Meet Our Team
Matt Sampson, MD, MS Principal Investigator
Michelle McNulty, MS Computational Biologist
Ana Onuchic-Whitford, MD Instructor, Harvard School of Medicine Nephrologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Janewit Wongboosin, MD, MS Adult Nephrology Fellow
Kathy Madrazo, MD, MSc Clinical Research Specialist
David Vanderwall MD-PhD Student at Harvard Medical School
Eman Seyal Research Intern
Junmo Sung, MS Data Analyst
Adrian Banerji, MD Pediatric Nephrology and Clinical Fellow
Sowmya Badina, BS Research Trainee
Sidhant Puntambekar, BS Bioinformatician
The Dongwon Lee Lab
The Dongwon Lee Lab and Sampson Lab for Kidney Genomics have been valuable partners since 2019, collaborating closely to advance research on kidney disease through the lens of genomics. The Lee Lab aims to understand how gene regulation contributes to the development and progression of human diseases, specifically focusing on kidney diseases. We use a combination of single-cell multiomics data, genetic data from disease cohorts, functional assays, and machine-learning approaches to address these complex problems. In addition, we work closely with clinicians and experimental biologists to validate and verify our models and predictions. We are dedicated to developing new genomic computational tools and making them accessible to the research community.
Dongwon Lee, PhD Principal Investigator
Jeerthi Kannan, MS Research Assistant
Daniel (Duc) Nguyen, BA Research Assistant
Anya Greenberg, BS Computational Biologist
Yangyang Lin Research Assistant
Eric Sakkas, BA Research Assistant
Our Lab Alumni
Waverly Alcure, MS | Community Outreach & Social Media Coordinator, current Marketing & Communications Coordinator at the Society for Pediatric Research
Alexandra Barry, BS | Research Assistant I, current Graduate Student at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Christopher Benway, PhD | Computational Biologist, current Senior Bioinformatics Engineer at Exosome Diagnostics
Catherine Channell | Summer Research Assistant, current Undergraduate Student at Loyola Marymount University
Brendan Crawford, MD | Clinical Fellow, current Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Arkansas Children’s Hospital
Jenn Fishbein, MD | Pediatric Nephrology Clinical Fellow
Christopher Gillies, PhD, MS | Programmer Analyst Sr., current Senior Manager Computational Genomics at Regeneron
AC Gomez, MD | Adult & Pediatric Nephrology Clinical Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Brigham Women’s Hospital
Seong Kyu Han, PhD | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, current Assistant Professor at Inha University, Department of Biological Sciences
Betul Haykir, PhD | Postdoctoral Research Fellow, current Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Boston Children’s Hospital David Breault Lab
Gina Kalkar, BA | Research Assistant, current PhD Student at Columbia University
Lily McCloskey | Student Research Assistant, current senior at Case Western Reserve University
China Nagano, MD, PhD | Visiting Research Fellow
Rose Putler, MS | Statistical Geneticist, current Data Scientist at Duo Security
Kaylia Reynolds, MS | Computational Biologist
Catherine Robertson, PhD, MS | Research Analyst, current Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Michigan
Parsa Seyfourian, BS | Computational Summer Research Intern, current Undergraduate Student at The University of British Columbia
Kalyn Yasutake, MPH | Research Specialist, current Senior Research Associate at Building Changes
Jennifer Lai Yee, MD | Clinical Research Fellow, current Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital
Jihoon Yoon, MD, PhD | Research Associate, current Clinical Fellow in the Department of Genomic Medicine at Seoul National University Hospital