Lab Members
Al Charest, M.Sc., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cancer Research Institute, Cancer Genetics Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Department of Medicine, Division of Genetics
Dr. Charest obtained his B.Sc. in Biochemistry, M.Sc. in Pharmacology and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. He then pursued Postdoctoral studies at the Center for Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Education: B.Sc. in Biology, Incheon National University
M.Sc in Molecular Cancer Biology, Incheon National University
Ph.D. in Molecular Cancer Biology, Incheon National University
Research Projects: Characterization of PTEN mutants in glioblastoma
Contact: hjun at bidmc dot harvard dot edu
Education: BA in Biochemistry & Molecular Biology (2011)
MA in Biotechnology (2011)
Boston University.
Ph.D. Tufts University (2020)
Research Projects: Checkpoint blockade in genetically engineered mouse models of EGFR-driven glioblastoma.
Contact: ayeo at bidmc dot harvard dot edu
Tuoye Xu
Education: Neuroscience & biotechnology, 2023
Tufts University.
Research Projects: Studies on EGFR missense mutants in gliomagenesis.
Contact: vrogers2 at bidmc dot harvard dot edu
Vaughn.Rogers at tufts dot edu
Principal Investigator
Alan T. Yeo
Education: Undergraduate (2011) Clinical medicine, Jiangsu University, Jiangsu
province, China
Graduate (2013-2016) in Neurosurgery, Nanjing Medical
University, Jiangsu province, China,
Program: The relationship between long-noncoding RNA and
glioma.
Ph.D. in Neurosurgery (2016-2019), Nanjing Medical University,
Jiangsu province, China.
Program:Study on the repair of craniocerebral injury by
reprogramming glial tissue engineering nerve tissue transplantation.
Research Projects: ExRNA communication.
Contact: txu1 at bidmc dot harvard dot edu
Vaughn Rogers
Research Students
S. Mukherjee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor- Collaborator
Hemant Varma, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Dr. Varma obtained his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University. He obtained his M.D. degree at All India Institute of Medical Sciences.
Residency in Anatomic Pathology and Neuropathology, Columbia University Medical Center/
New York Presbyterian Hospital. Dr. Varma then pursued Postdoctoral studies at M.I.T. Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, and Columbia University.
Hyun Jung Jun
Staff Scientist