The Zhang lab is powered by a team of diverse individuals fired up about solving scientific challenges & learning new things.

Image credit to Steph Stevens

Current Members

  • Will Allen

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Erin Blackwell

    Associate Director of Operations

  • James Briggs

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sylvia Chang

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Grace Edmonds

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Guilhem Faure

    Senior Computational Scientist

  • Mirco Friedrich

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Seiichi Hirano

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Kalli Kappel

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Joe Kreitz

    Graduate Student

  • Blake Lash

    Graduate Student

  • Catie Liu

    Graduate Student

  • Yang Liu

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Rhiannon Macrae

    Senior Scientific Advisor

  • Victoria Madigan

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Samantha Maguire

    Research Associate

  • Joanie Mok

    Senior Laboratory Operations Manager

  • Sarah Redding

    Senior Operations Specialist

  • Makoto Saito

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Michael Segel

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Dan Strebinger

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Sam Vo

    Research Scientist

  • Max Wilkinson

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Peiyu Xu

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Feng Zhang

    Professor

  • Yugang Zhang

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Shiyou Zhu

    Postdoctoral Fellow

  • Shai Zilberzwige-Tal

    Postdoctoral Fellow

Since 2011, we have trained over 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, more than 20 undergraduate and Master’s students, and more than 20 research assistants. Our members have come from diverse backgrounds and from all over the world. We continue to support these alumni in all their endeavors, from continuing education to starting their own labs and businesses, in the sciences and beyond.

Alumni

Jonathan Strecker2016 - 2023Assistant Investigator at MGH
Naiwen Cui2019 - 2022Partner at FoundersX Ventures
Xin Jin2016 - 2021Assistant Professor at Scripps Research
Janghwan Cho2019 - 2020Senior Scientist at Spark Therapeutics
Jonathan Schmid-Burgk2016 - 2020Assistant Professor at University Hospital Bonn
Josh Weinstein2012 - 2019Assistant Professor at University of Chicago
Serge Gueroussov2016 - 2019Senior Scientist at Tango Therapeutics
Sara Jones2014 - 2019Beam Therapeutics
Eric Zheng2017 - 2018Research Scientist at Synthego
Ian Slaymaker2012 - 2018Senior Scientist at Beam Therapeutics
Naomi Habib2012 - 2018Assistant Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Halil Tekin2013 - 2018
Sourav Choudhury2015 - 2016Scientific Program Lead at LogicBio Therapeutics
Jason Wright2015 - 2016Director of Molecular Biology and Genomics at Homology Medicines
James Dahlman2014 - 2016Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech
Neville Sanjana2011 - 2016Assistant Professor at NYU and New York Genome Center
Matthias Heidenreich2012 - 2016Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Ophir Shalem2012 - 2016Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania
Yang Zhou2011 - 2015Assistant Professor at McGill University
Lukasz Swiech2011 - 2015Senior Scientist at Agenus

Postdoctoral Fellows

Rumya Raghavan2023Postdoctoral Fellow at Broad Institute
Chris Frangieh2023Consultant
Han Altae-Tran2023Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington
Soumya Kannan2023Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows
Suchita Nety2023MD Student at Harvard Medical School
Julia Joung2021Postdoctoral Fellow at Whitehead Institute
Alim Ladha2021Associate at MPM Capital
Linyi Gao2020Assistant Professor at Stanford University
David Feldman2019Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Washington
Omar Abudayyeh2018McGovern Fellow at MIT
Jonathan Gootenberg2018McGovern Fellow at MIT
David Cox2018Resident Physician at Stanford University School of Medicine
Bernd Zetsche2017Scientist at Beam Therapeutics
Aaron Smargon2017Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSD
Neena Pyzocha2017Scientist at Inari Agriculture
Winston Yan2017Co-Founder at Arbor Biotechnologies
David Scott2016Co-Founder at Arbor Biotechnologies
Yinqing Li2016Assistant Professor at Tsinghua University
Silvana Konermann2015Assistant Professor at Stanford University
Randall Platt2015Associate Professor at ETH Zürich
Fei Ann Ran2014Beam Therapeutics
Le Cong2014Assistant Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine
Benjamin HolmesCo-Founder and CEO at Aeronaut Brewery
Patrick Hsu2014Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley
Mark Brigham2014Consultant at Clarion Consulting

Graduate Students

Arianna Dorschel2023PhD Student at EPFL
Lukas Moeller2022 - 2023PhD Student at CalTech
Francisca Bohning2019 - 2020PhD Student at Humboldt University of Berlin
Paul Kirchgatterer2018 - 2019PhD Student at University of Vienna
Marjorie Lienard2018 - 2019Lund University
Max Kellner2017 - 2018PhD Student at Cambridge University
Belwina Koopal2017 - 2018
Florian Schmidt2016PhD Student at ETH
Iana Fedorov2015 - 2016
Nerges Windblad2015 - 2016
Patrick Essletzbichler2014, 2016PhD Student at University of Vienna
Chiuyu LiuPhysician at Massachusetts General Hospital
Shuailing Lin2012Ligandal

Visiting Students & Fellows

Esra Demircioglu2019 - 2023Group Leader - Principal Scientist at Genentech
Kate DeLong2021 - 2023PhD Student at Stanford
Anthony Suberski2021 - 2022Consultant
Rachel Oshiro2019 - 2022MD/PhD Student at UCSD
Michelle Walsh2020 - 2022MD/PhD Student at Harvard
Elena Puccio2020 - 2022Medical Student at Pitt
Iris Peng2020 - 2022MD/PhD Student at Case Western Reserve
Jerry Song2020 - 2022MD/PhD Student at Stanford
Edwin Neumann2019 - 2021PhD Student at MIT
Ankita Singh2019 - 2021MD Student at UC Davis
Rich Belliveau2015 - 2020Associate Director of Laboratory Operations at Broad Institute
Amy Guo2018 - 2020MD Student at NYU
Ellie Bruns2019 - 2020Analytical Sciences Associate at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Jeremy Koob2017 - 2019PhD Student at Harvard
Brian Franklin2017 - 2019MD/PhD Student at University of Pennsylvania
Zach Gardner2017 - 2019MD/PhD Student at University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Piacitelli2017 - 2019MD Student
Vanessa Verdine2016 - 2018Senior Research Associate at Monte Rosa Therapeutics
Xi Shi2013 - 2018Scientist at Takeda
Theresa Oei2015 - 2017PhD Student at Harvard
Michael Yim
Alex Trevino
Kaijie Zheng
David Li2018 - 2022Marshall Scholar
Katherine Collins2018
Jonathan Fee2017, 2018
Zachary Gilbert2014 - 2015
Sara Volz2014 - 2015
Nikhil Buduma2014
Lori Minassian2014MD/PhD Student at Queen's University
Alexandria Nikish2013 - 2015Research Associate at CRISPR Therapeutics
Elizabeth Li2013 - 2015
Hannah Kempton2013 - 2015PhD Student at Stanford
Yuchi Kuo2011 - 2013
Margaret Cunniff2011 - 2013PhD Student at UCSF

Undergraduate Students

Former Staff