PROGRAM IN
Cellular & Molecular Medicine
PCMM Director
Taekjip Ha, PhD
Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine (PCMM); Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
George D. Yancopoulos, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics in honor of Frederick W. Alt, PhD, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Genome maintenance, chromatin biophysics and mechanobiology.
PCMM Investigators
Frederick Alt , PhD
Director Emeritas and Associate Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital
Charles A. Janeway Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Antigen receptor diversification, HIV-1 vaccine development, genomic instability and cancer.
Michael Carroll, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics and Co-Director of Master of Medical Sciences in Immunology, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: B cell escape of tolerance; mechanisms underlying schizophrenia; complement and neuroinflammation; mitochondrial metabolism and BBB leakage.
Anne Goldfeld, MD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Physician, Infectious Disease Division, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Research Focus: TNF locus transcriptional regulation, immunity to human TB and HIV/TB co-infection
Sun Hur, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular & Molecular Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Oscar M. Schloss, MD Professor of Pediatrics; Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Molecular mechanism of foreign nucleic acid sensing and transcriptional regulation of the immune system.
Tomas Kirchhausen, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Springer Family Chair; Professor of Cell Biology and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Organelle biogenesis and membrane trafficking, intracellular delivery routes for biologics, and amyloid propagation through cells and tissues.
Julia Li, PhD
Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Role of viral DNA sequences in shaping the human genome.
Judy Lieberman, MD, PhD
Endowed Chair in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Professor of Pediatrics and Adjunct Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Innate immunity and T cell and NK immunity to infection and cancer; development of RNA and small molecule therapeutics to modify inflammation and induce cancer immunity.
Jeffrey Moffitt, PhD
Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Novel genome-scale imaging methods for understanding host-microbe interactions.
Sua Myong, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
C. H. Waddington Professor of Pediatrics and Special Affiliate Faculty, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Single molecule detection of protein-nucleic acid interaction, biomolecular condensation.
Timothy A. Springer, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Latham Family Professor; Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Signaling between cells and their environments, including through integrins, TGF-beta and growth factors, that regulates cell development and localization.
Denisa Wagner, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Edwin Cohn Chair; Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Molecular and cellular biology of thromboinflammation and animal models of inflammation spread by neutrophils.
Wesley Wong, PhD
Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Physical interactions of biomolecules under mechanical stress, and the development of nanoscale and single-molecule methods.
Hao Wu, PhD
Senior Investigator and Associate Director, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine
Asa and Patricia Springer Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Structure and function of innate immune and inflammatory signaling complexes.
Yi Zhang, PhD
Senior Investigator, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Fred S. Rosen Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School
Research Focus: Chromatin mediated transcriptional regulation in stem cells reprograming, embryonic development, brain reward and aging.
Research Core Staff
Harry Leung, MS
Director, Microscopy Core
Viraga Haridas, PhD
Core Director, Flow and Imaging Cytometry Resource
Vandana Nandivada, MSc
Research Technologist, Flow and Imaging Cytometry Resource
