Open positions for postdoctoral fellows

April 21, 2021

We are looking for passionate new talent with a strong background in computational biology, mathematics/statistics, and/or scalable computing. The details of the open positions can be found here. We are also recruiting research assistants. If you are interested in joining our team, please send your CV and a brief statement of your research interests to ealice.lee at childrens.harvard.edu with [...

August awarded the Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship!

August 8, 2022

Postdoctoral fellow August Huang was awarded the Alzheimer's Association Research Fellowship! This fellowship is "intended to support exceptional researchers who are engaged in their post-graduate work (i.e. postdoctoral fellows) and before they have their first independent faculty positions (i.e. Assistant Professor) and working in diverse areas of research, including basic, translational, clinical, functional and social-behavioral research". Congratulations, August!

Learn more about the fellowship here: https://www.alz.org/research/for_researchers/...

Jenny awarded the NIH F30 Fellowship for MD-PhD students!

July 20, 2022

Jenny, an MD-PhD candidate in the lab, was awarded the F30 fellowship from the NIH! Congratulations, Jenny!

Danielle and Fatima pass their PQEs!

June 16, 2022

Danielle and Fatima successfully passed their preliminary qualifying exams (PQEs)! Congratulations to our lab's newest PhD candidates!

Boxun awarded the ACMG Foundation/David L. Rimoin Inspiring Excellence Award

April 20, 2022

Boxun was awarded the ACMG Foundation/David L. Rimoin Inspiring Excellence Award at the 2022 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting for his featured platform presentation, "Discovery and therapeutic implications of pathogenic retroelements in neurodegenerative diseases." Congratulations, Boxun!

Read more: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/boxun-zhao-phd-is-the-recipient-of-the-2022-acmg-foundationdavid-l-rimoin-inspiring-excellence-award-301496339.html

Eduardo successfully defends his thesis. Congrats, Dr. Maury!

March 8, 2022

Eduardo successfully defended his PhD thesis, 'Somatic mutations in the human brain: Tracing the origins of cancer and schizophrenia'! Congrats Dr. Maury, we are so proud of you! Eduardo will be returning to medical school to complete his MD-PhD training at Harvard Medical School.

Danielle joins the lab!

February 8, 2022

Danielle Denisko, a G2 in the Bioinformatics and Integrative Genomics (BIG) PhD program at Harvard, officially joined the lab. Welcome, Danielle!

Talk on transposon detection in ancient WGS data at Transposon Keystone meeting 2022

January 5, 2022

Elain's abstract on grnTea (pronounced green tea), a tool for transposon detection in ancient WGS data, was selected for a short talk at the transposon Keystone meeting. Congrats Elain!

Lan Dong awarded the AHA Predoctoral Fellowship

January 5, 2022

Lan was awarded the American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship, for her research proposal on somatic mutations in human cardiomyocytes. Congrats Lan!

Platform Presentation on pathogenic retroelements in neurodegenerative diseases

December 13, 2021

Boxun's abstract on "Discovery and therapeutic implications of pathogenic retroelements in neurodegenerative diseases" was selected as a Featured Platform Presentation at the 2022 ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting. Congrats, Boxun!

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