Previous fellows

Name Years Research Subject
Leonard Sender (MD) 1988-1989 Glucocerebrosidase (GC) gene expression
Joel Weinthal (MD) 1989-1991 GC gene expression in murine bone marrow
Gay M. Crooks (MD)  1991-1993 Gene transfer to human hematopoietic stem cells
Wanda J. Krall (PhD) 1993-1995  Regulation of gene from retroviral vectors
Jan A. Nolta (PhD) 1994-1996 Gene transfer into human stem cells
Punam Malik (MD) 1995-1997 Lineage-directed gene expression, AAV
Mei-Mei Huang (PhD) 1995-1997 Gene therapy for Hurler disease, Wiskott-Aldrich
Robert Cooper (MD)  1995-1997  Role of methylation in vector silencing
Leo Mascarenhas (MD) 1996-1998 Gene transfer into human leukemia cells
Renata Stripecke (PhD) 1995-1999 Immunotherapy of childhood leukemia
Stephanie Halene (MD) 1997–2000 Vector expression/silencing
Scott Case (PhD) 1997–2000 Lentiviral vectors for gene therapy
Steve Rawlings (PhD) 1999–2000 Vectors encoding HIV inducible apoptosis
Diana Fan (MD) 2000 2001-2002 Immunotherapy for childhood leukemia
Noriko Satake (MD) 1998–2001 Immune responses and tolerance to transgenes
Barbara Engel (MD) 1998–2001 HIV gene therapy
Carolyn Lutzko (PhD) 1999–2004 Lineage specific gene expression
Hiroshi Kobayashi (MD) 2002–2004 Gene therapy for lysosomal storage disease
Kit Shaw (PhD) 2002–2007 Lineage specific gene expression
Roger Hollis (PhD) 2003–2006 Gene transfer to human hematopoietic stem cells
Christof Kahl (PhD) 2003–2007 Gene transfer to rhesus CD34+ cells
Noriko Satake (MD) 2005–2007 Immunotherapy of leukemia
Ken Sakurai (MD/PhD) 2007–2010 Gene expression in human ESC
Satiro De Oliveira (MD) 2008-2010 Immunotherapy of leukemia by myeloid effectors
Francesca Giannoni (PhD) 2008-2010 Immunotherapy for cancer and leukemia
Rafael Ruiz de Assini (PhD) 2010-2011 β-globin gene correction for sickle cell disease
Fabrizia Urbanati (PhD) 2010-2012 β-globin gene correction for sickle cell disease
Sarah Larson (MD) 2011-2013 Immunotherapy for Leukemia
Zulema Romero-Garcia (PhD) 2010 -2014 Gene therapy for sickle cell disease
Kismet Baldwin (MD) 2011 – 2014 Gene transfer to human HSC
Caroline Kuo (MD) 2012 – 2014 Correction of the CD154 gene for X-HIM
Gavin Roach (MD) 2012 – 2014 Clinical trial of sickle cell gene therapy
Carmen Bjurstroem (PhD) 2013-2015 Gene editing in hematopoietic stem cells
Robert Drummond (MD/PhD) 2015-2017 Correction of the sickle cell mutation
Alexandra Miggelbrink, (MD) 2016-2017 CRISPR-mediated gene correction in HSC
Kathryn Bradford 2018-2020 Gene editing for Common Variable Immune Deficiency
Shanna White 2020-2022 Gene Therapy for Sickle Cell Disease

PREVIOUS GRADUATE STUDENTS

Name Years Research Subject
Jan A. Nolta 1994 Growth of human hematopoietic stem cells in immune deficient mice
Pia M. Challita 1994 DNA methylation in gene therapy
Ingrid Bahner 1996 Gene therapy for AIDS
Paul Robbins 1997 Expression by modified retroviral vectors
Sunita Coutinho 2000 Lineage-directed expression by retroviral vectors
Tanja Gruber 2001 Dendritic cells for gene therapy of childhood ALL
Dennis Haas 2003 Lentiviral vectors for transduction of hematopoietic stem cells
Aaron Logan 2004 Immunotherapy for leukemia
Sarah Nightingale 2006 Stable non-viral and viral, non-stable gene transfer to hematopoietic stem cells
Martina Blumenthal 2007 Leukemia Immunotherapy
Teiko Sumiyoshi 2009 Gene transfer to human HSC by the Sleeping Beauty transposon.
Christopher Choi 2009 HSC expansion by manipulation of the beta-catenin pathway.
Eszter Pais, MD 2009 Pancreatic beta cell production and expansion
Denise Sarracino 2009 Gene therapy for ADA-deficient SCID
Alok Joglekar 2013 Zinc Finger Nucleases for ADA Gene Correction
Jennifer Wherley 2013 Gene transfer for sickle cell disease
Eric Gschweng 2015 Immunotherapy for cancer and leukemia
Megan Hoban 2015 Site-specific nucleases for sickle cell gene therapy
Aaron Cooper 2016 Vector integromics
Richard Morgan 2019 Lentiviral vectors for gene therapy for hemoglobinopathies
Katelyn Masiuk 2019 Hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy
Anastasia Lomova 2019 Homology-directed gene repair in HSC
David Gray 2020 Gene correction for X-linked agammaglobulinemia
Nebula Han 2021 Improving Titer and Infectivity of Lentiviral Vectors for Gene and Cell Therapy
Ryan Wong 2021 Bioinformatics-Guided Design of Endogenously Regulated Lentiviral Vectors for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Gene Therapy