The Beggs Laboratory would like to acknowledge all of the past members who have contributed to our team! We wish them great success in all their endeavors!

If you are missing from this page, or you have new information to update us with, we would love to hear from you!

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Composite image of former Beggs Lab members at work in the lab.
Instructors and research fellows

List includes name, years at lab, and current position:

  • Elizabeth Engle, MD (1992-97): Principal Investigator, F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center; Senior Associate, Department of Neurology; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Faculty in Neurology, Ophthalmology, and Medicine (Genetics & Genomics), Boston Children’s Hospital, Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  • Kathryn North, PhD (1994-95): Institute Director at Murdoch Children's Research Institute; David Danks Professor of Child Health Research at the University of Melbourne
  • Douglas Vander Woude, MD, FACS (1995-97): Cosmetic Surgeon, Plastic Surgery Associates
  • Kathryn Swoboda, MD (1996-98): University of Utah School of Medicine
  • Duangrurdee Wattanasirichaigoon, MD (1996-99): Chief of Genetics, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University; Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Ramathibodi), Mahidol University
  • Fumio Takada, MD, PhD (1997-2001): Director, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Kitasato University Hospital; Professor, Chair, Department of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Kitasato University
  • Hanna Gazda, MD, PhD (1997-2012): Principal Investigator; Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • Despina Sanoudou (1999-2003): Collaborating Scientist at Biomedical Research Foundation of the Academy of Athens; Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, University of Athens
  • Kinga Tomczak, MD, PhD (2001-07): Assistant, Department of Neurology, Instructor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
  • Pankaj Agrawal, MD, MMSc (2001-12): Chief, Division of Neonatology, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics and Jackson Health System
  • Chris Pierson, MD, PhD (2004-07): Neuropathologist, Anatomic Pathology, Nationwide Children's Hospital; Associate Professor, Center for Muscle Health & Neuromuscular Disorders, Ohio State University
  • Vandana A Gupta, PhD (2007-15): Principal investigator, Division of Genetics, at Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
  • Michael Lawlor, MD, PhD (2007-11): Assistant Director, Neuroscience Research Center, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, the Medical College of Wisconsin
  • Wen-Hann Tan, BMBS (2010-13): Attending Physician, Division of Genetics and Genomics, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
  • Mugdha Joshi, MD (2010-15)
  • Ozge Ceyhan Birsoy, PhD (2012-14): Assistant Attending, Clinical Molecular Geneticist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  • Pedro Ciarlini, MD (2013-14): Auxiliary Professor of Pathology, Federal University of Ceara, Sobral, Brazil; Head of the Flow Cytometry Division, Clementino Fraga Laboratory, Fortaleza, Ceara
  • Joel McDade, PhD (2014-15): Associate Director of Business Development, Addgene
  • Minttu Marttila, PhD (2015-17): National Institutes of Health and Welfare Finland
  • Fouad Al Ghamdi, MD (2016-17): Pediatric Neurology, King Fahad Specialist Hospital
Research technicians and assistants
  • Hui Qi Tong, MD
  • Susan Wang
  • Mark Vesely, MD
  • Priya Duggal
  • Charles Midgett
  • Jesse Lugus
  • Olivia Guo
  • Christa Abraham
  • Rebecca Schweikert
  • Patricia Zera
  • Xin Zhao, MS, MD
  • Matt Ronan
  • Amelia Greggel
  • Melissa Barger
  • Marek Kozlowski, MS
  • Nicole Yang
  • Rachel Soemedi, MS
  • Mee Rie Sheen, MS
  • Natasha Darras
  • Gabriel Griffin
  • Kiyomi Cho
  • Matthew Stein
  • Benjamin Read
  • Kyle Schoppel
  • Leana Doherty
  • Zoe Chen
  • Talia Savic
  • Brandon Rider
  • Marie Discenza
  • Christopher Buros
  • Michael Landowski
  • Rachel Edelstein
  • Laura Crowley
  • Ryan Darnall
  • Michelle Graff
  • Roxanne Ghazvinian
  • Tanya Holmes
  • Ayano Kondo
  • Nick Marinakis
  • Sophia Nam
  • Neeha Nori
  • Melisa Poulos
  • Emily Roumm
  • Marissa Viola
  • Daniel Yuan
Graduate and medical students
  • David Fribourg
  • Michael Ettore
  • Leslie Frieden
  • Hajer Gasmi
  • Brooke Roebuck
  • Danielle Pier
  • Emily Roumm
  • Cynthia Hsu
  • Mariana Fontes
  • Laura L. Smith
  • Rebecca Gibbs
Undergraduate students
  • Adrian Castro
  • Meg Macy
  • Alessandro Nardi
  • Alison Arch
  • Esala Sumadasan
  • Laura DeGirolami
  • Oliva Guo
  • Daniel Newberger
  • Elizabeth Asch
  • Colin Baker
  • Jesse Schoonmaker
  • Molly O'Connell
  • Elizabeth Barrett
  • Omri Geva
  • Ariana Wermer-Colan
  • Stacey Gundry
  • Junko Shimizu
  • Iléana Blancq
  • Emma Senner
  • Kamryn Jebb
Co-op/high school/summer/intern students
  • Sundos Al-Husayni
  • Jessica Bass
  • Nate Goldman
  • Stacey Gundry
  • Jessica McIntire
  • Nancy Resteghini
  • Junko-Shimazu
  • Ethan Talbot
  • Ariana Wermer-Colan
  • Mervin Zhao