Hasan Lab Alumni
Year(s) |
Lab Member |
Current Position |
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2019- 2022 |
Pushpamali De Silva, PhD |
Research Fellow Pushpamali is a molecular immunologist and she obtained her PhD from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. Her research in the Hasan group mainly focused on evaluating the antitumor immune response to pancreatic cancer treated with photodynamic therapy. Now she is a research fellow in DFCI, Boston. |
| 2019-2021 | Zhaohui Sunny Zhou, PhD |
Sunny’s laboratory at Northeastern University works on proteins chemistry, analysis and engineering. One program is the development of light-activated protein-based biologics via bioconjugation of proteins. |
| 2018-2021 | Shoaib Ashraf, DVM, PhD |
Shoaib is a biologist (with specialties in Parasitology & Microbiology). He was part of the sub-microbiology group of our lab. His research is mainly on exploiting photodynamic therapy to treat and diagnose deadly malaria. He also works on novel platforms to treat and predict antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Currently he works at McGill University as Assistant Professor. |
| 2020 |
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Jose’s previous research in the Hasan lab focused on evaluating the efficacy of ruthenium(II) complexes in cancer cells and microbes. After earning his PhD from the Complutense University of Madrid, he has returned to the Hasan Lab as a Research Fellow. |
| 2011-2020 |
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Aki’s research is on tumor-targeted, activatable photoimmunotherapy for selective destruction of cancer micrometastasis. Educated at the University of Illinois (PhD) and Cornell University (M.E and BE in physics). |
| 2019-2020 | Hanna Camille Thomsen, PhD  |
Hanna now works as a 3D Imagist Specialist at ZEISS Microscopy in Seattle Washington. Hanna received her PHD from the Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Gothenburg, studying biophotonics |
| 2018-2020 | Joseph WR Swain, BS  |
(Chemistry – PhD program) |
| 2018-2020 | Xiaodong Ding, MD PhD |
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| 2013-2019 | Girgis Obaid, PhD |
Assistant Professor |
| 2019 | Qura Tul Ain |
(PhD Candidate)
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| 2019 | Susan Callaghan, PhD |
MSAT Senior Specialist at Alexion, Dublin Ireland. After graduating from Trinity College Dublin in 2016 with an Honours degree in Chemistry and in 2020 with a PhD in Organic Chemistry, Susan worked as a visiting researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Her work at the Hasan Lab included performing invitro and in vivo experiments and biological assays using photodynamic tools. In her current role, she develops process unit operations including chromatography and TFF. |
| 2019 | Shalin Shetty |
As a Research Technician at the Hasan Lab, he worked on synthesizing nano-liposomal constructs with the aim of enhancing drug delivery of photosensitizers to components of the pancreatic cancer tumor microenvironment. He is now a Senior Clinical Study Administrator at Alexion Pharmaceuticals. |
| 2018-2019 | Marvin Xavierselvan |
After working as a Research Technician at the Hasan Lab, Marvin is now a PhD Candidate at Tufts University. |
| 2015-2019 | Amjad Pervez Khan, PhD |
(Research Scientist)
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| 2016-2019 |
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(PhD Candidate) |
| 2018-2019 | Rei Haraoka, MD | (Department of Neurosurgery) Tokyo Medical University |
| 2010-2018 |
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Tufts University. A frequent collaborator with the Hasan Lab, Valli is now an Assistant professor at Tufts and runs her own lab there (the integrated Biofunctional and Therapeutics Laboratory or iBIT). Her research focuses on utilizing non-invasive acoustic and optical imaging techniques with nanomaterials and biological models to understand the structural, functional, molecular and biomechanical heterogeneity of pathologies such as cancer. She was a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Hasan Lab. |
| 2016-2018 | Shubhankar Nath, DVM, PhD |
Shubhankar is a Senior Scientist at Sensei Bio. His specialties are D Organoids and Characterization • CDX and PDX Tumor Models • PDX Organoid Model for Drug-screening • FACS • RNAi-lentivirus • MSD • High-content imaging • Cell Painting • 3D Image Analysis & Rendering • CRISPR |
