Kleinstiver Group Members

Ben Kleinstiver, PhD

Kayden-Lambert MGH Research Scholar 2023-2028

Associate Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School (HMS)

PhD in Biochemistry @ Western University 🇨🇦

Postdoctoral Research @ MGH and HMS
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Connor Tou, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Prev: PhD Candidate, MIT BE

Education: B.S. in Bioengineering @ UC Berkeley 🇺🇸

Research interests: Editing tech dev & ML 🛠

True story: pipettes and runs marathons at the same time 🏃

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Emily King, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Prev: PhD Candidate, Harvard BBS

Education: B.S. in Biology @ Northeastern University 🇺🇸

Research interests: protein engineering, genome editing, delivery
Hobbies: Wordle, painting 🎨, concerts 🎵 (in that order)
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Nahye Kim, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Forbes 30 under 30 Korea ⭐️🇰🇷

MGH ECOR FMD Research Fellowship Award ⭐️

Education: Ph.D. @ Yonsei University College of Medicine & B.S. @ Sungkyunkwan University 🇰🇷

Research interests: genome editing & genomics

Life goal: become a yoga guru 🧘🏻‍♀️🙏
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David Rufino Ramos, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

FARA Postdoctoral Fellowship ⭐️

Education: Ph.D. & M.Sc. @ University of Coimbra 🇵🇹
Research interests: tech dev, delivery 📦, Tx

When not in lab: Firefighter & Emergency Medical Technician 🦸🚒
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Chris Cromwell, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Formerly, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow ⭐️

Education: Ph.D. & B.Sc. @ University of Alberta 🇨🇦
Research interests: Genome editing & modified nucleic acids 🧬
Loves: Hockey 🏒 & horespower 🏎️, eh!
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Gabriel Longo, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Walter Benjamin Postdoctoral Fellow ⭐️

Education: PhD @ Institute of Molecular Biology - Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz 🇩🇪
BSc @ Federal University of Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷
Research interests: Genome editing, DNA repair and Genomics 🧬 💻
Notable feat: Spent 92,135 minutes listening to music in 2024 🎶
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Dahlia Halabi

Graduate student (Harvard Bioengineering)

Education: B.S.E. Biomedical Engineering, Duke University 🇺🇸
Research interests: Tech dev, disease biology, and neurodegeneration 🧬 🧠
Outside of lab: music, baking, doomscrolling (in that order) 🍞📜
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Kiran Bajaj

Research Technician

Education: B.S. in Marine Biology @ Northeastern University 🇺🇸

Research interests: Genomics / gene editing 📖🧬

Hobbies: hiking & scuba diving 🤿 🌊
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Annie Elliott

Research Technician

Education: BS in Bioengineering & Biochem @ Northeastern University 🇺🇸

Research interests: Genome editing / protein engineering 🧬✂️

Outside of lab: reading on a sailboat off into the sunset 📚⛵️🌅
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Shraddha Shirguppe, PhD

Postdoctoral fellow

Education: Ph.D. in Bioengineering @ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; B.Eng. in Biotechnology @ BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore, India 🇮🇳

Research interests: Genome editing, therapies, & delivery 📩 🧬

Survival kit includes: coffee, desserts, and a kayak that she can't steer ☕️ 🚣
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Dennis Wu

Graduate student (Harvard, MCO)

Education: B.S. in Biological Engineering @ Cornell University 🇺🇸

Research interests: Genome editing & tech dev 🧬

Outside of lab: soccer ⚽️, snowboarding 🏂; and hunting for good food 😋
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Chris Plumeyer

MD internship

Education: M.D. @ Technical University Munich 🇩🇪

Research interests: Genome editing and therapies 🩺

Fun fact: Chris learned all 50 states and their capital cities on a road trip 🛣️ (pls quiz him)
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Luis Huth

Master's degree internship

Education: B.Sc. Biotechnology @ Technical University of Berlin 🇩🇪
MSc Quantitative Molecular Biology @ Humboldt University Berlin (ongoing) 🇩🇪

Research interests: Genome editing tx & personalized medicine 💊🧬

Hobbies: Rowing 🚣, dancing 🕺, & biking 🚴
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Marik Müller

Master's degree internship

Education: B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology @ Heidelberg University 🇩🇪

Research interests: Computational protein design 🖥️, directed evolution 🧫, & genome editing 🧬

Outside of lab: figuring out ways to ski ⛷️ & play volleyball 🏐 at the same time

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Aysel Ogul

Research Technician

Education: BA in Molecular Therapeutics, Molecular and Cellular Biology & Minor in Turkish @ UC Berkeley 🇺🇲

Research interests: Genomics & genome editing 🧬

Would rather be: skydiving 🪂 or kayaking 🚣

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Hannah Watry, MTM

Program Manager

Education: BA in Developmental Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology @ UC Berkeley; Master's of Translational Medicine @ UCB/UCSF 🇺🇲

Research interests: Gene editing & therapeutics 🧬

Hobbies: reading 📖 & gardening 🧑‍🌾 🌱

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Co-mentored members

Ginnie Hu, MS

Graduate student, SHBT, Harvard

1º Mentor: Dr. David Corey, Harvard

Education: MS Biomedical Engineering @ National Taiwan University 🇹🇼
Research interests: genetic therapies for hereditary hearing loss 🦻🎶

Loves to: scuba diving 🤿 & snowboard 🏂
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Yedda Li, MD, PhD

Neurology Resident, Postdoctoral Fellow

1º Mentor: Dr. Florian Eichler, MGH & HMS

Education: MD & PhD @ Wash U St. Louis 🇺🇸
Research interests: precision medicine 🏥

Won't stop until: we develop genetic treatments for leukodystrophies & other diseases 💊
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Ann Cirincione, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

1º Mentor: Dr. Luca Pinello, MGH & HMS

Education: PhD in Quantitative & Computational Biology @ Princeton University; B.S. in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology @ University of Maryland, Baltimore County 🇺🇸
Research interests: genome editing, variant effect prediction, & ML 🧑‍💻

Outside of lab: hanging with her cat Fig 🐈
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