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Lab Members

Lab Members

Principal Investigator

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Kristin Knouse, M.D., Ph.D.

knouse[at]mit.edu

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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

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Tony McMillen

Administrative Assistant

amcmille[at]mit.edu 

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Sarit Radak

Research Assistant

saritrad[at]mit.edu

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Hiro Harimoto

Research Assistant

hiro1104[at]mit.edu

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Kristina Lopez

Graduate Student

Biology

NASEM Ford Fellow

tlopez[at]mit.edu

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Bruce Enzmann

Graduate Student

Biological Engineering

NSF Graduate Fellow

benzmann[at]mit.edu

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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

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