Cole Lab

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

Michelle Kim

Project Coordinator