Principal Investigator
Philip A. Cole, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Senior Investigator Division of Genetics
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Phil Cole graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1984 and then spent a year as a Churchill Scholar at the University of Cambridge. Cole went on to obtain M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Johns Hopkins where he pursued research in bioorganic chemistry in 1991. Cole then entered clinical and post-doctoral training […]
Postdoctoral Fellows
Sam Whedon, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sam received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Washington in the lab of Champak Chatterjee.
Eunju Nam, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eunju earned her Ph.D. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the lab of Dr. Mi Hee Lim.
David Miyamoto, Ph. D.
Postdoctoral fellow
David received his B.S. from U.C. Berkeley and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in the lab of Dr. Christina Woo.
Graduate Students
Hyojeon Kim
Graduate Student, Harvard Chemical Biology Program
Hyojeon obtained her B.A. in chemistry and mathematics at Amherst College.
Sarah Dubois-Coyne
Graduate Student, Harvard Chemical Biology Program
Sarah obtained her Bachelor’s Degree at UMass, Boston.
Tim O’Meara
Graduate Student, Harvard Chemical Biology Program
Tim received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from Harvard (2020), where he conducted research on protein O-GlcNAcylation in the lab of Dr. Christina Woo and on the genetic and proteomic underpinnings of neurofibromatosis type 1 under the supervision of Dr. James Walker. Prior to graduate school, he developed and evaluated adjuvanted vaccines in the Precision […]
Jennifer Jiang
Graduate student, Harvard Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology Program
Jennifer received her B.Eng. in Bioengineering from McGill University in 2023, during which she conducted research in protein engineering, synthetic biology, viral vector production, and microscopy image analysis.
Selin Bacaksiz
Graduate student, Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Program
Selin received her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Tufts University in 2024. At Tufts, she conducted research in the lab of Prof. Krishna Kumar, where she worked on developing GLP-1 peptide analogs that would constitutively activate their receptor and intein splicing inhibition of M. tuberculosis with small molecules.
Cynthia Chang
Graduate Student, Harvard Chemical Biology Program
Cynthia obtained her B.A. in Chemistry at Washington University in St. Louis in 2024. At WashU, in Dr. Meredith Jackrel’s lab, she studied misfolded proteins found in S. aureus biofilms and screened for protein disaggregases to disrupt these biofilms.
Undergraduate Students
Nouraldeen Ibrahim
Undergraduate Student
Nouraldeen is an undergraduate student at Harvard College concentrating in Chemical and Physical Biology.