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Student Spotlight with Olivia Weeks

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Olivia Weeks has been selected by HSCI to receive the 2015 Sternlicht Director’s Fund Fellowship. The Fund was established in 2007 and has supported the educational pursuits of nine graduate students and two postdoctoral fellows participating in type 1...

Stem Cell Scientist Spotlight with Carolyn Hudak

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by Irina Cashen Matrix: Tell us about your outfit Carolyn. You look like a bumblebee. Carolyn: Well, I started wearing yellow on Fridays when I was a graduate student, because I’d started losing track of time due to being in the lab all day every day...

Stem Cell Scientist Spotlight with Phylis Hetie

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Phylis Hetie is a postdoctoral research fellow in Dr. Lee Rubin’s lab in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. This past summer she attended The Business of Regenerative Medicine Conference, “How to Build a Company,”...

Student Spotlight with Mohammed Mostajo Radji

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Mohammed Mostajo Radji, a graduate student in Paola Arlotta’s lab in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB), has had a very busy last six months. Since July, he has been planning an intense, immersive, one-week science program...

Scientist Spotlight with Albert Almada and Sharif Bordbar

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Happy spring, readers! Matrix sat down to talk with Albert Almada and Sharif Bordbar, postdocs in HSCI Principal Faculty member Amy Wager’s lab, about “Strength, Science, and Stories of Inspiration,” an event organized to raise awareness about...

Stem Cell Scientist Spotlight with David Shechner

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The summer is winding to an end, and Matrix is catching up with David Shechner, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Rinn Lab at Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB). He gave Matrix an earful about his unpronounceable research, his...

Student Spotlight with Stephanie Hadley

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Stephanie Hadley graduated this May from Harvard College with a concentration in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology. Before she jets off to Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee this summer, Stephanie found time to...

Student Spotlight with Ernie Doherty

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Having recently turned in his thesis, Ernie Doherty, a Harvard senior concentrating in Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, took a moment to tell HSCI about his work, literary interests, and most importantly - the contents of his fridge. HSCI: So...

Staff Spotlight with Laverne Martinez

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This month Matrix interviewed Laverne Martinez, Fellowship Coordinator and Sponsored Research Associate at the Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (HSCRB). She told us about what she loves most about her job, and about an important...

Xconomy Forum: What's Hot in Boston Biotech

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Life sciences innovation is moving fast these days, and perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in Boston. Local companies, researchers, and entrepreneurs are pursuing some of the boldest ideas in the field—T-cell therapy, gene therapy, RNA interference...

Stem Cell Scientist Spotlight with Lauren Jasko

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Lauren Jasko works as a Research Assistant at HSCI’s iPS Core facility. She hails from Hudson, Ohio, and has a B.A. in Neuroscience from Hiram College. She filled us in on her role at the Core, her passion for oil painting, and her plans for medical...

Stem Cell Scientist Spotlight with Alex Poulopoulos

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Alex Poulopoulos is a postdoc in the Macklis lab. He is originally from Athens, Greece, and earned his PhD in neuroscience jointly from the International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) and the University of Göttingen in Germany. He sat down to tell us...