People

Stefan Bassler

stefan_bassler@hms.harvard.edu

Former Visiting Student from Heidelberg University

Current Position PhD student EMBL-EBI I am looking for ways to combine my interest in infectious diseases, personalized medicine, synthetic biology, medical genomics, digital healthcare and entrepreneurship. Throughout my masters in molecular...

Corinne Bintz

corinne_bintz@hms.harvard.edu

Current Position: Data Scientist at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), Seattle Corinne is an undergraduate student at Middlebury College, majoring in Computer Science and minoring in Global Health. This summer, she is working on data...

Nicoletta Commins

nacommins@g.harvard.edu

Nicoletta is a PhD student in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) program. She received an MPH in Epidemiology from UC Berkeley, where she first became interested in microbial genomics. Her research in the Farhat lab focuses on the evolution and...

Avika Dixit, MBBS MPH

avika.dixit@childrens.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Avika is a pediatric infectious disease fellow at Boston Children's Hospital with training in public health and bioinformatics. Throughout her medical career, she have witnessed firsthand the scourge of tuberculosis that drives her passion for research in...

Akshith "Sonny" Doddi

Former Research Fellow

Current Position: MD candidate University of Virginia Medical School

Yasha Ektefaie

yasha_ektefaie@g.harvard.edu

Graduate Student

Yasha is a PhD student in the BIG Program interested in studying the intersection of machine learning and infectious disease. Specifically using machine learning to leverage the wealth of data being generated by whole genome sequencing technologies. With...

Jessica El Halabi, MD

jessica_elhalabi@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Current Position: Resident in Internal Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic During my clinical years as a medical student, I got to learn a lot about the importance of data science and its impact on medicine. I was driven into the field of biomedical...

Maha Farhat, MD, MSc

maha_farhat@hms.harvard.edu

Gil Omenn Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Dr. Farhat's research focuses on the development and application of methods for associating genotype and phenotype in infectious disease pathogens, with a strong emphasis on translation to better diagnostics and surveillance in resource-poor settings. To...

Gabriel Fregoso

gfregoso@mgh.harvard.edu

Scholar in Medicine

Current Position: Resident in Anesthesia Massachusetts General Hospital Gabriel is a Harvard Medical student working on chart review of patients with non-tuberculosis mycobacterial pulmonary infections. His hope is to better understand how these patients...

Luca Freschi, PhD

luca_freschi@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Informatics

Expected Position: European Centers for Disease Control A bioinformatician who fell in love with evolutionary biology. He enjoys using cutting-edge computational tools to study how microbial genomes work and evolve. Further, he loves to teach! He joined...

Nikhil George

nikhil_george@hms.harvard.edu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Nikhil is a computational biologist with an interest in mobile genetic elements (MGEs). He did his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo, Canada, during which he characterized the genomes and CRISPR-Cas systems of novel bacteriophages. His work in the...

Marwan Ghanem

Marwan (he/him) is a recent medical graduate with previous training in experimental evolutionary microbiology. Marwan is interested in multidisciplinary approaches to infectious disease research. He has a particular research interest in the evolution of...