| 2000-2018 | Imran Rizvi, PhD |
(Assistant Professor) |
| 2015-2018 | Jerrin Kuriakose, PhD | |
| 2016-2018 | Baldeep Gandhi, Program Manager |
Now studying in Northeastern University Boston, MA |
| 2012-2018 | Huang-Chiao (Joe) Huang, PhD |
(Assistant Professor) Currently Joe is also collaborating with the Hasan Lab as well. |
| 2015-2018 | Yan Baglo, PhD |
(postdoctoral research associate) |
| 2015-2017 | Mans Broekgaarden, PhD |
(Postdoctoral Fellow) |
| 2015-2017 | Ahmed Alkhateeb, PhD |
Director, Oncology External Innovation at Sanofi, MA |
| 2014-2016 | Daniela Vecchio, PhD |
(Clinical Research Scientist) Boston Biomedical |
| 2014-2017 | Anne-Laure Bulin, PhD |
(FRM Research Fellow) INSERM – SRF |
| 2014-2016 | Joyce Liu |
(MD-PhD Candidate) University of Pennsylvania, PA |
| 2014 | Jia Chen, MD, PhD, |
(Attending Physician) |
| 2014 | Nan Xu, MD, PhD | (Associate Professor/Administrative Director of Dermatology) Shanghai East Hospital, Tongji University Shanghai, China |
| 2013-2014 | Heather Gudejko, PhD | (Product Scientist II) Cell Signaling Technologies |
| 2013-2014 | Rehab Amin, PhD | (Assistant Professor) National Institute of Laser Enhanced Science (NILES) Cairo University, Egypt |
| 2012-2015 | Kohei Watanabe, PhD | (Senior Scientist) Canon U.S.A., Inc. & Wellman Center for Photomedicine. |
| 2012-2014 | Chun-Te (Patrick) Chiang, PhD | (Research Scientist) Center for Applied Molecular Medicine, University of Southern California, CA |
| 2012-2014 | Sultan Sibel Erdem, PhD | (Assistant Professor) Isantbul Medipol University, International School of Medicine, Turkey |
| 2012-2013 | Ashwini Ghogare, M.Sc |
(Senior Chemist) Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Inc., Andover |
| 2012-2013 | Ruth Goldschmidt, PhD | (Research Scientist) The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| 2011 | Toshihiro Kushibiki, PhD | (Associate Professor) National Defense Medical College, Japan |
| 2011 | Wael Al-Daraji, MD, PhD | (Consulting Dermatologist) Al-Seef Hospital, Kuwait |
| 2011-2014 | Shazia Khan, PhD | (Scientific Editor/Scientist) Elsevier |
| 2011-2013 | Lawrence B. Mensah, D.Phil (PhD) | (Postdoctoral Research Associate) Department of Chemical Engineering, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT |
| 2011-2013 | Lei Z. Zheng, PhD | (Director Business Development) Fortress Biotech |
| 2011-2013 | Sriram Anbil, BS | (Medical Student) University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio, TX |
| 2011-2012 | R. Bryan Sears, PhD | (Assistant Professor of Chemistry) Emmanuel College Boston, MA |
| 2011-2012 | Stanley Kimani, PhD | (Field Application Scientist) MilliporeSigma |
| 2010-2013 | Shifalika Tangutoori, PhD | (Postdoctoral Research Associate) Northeastern University Boston, MA |
| 2010-2012 | Iqbal Massodi, PhD | (Pharmacy Managert) Rite-Aid,Williamsburg, VA |
| 2009-2011 | Stefan Elrington | (Consultant) The Boston Consulting Group |
| 2009-2011 | Youssef Mir, PhD | (Research Fellow) Centre de biochimie Structurale CNRS UMR 5048 – UM 1 – INSERM UMR 1054 Montpellier Cedex – France |
| 2008-2011 | Adnan Abu Yousif, PhD | (Cancer Pharamcology Scientist) Takeda Oncology, Cambridge, MA |
| 2008-2010 | Prakash R. Rai, PhD | (Assistant Professor) University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA |
| 2008-2010 | Toshihiro Kushibiki, PhD | (Associate Professor) National Defense Medical College, Osaka University, Japan |
| 2008-2010 | Ramtin Rahmanzadeh, PhD | (Research Group Leader) University of Lübeck, Germany |
| 2008-2009 | Conor Evans, PhD | (Assistant Professor) Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2008-2009 | Yupeng Tu | Biotech Healthcare |
| 2007-2012 | Jonathan Celli, PhD |
(Assistant Professor) University of Massachusetts Boston, MA Currently, Jonathan continues his collaborations with the Hasan Lab studying PDT therapy solutions for oral cancer. http://www.quantum.umb.edu/Celli/ |
| 2007-2011 | Xiang Zheng, PhD | (Senior Staff Scientist) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Pearl River, NY |
| 2007-2011 | Ulysses Sallum, PhD |
(Licensing Manager) Partners Healthcare Boston, MA |
| 2007-2009 | Daniel Neuman, PhD | (Licensing Manager II, Innovation) Partners, Healthcare, Boston, MA |
