Diseases

Differently shaped RNA molecules allow HIV to express different genes from the same RNA sequence.

Elizabeth Boydston is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Sebastian Lourido’s lab investigating the pathogen Toxoplasmsa gondii. We sat down with Boydston to learn more about her and her experiences in and out of the lab.

Anushka Dongre is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Member Robert (Bob) Weinberg’s lab investigating how cancers spread and how the body’s own immune system can be used to fight them. 

Vijay Sankaran is an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, interim chief and an attending physician in hematology and oncology at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and an associate member of Broad Institute. We talked to Sankaran about his career, interests, and experiences at Whitehead Institute.

Michael Gallagher is a postdoc working jointly in the labs of Whitehead Institute Founding Member Rudolf Jaenisch and Whitehead Institute Member Richard Young investigating gene regulation in neurodegenerative diseases.

Lukas Chmatal is a postdoc in the Whitehead Institute Member David Page’s lab, and he is investigating the higher incidence of certain cardiac diseases in men versus women. 

Danielle Tomasello is a postdoctoral fellow investigating neurodevelopmental disorders in Whitehead Institute Member Hazel Sive’s lab. Tomasello is a Simons Center for the Social Brain fellow and was previously Whitehead Institute’s Balkin-Markell-Weinberg Fellow. She is also the creator of The Social Scientist, an outreach and networking site for scientists. We sat down with Tomasello to learn a bit more about her and her experiences in the lab.

Brian Abraham is a computational biology postdoc studying the role of DNA transcription in human health and disease in Whitehead Member Richard Young's lab.

Whitney Henry is a postdoc in Whitehead Institute Founding Member Robert Weinberg’s lab investigating ways to target a type of cancer cell that is particularly prone to metastasis and resisting treatment.