Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lab Members
Lab Members
Principal Investigator

Kristin Knouse, M.D., Ph.D.
knouse[at]mit.edu
Kristin is the Whitehead Career Development Professor in the MIT Department of Biology and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research. She received a B.S. in biology from Duke University in 2010 and then enrolled in the Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) M.D.-Ph.D. Program, where she earned a Ph.D. through the MIT Department of Biology in 2016 and an M.D. through the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology in 2018. She conducted her doctoral research in the laboratory of Angelika Amon, where she developed tools to understand the prevalence and prevention of large-scale DNA copy number alterations in mammalian tissues. In 2018, she joined the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research as a Whitehead Fellow and was honored with the NIH Director’s Early Independence Award. There, she transitioned her research to building tools to understand and modulate regenerative capacity across tissues. In July 2021, she joined the MIT Department of Biology and Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research as an assistant professor.
Staff and Trainees

Tony McMillen
Administrative Assistant
amcmille[at]mit.edu

Sarit Radak
Research Assistant
saritrad[at]mit.edu

Hiro Harimoto
Research Assistant
hiro1104[at]mit.edu

Kristina Lopez
Graduate Student
Biology
NASEM Ford Fellow
tlopez[at]mit.edu

Bruce Enzmann
Graduate Student
Biological Engineering
NSF Graduate Fellow
benzmann[at]mit.edu

Monica Petulla
Undergraduate Student
Chemistry and Biology
map1147[at]mit.edu
Alumni
Name
Position in Lab
Current Position
Diana Gomes
Postdoctoral fellow
(2020-2023)
Scientific Fellow,
Debiopharm
Xianyu Hao
Research Assistant
(2020-2022)
Graduate Student,
Harvard University
Inaki Villanueva Piedrabuena
Master's Student
(2022)
Postgraduate Associate,
Novartis
Priyanka Ghosh
Research Assistant
(2018-2019)
Engineer,
CRISPR Therapeutics