choi's long-term interests are developing and applying novel statistical methods to elucidate the genetic basis of complex diseases.

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Caroline Herndon, Ph.D.

Caroline Herndon, Ph.D.

Caroline Herndon works as a research scientist in the Program in Medical and Population Genetics of the Broad Institute of…

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Bryan MacDonald, PhD

Bryan MacDonald, PhD

Staff Scientist

Bryan focused on applying his training and experience to identify and characterize new cardiovascular drug targets in collaboration with Bayer HealthCare.

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Jiangchuan Ye, MD, PhD

Jiangchuan Ye, MD, PhD

Jiangchuan focuses on identifying atrial fibrillation-related SNPs and studying the underlying mechanisms by the use of cell and animal models.

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Research Associates

Elizabeth Abraham, MS, BS

Elizabeth Abraham, MS, BS

Liz graduated from Boston University in 2014 with a B.S. in Human Physiology. She started out working in the lab…

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Ondine Atwa

Ondine Atwa

Ondine is from Cairo, Egypt. She studied in the UK and just graduated from a MSc by research in Biochemistry…

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Miranda Barraza, BS

Miranda Barraza, BS

Miranda worked in the Ellinor lab at MGH as a technician studying the molecular mechanisms of atrial.  She is currently…

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Kayla Bendinelli, BS

Kayla Bendinelli, BS

Research Associate

Kayla is excited to be learning new techniques about cardiovascular disease.

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Harshit Bhasin

Harshit Bhasin

My name is Harshit (Harsh for short!). I’m from New Delhi, India and moving to Broad after my Bachelors in…

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Caroline Bickerton

Caroline Bickerton

Caroline is excited to continue exploring the genetic mechanisms underlying disease pathology.

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Rebecca Cooper, BA

Rebecca Cooper, BA

Rebecca earned a Bachelor of Arts from Wellesley College with a major in biology and a minor in studio art.…

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Lizzie Lee, BS

Lizzie Lee, BS

Research Associate

Lizzie is currently involved in the differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells into cardiomyocytes for use in target validation and assay development.

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Julie Mina, BS

Julie Mina, BS

Julie graduated from Cornell University in January 2015 and spent last spring at Cornell working in a plant biology lab…

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Michael McLellan, BS

Michael McLellan, BS

Micheal graduated in 2012 with a Bachelors in chemistry and biotechnology from Assumption College in Worcester, MA. He began study…

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Rachel Moore, MD, PhD

Rachel Moore, MD, PhD

Rachel was the first member of the Ellinor lab. After working as a technician in the lab, she became an…

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Edwin Nam, BA

Edwin Nam, BA

Edwin earned a Bachelor of Arts from Swarthmore College with a major in biology. He joined the lab in 2004…

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Victoria Parsons, BS

Victoria Parsons, BS

Victoria graduated Lafayette College in Easton, PA in 2015 with a bachelors degree in Biology and joined the Ellinor lab…

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Nick Popp, BS

Nick Popp, BS

Research Associate

Nick joined the lab to work on genetic targets involved in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

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Eileen Tang, BS

Eileen Tang, BS

Research Associate

Eileen is a Research Associate in the Cardiovascular Disease Initiative at the Broad Institute. She received her B.S. from the…

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Justin Tedeschi, BS

Justin Tedeschi, BS

Justin focuses on using gene editing techniques in stem cell models to study genetic and molecular mechanisms of cardiac electrophysiology diseases.

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Therese Ton, BS

Therese Ton, BS

Research Associate

Therese conducted biochemistry research studying the co-evolution of the HIV envelope and broadly neutralizing antibodies to inform HIV-1 vaccine design.

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Michael Zhang, BS

Michael Zhang, BS

Mike joined Dr. Ellinor’s Lab at the end of 2008, after finishing a B.S. in chemical engineering at Johns Hopkins.…

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Administrative

Brian Daniels, PhD

Brian Daniels, PhD

Brian received his Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, where his research was focused on…

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Alice McElhinney

Alice McElhinney

Alice is an Alliance Manager who oversees several key strategic alliances within the Broad Cardiovascular Disease Initiative.

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Lauren  Mineo

Lauren Mineo

Sr. Program Manager Massachusetts General Hospital Cardiovascular Research Center (CVRC)

Lauren is responsible for operational, administrative and project management.  She also serves as the Human Resource Manager for the CVRC.

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