| 2006-2013 | Sarika Verma, PhD | (Clinical Manager) Healthcare Optics Research Laboratory, Canon, Boston, MA |
| 2006-2009 | Humra Athar, PhD | (Senior Research Scientist) Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA |
| 2006-2008 | Arshi Malik, PhD | (Assistant Professor) College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
| 2006-07 | Gregory Watt, PhD | (Research Fellow) Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2005-2007 | Wei Zhong, PhD | (Research Navigator) Harvard Catalyst, The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 2005-2007 | Thomas Stepinac, PhD | (Research Fellow) Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2004-2009 | Oleg E. Akilov, MD, PhD | (Assistant Professor) Department of Dermatology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA |
| 2004-2008 | Sung K. Chang, PhD | (Principal Systems Engineer) Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA |
| 2004-06 | Kathleen O’Riordan, PhD | (Biotechnology Professional) PARAXEL Technology |
| 2004-05 | Amor Khachemoune, MD, CWS | (Dermatologist, Clinical Instructor) SUNY Downstate Medical Center Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | Brett Johnson, PhD | (Research Scientist) Novartis, Cambridge, MA |
| 2003-2004 | Juan Benavides, MS | (Research Engineer) |
| 2003-06 | Sachiko Kosaka, MD, PhD | (Senior Assistant Professor) Nippon Medical School Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003-05 | Ralph Peteranderl, PhD | (Research Fellow) Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 2002-07 | Nicolas Solban, PhD | (Associate Principal Scientist) Merck |
| 2002-02 | Mabubur Bhuiyan, MBBS, Ph.D. | (Research Fellow) Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan |
| 2001-03 | Edward Maytin, MD, PhD |
(Assistant Professor, Assistant Staff, practicing Dermatologist) Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH Currently, Ed continues to work with the Hasan Lab on joint grants studying PDT. https://www.lerner.ccf.org/bme/maytin/ |
| 2001-03 | Pål Selbo, PhD | (Scientist) Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo, Norway |
| 2001-03 | Marietta Ambrose, MD | (Research Fellow) Tufts University Medical School / New England Medical Center, Boston, MA |
| 2001-03 | Lisa Goel, MS | (Company Founder) Nanobiosym, Inc., Medford, MA |
| 2000-03 | Tri A. Dinh, M.D. | (Physician) Gynecologic Oncology, The Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX |
| 2000-02 | David Sharlin, Ph.D. | (Assistant Professor) Department of Biological Sciences at Minnesota State University, Mankato |
| 2000- | Alok Sinha, MD | (Resident Physician) Dept. of Family Medicine, Lutheran Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1999-03 | Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth, M.D. | (Professor and Chair) Medical University of Vienna, Department of Ophthalmology, Vienna, Austria |
| 1999-02 | Marcela del Carmen, M.D., MPH | (Clinical Director) Gillette Center for Gynecologic Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 1999-01 | Anne Moor, Ph.D. | (Industry) The Netherlands (exact location unknown) |
| 1999-00 | Boleslav Kosharskyy, Ph.D. | (Assistant Professor) Dept of Anesthesiology, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY |
| 1998-99 | Máire Doyle, Ph.D. | (Research Associate) National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland |
| 1998-99 | Hans Guenther Loew, M.Sc. | (Graduate Student) University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |
| 1998-99 | Laurence Booth, Ph.D. | (Postdoctoral Fellow) UK (current location unknown) |
| 1998-99 | Krishnan Rajagopalan, Ph.D. | (Managing Partner-Industry) Tysons Corner, McLean, VA |
| 1998-99 | Claudia Alge, M.D. | (Resident) Dept of Opthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany |
| 1998-00 | Mark Savellano | (Manager) Fluroescent Imaging Laboratory, Norris Cotton Cancer Center, Lebanon, NH |
| 1997-98 | Akira Ito, M.D., Ph.D. | (Staff) Department of Dermatology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan |
| 1997 | Michael Lein, M.D. | (Professor Doctor) Dept. of Urology, University Hospital Charitè, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany |
| 1997 | Nedret Altiok, M.D. | (Associate Professor) Pharmacology & Institute of Medical Sciences, Istanbul Science University, Istanbul, Turkey |
