Principal Investigator
Dr. Phil Cole
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
Dr. Hanjie Jiang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Hanjie received his B.S. and M.S. from Peking University. He then earned a Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University.
Dr. Maheeshi Yapa Abeywardana
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maheeshi earned her Ph.D. from Wayne State University.
Dr. Sam Whedon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Sam received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Washington in the lab of Champak Chatterjee.
Dr. Zhipeng A. Wang
Postdoctoral Fellow
Zhipeng received his B.S. degree from Tsinghua University working with Prof. Lei Liu, and his Ph.D. from the Texas A&M University in the lab of Dr. Wenshe R. Liu.
Dr. Amanda Waterbury
Postdoctoral Fellow
Amanda received her B.S. in chemistry from the University of Chicago and then earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University in the lab of Professor Liau.
Dr. Eunju Nam
Postdoctoral Fellow
Eunju earned her Ph.D. from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in the lab of Professor Mi Hee Lim.
Dr. Kwangwoon (Jon) Lee
Postdoctoral Fellow
Jon received his Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in the lab of Ronnie Ghose.
Graduate Students
Hyojeon Kim
Graduate Student, Harvard Chemical Biology Program
Hyojeon obtained her B.A. in chemistry and mathematics at Amherst College.
Maggie Chen
Graduate Student, Harvard Chemistry and Chemical Biology Program
Maggie received her B.S. in Biochemistry from UCLA (2019), where she conducted research in computational chemistry under the supervision of Prof. K. N. Houk.
Reina Iwase
Graduate Student, Harvard Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program
Reina received her B.A. and M.A from Boston University.
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 […]
Undergraduate Students
Adelina Andrei
Undergraduate Student
Adelina is an undergraduate at Harvard College with a double major in Chemistry and Mathematics.
Nouraldeen Ibrahim
Undergraduate Student
Nouraldeen is an undergraduate student at Harvard College concentrating in Chemical and Physical Biology.
Lab Personnel
