Kleinstiver Group Members

Ben Kleinstiver, PhD

Assistant Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School (HMS)

PhD in Biochemistry @ Western University 🇨🇦

Postdoctoral Research @ MGH and HMS

Logan Hille

PhD Candidate
(Harvard BBS)

Education: swears that he finished his B.S. in Biochemistry @ Indiana University 🇺🇸

Research interests: genome engineering, keeping cells alive 🤷🏻‍♂️

Outside of the lab: proving to people that Indiana corn is #1 🌽
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Rachel Silverstein

PhD Candidate
(Harvard BBS)

Education: B.Sc. in Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto 🇨🇦

Research interests: genomics & tech dev

Connor Tou

Graduate Student
(MIT BE)
NSF GRFP ⭐️

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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Linyuan Ma, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: Ph.D. @ China Agricultural University & B.S. @ Southwest University 🇨🇳

Research interests: gene editing tech & gene therapies 💉

Hobbies: fishing 🎣 and eating 🥢

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Chris Alves, PhD

Instructor
James L. and Elisabeth C. Gamble Award ⭐️

Education: Ph.D. and B.S @ University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 🇧🇷
Research interests: Physiology & editing therapies

Aspiring to: not run a marathon 🏃‍♂️🙅‍♂️

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Lani Ha

Research Technician

Education: B.S. in Molecular Biology @ UCLA 🇺🇸
Research interests: Medical genetics & therapies

Best known for: watching the office on repeat 📎

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Emily King

Graduate Student
(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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Jo Ferreira da Silva, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Education: Ph.D. @ CeMM 🇦🇹; MSc @ NOVA 🇵🇹

Research Interests: genome editing & therapies; DNA repair 🧬
Knows too much about: cheese 🧀🐁

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Blaire Smith

Research Technician

Education: B.S. in Biomed. Eng. and Biology @ Boston University 🇺🇸

Research interests: Genome editing / therapies / neurodegenerative diseases

Hobbies: baking, fluting, marching 🧁🎵
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Apurva Kanneganti

Rotation student
(Harvard/MIT MD-PhD Program)

Education: B.A. Chem & Phys Bio @ Harvard
Research Interests: translational medicine 📿, therapeutics 💉
Hobbies: hiking 🌋, dancing, reading
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Ann-Sophie Kröll

M.Sc. Intern

Education: B.Sc. in Molecular Biotechnology @ University of Heidelberg 🇩🇪
Research interests: gene editing, protein engineering, bioinformatics 👩‍💻
Claim to fame: Vice European Quidditch champion 🧹
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