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Lee Lab People

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Rich Lee seeks to understand heart failure and metabolic diseases that accompany human aging, and translate that understanding into therapies. Lee is an active clinician, regularly treating patients at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Elisabeth is the Research Lab Manager for the Lee Lab.

Timothy Fenn is a faculty assistant, supporting Lee, McKinley, and Strominger Labs. He has a BA in Humanities from New York University, and in his off time enjoys books, music and basketball

Postdoctoral Fellows

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Junya is focused on differentiation of vascularized myocardium from human induced pluripotent stem cells for future clinical use.

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Sezin is currently working on unraveling how Arrestin genes impact carbohydrate metabolism.

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Alexander is focused on identifying the causal role of mitochondrial DNA mutations in aging and cardiovascular disease, as well as the development of therapeutic interventions to restore or improve mitochondrial function and disease outcomes.

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Tomohiro is currently focused on the mechanism of GDF8/11.

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Nivedhitha is focused on developing mature cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells for future clinical translation.

Research Assistants

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Megan is investigating the role and molecular mechanisms of alpha arrestin domain-containing protein (ARRDC4 and Txnip) on glucose metabolism in vivo and ex vivo.

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Anthony is studying the role of the complement system in heart regeneration.

Visiting Scholar

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Ryan is studying the structural biochemistry of GDF11.

Graduate Students

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Fang is focused on developing immune-compatible mature cardiomyocytes from iPSC and understanding biological underpinnings of cardiovascular disease through analysis of myocardial transcriptomics.

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Yijun is a G3 graduate student in the Lee Lab. She studies identified and novel DNA adducts in mammalian cells by defining their structure, formation, and repair mechanisms.

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Eve is interested in human genetics and is working on identifying the causative role of mitochondrial DNA mutations in aging and cardiovascular disease using mature cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.

Undergraduate Students

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Morgan works on different projects in the lab with the focus of developing mature cardiomyocytes derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells for future treatment of cardiac disease.

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Jeanna is studying how small molecule treatments help develop mature cardiomyocytes derived from induced pluripotent stem cells.

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Jake is a member of the lab’s metabolism team investigating how alpha-arrestins regulate glucose metabolism.

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Justis is currently working on the mechanism of GDF8 and GDF11.

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Yu Jun is working on developing mature cardiomyocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells to help study the causes of mitochondrial mutations.

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