| 1995-98 | Nikos Soukos, D.D.S. | (Founder and Director) Applied Molecular Photomedicine Laboratory, Forsyth Institute, Boston, MA |
| 1995-97 | JoAnn Buczek-Thomas, Ph.D. | (Instructor) Dept. of Biochemistry, Boston University School of Med, Boston, MA |
| 1995-97 | Kenneth Trauner, M.D. |
(Surgeon) Kaiser Oakland Dept. of Orthopedic Surgery, Oakland, CA |
| 1995-96 | Brian Pogue, PhD |
Professor of Engineering Dartmouth Dean of Graduate Studies Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH Brian continues to collaborate with the Hasan Lab studying Optics in medicine and PDT. https://engineering.dartmouth.edu/community/faculty/brian-pogue |
| 1995-96 | Linda Duska, M.D. | (Assistant Professor) Dept. of Gynecologic Oncology, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 1995-96 | Martijn van Duijn | (Ph.D. Program) Dept. of Medical Biochemistry, State University Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands |
| 1994-96 | Bernhard Ortel, M.D. | (Associate Professor of Medicine) University of Chicago Medical Center Chicago, IL |
| 1994-96 | Kelly Molpus, M.D. | (Associate Professor and Chief) Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN |
| 1994-96 | Tetsuo Momma, M.D. | (Staff) The 2nd National Hospital, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1994-95 | Marco Del Governatore, M.D. | (Staff) Dept. of Surgery, University Hospital, Bologna, Italy |
| 1994-95 | Giampaolo Ugolini, M.D. | (Staff) Dept. of Surgery, University Hospital, Bologna, Italy |
| 1993-95 | Elisabeth Jeremiasse | (Industrial Scientist) The Netherlands |
| 1993-94 | Beatrice Aveline, Ph.D. | (Instructor) Wellman Laboratories of Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 1993-94 | Benedicte van den Bergh, | (Ph.D. Candidate) Dept. of Medicinal Photochemistry, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands |
| 1993-94 | George Wagnieres, Ph.D. | (Associate Professor) LPAS, Batiment di Chemie, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland |
| 1992-94 | Daniel Kato, M.D. | (Assistant Professor) University of California San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA |
| 1992 | Fernando E. Kaffe, M.D., F.A.C.S. | Sacred Heart Hospital and Baptist Hospital, Peripheral Vascular and Endovascular Care, Pensacola, Florida |
| 1991-94 | Seiichi Iinuma, M.D. | (Staff) Saiseikai Chuoh Hospital, Dept. of Urology, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1991-93 | Chandra Sekar, M.D. | (Resident) Boston University Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 1991-92 | Amitava Chatterjee, Ph.D. | (Head) Dept. of Biochemistry, Chittaranjan National Cancer Institute, Calcutta, India |
| 1991-92 | Ulrich Hermanto, M.D. Ph.D. | New York University, New York, NY |
| 1991-92 | Dani Vooijs | (Research Scientist) Industry, The Netherlands |
| 1990-92 | Barbara Goff, M.D. | (Professor) Dept. of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA |
| 1989-92 | W. Gregory Roberts, Ph.D. | (Research Scientist) University of California San Diego Cancer Center, San Diego, CA |
| 1989-92 | Paolo Ortu, M.D. | (Staff) Dept. of Vascular Surgery, General Hospital, Sardinia |
| 1989-91 | Rüdiger Bachor, M.D. | (Assistant Professor) Dept. of Urology, Urologische Universitätsklinik Ulm, Ulm, Germany |
| 1989-91 | Manfred Scholz, Ph.D. | (Senior Scientist) Bioconsulting Lafaire & Partner, Cambridge, MA |
| 1988-90 | Katsumi Hanada, M.D. | (Professor and Chairman) Dept. of Dermatology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki, Japan |
| 1987-94 | Anthony Cincotta, Ph.D. | (President and CEO) Gematria Sciences, LLC., Tiverton, RI |
| 1987 | Aliki Tserkezoglou, M.D., Ph.D. | (Faculty) Dept. of Gynecology, Athens Hospital, Athens, Greece |
| 1986-89 | Christopher Shea, M.D. | (Associate Professor and Chief of Dermatopathology) Dept. of Pathology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC |
| 1986-89 | Kenneth Linden, Ph.D., M.D. | Dermatology/Dermatologic Oncology, UCI Medical Center, Irvine, CA |
| 1986-88 | Mark Latina, M.D. | (Associate Clinical Professor) Tufts-New England Medical Center, Mass Eye & Ear, and MGH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| 1984-86 | Annette Thomas, Ph.D. | (Editor) Nature, London, United Kingdom |
| 1982-84 | Dorina Abdulah, M.D. | (Staff) Dept. of Geriatrics, Spaulding Rehabilitation Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
