People

Isaac Ming-Cheng Chiu

isaac_chiu@hms.harvard.edu

Professor of Immunology

Ph.D. in Immunology - Harvard University

A.B. in Biochemistry - Harvard College

Isaac Chiu is a Professor of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. He received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry at Harvard College in 2002. During that time, he worked with Professor Jack L. Strominger on MHCI trafficking in B cells and at the...

Nicole Almanzar

nalmanzar@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student - Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

B.S. in Biomedical Computation - Stanford University

Nicole is originally from Port Jefferson Station, a town in Long Island, New York. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, she majored in biomedical computation, worked for a community-based health equity initiative, and was a research assistant for a...

Naija Barakat

Naija_Barakat@hms.harvard.edu

PiNBAC Trainee

B.S. in Neuroscience - Washington and Lee University

Naija Barakat was born and raised in Chesterfield, a suburb of Richmond, Virginia. She graduated with a degree in Neuroscience from Washington and Lee University in May of 2024. Previously, she studied the relationship between early life trauma, feeding...

Himanish Basu

himanish_basu@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Biological and Biomedical Sciences - Harvard University

Himanish was born in Kolkata, a city in the eastern part of India. After getting his undergraduate degree in microbiology from St. Xavier's College, he moved to the west cost of India to a city called Mumbai. There he got his Master's degree in Biological...

So Yoen Choi

soyoen_choi@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Biomedical Science - Korea University

So Yoen was born and lived in South Korea. She received the Master’s and PhD degree from Korea University. During her graduate studies, she worked with Dr. Woong Sun on the regulation of mitochondrial dynamics and its effects on motor neuronal cell death...

Seung Ah Choi

seungah_choi@hms.harvard.edu

Visiting Scholar

Ph.D. Student in Biomedical Science – Seoul National University, South Korea

Seung Ah Choi was born and raised in South Korea. She is currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Dr. Won-woo Lee’s lab at Seoul National University College of Medicine. As a visiting student researcher, she joined the Chiu lab through the Harvard-SNUH...

Bahawar Sharif Dhillon

bahawar_dhillon@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student - Harvard Medical School Immunology Program

B.S. in Biological Sciences: Molecular Genetics - University of Rochester

Raised in Lahore, Pakistan, Bahawar moved to the United States to attend the University of Rochester, where he majored in Biological Sciences with a focus on Molecular Genetics and minored in Computer Science and Computational Biology. During his...

Larissa Ferrari

larissa_ferrari@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology - State University of Londrina, Brazil

Larissa was born and grew up in Adamantina, a small town located inside of Sao Paulo. She earned her B.S in Pharmacy, and to pursue the career in science she started her master’s degree in Experimental Pathology at the State University of Londrina...

Georgia Gunner

georgia_gunner@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Neuroscience – University of Massachusetts Medical School

Georgia was born in England but grew up in Massachusetts. She received her B.S in Biology-Psychology from Tufts University in 2012. She went on to do her Ph.D in Neuroscience under the mentorship of Dr. Dorothy Schafer at the University of Massachusetts...

Coco Holliday

cholliday@g.harvard.edu

Ph.D. Student - Harvard Medical School Immunology Program

B.S. in Neuroscience - University of Virginia

Coco Holliday is a Tennessee native who grew up in both Memphis and Nashville. For college, she attended the University of Virginia, where she graduated with a degree in Neuroscience, was a distance runner for UVA’s Cross Country & Track teams, and...

Xiao-Qian (Sharon) Hu

xiao-qian_hu@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Neuroscience – The University of Hong Kong

Sharon was born and raised in Guangdong, China. She received her BSc in Rehabilitation from Zhongshan Medical School at Sun Yat-sen University. Sharon then earned her Master in Medical Sciences and PhD in Neuroscience at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, The...

Tomás Huerta

tomas_huerta@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine - Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell

Tomás hails from Brooklyn, New York. He received his B.A. from Cornell University with a major in Biology and a concentration in Neuroscience. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Molecular Medicine from the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. Under...