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Dale T. Umetsu, MD, PhD
The Prince Turki al-Saud Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School Department of Pediatrics
To learn more about Dr. Dale Umetsu click here: Dale Umetsu, M.D., Ph.D.
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Rosemarie H. DeKruyff, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
Harvard Medical School Department of Pediatrics
Dr. Rosemarie DeKruyff recently relocated to Children's Hospital Boston's Division of Immunology from Stanford University. She has been on a research journey that may yield a biological explanation for the hygiene hypothesis and possibly an approach to preventing asthma.
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Omid Akbari, PhD
Assistant Professor
Harvard School of Medicine
Dr. Akbari graduated from the University College London, (UK) and received his Masters and diploma in General and Medical Microbiology. In 1998 he obtained his PhD from the division of Molecular Immunology at the National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK. He performed postdoctoral work at Stanford University, were he was promoted to senior research scientist. Dr. Akbari is currently Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Children's Hospital of Boston, division of Immunology. To learn more about Dr. Omid Akbari click on this link: Omid Akbari, Ph.D.
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Lee Albacker, PhD Candidate
PhD Graduate Student: DMS Program on Immunology
Mr. Albacker is a graduate student at Harvard University School of Medicine studying Immunology. He joined the lab in January of 2006, interested in the role of NKT cells in asthma. Mr. Albacker's other research interests include tolerance and aspects of the immune response that occur outside of lymph nodes.
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Ya-Jen Chang, PhD
Research Fellow
Dr. Ya-Jen Chang received her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from College of Medicine at National Taiwan University, Taiwan in Jan 2005. The title of her thesis is "Infection induced inflammation and carcinogenesisroles". She is primarily interested in investigating the signal transduction pathways regarding cancer biology, infectious disease, and immuno-modulation issues. Through 2005 to 2008, she joined Dr. Alice L. Yu's lab at the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, as a postdoctoral researcher. She evaluated and investigated several novel synthetic NKT-stimulatory glycolipids. After that, she moved to Boston and joined the lab of Dr. Dale T. Umetsu at Children's Hospital of Boston in May 2008 to continue her postdoctoral training. She now works on the issues regarding asthma, with special focus on immuno-modulatory role of NKT.
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Yee-Ling Elaine Chim, BS
Research Technician
Ms. Yee-Ling Elaine Chim has been a Research Assistant for Dr. Umetsu's lab since June of 2006. She received her B.A. cum laude in Biology in May 2006 from Boston University, where she was recognized as a Boston Scholar and awarded a four-year full-tuition scholarship. During her undergraduate study, Ms. Chim had been working in the Biomedical Engineering Department of Boston University to construct a database to investigate how genomic DNA instability contributes to multifactorial diseases like schizophrenia that are linked to both genetic and environmental factors. Ms. Chim plans to further her biological science research study in the coming years.
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Gwang-Cheon Jang, MD, PhD
Research Fellow
Dr. Gwang-Cheon Jang is a Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School. Dr. Jang received his MD in 1993 and his PhD in 2008 from Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. His PhD title is Effect of CpGODNs on the airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation of repeated RSV infection mouse model. Dr. Jangs research interest is asthma and allergic diseases. His projects include study in the preventative mechanisms of oxidative stress in asthma pathophysiology and NKT cells in milk allergy desensitization.
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Hye Young Kim, PhD
Research Fellow
Dr. Hye Young Kim got her PhD at Seoul National University College of Medicine at South Korea in 2006. Upon receiving her PhD, she joined the Umetsu Lab in October 2006. The title of her thesis is "The roles of NKT cells in antibody induced arthritis." Dr. Kim's research interest concerns the study about the relationship between Tim molecules on NKT cell and hepatitis A.
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Hyun-Hee Lee, PhD
Research Fellow
Dr. Hyun-Hee Lee got his PhD at University of Missouri-Columbia in 2007. The title of his thesis is "Immunity in the Newborn: Control by IL-13 Receptor and Dendritic Cells ." He joined the Umetsu Lab in July 2007. Dr. Lee's research interest concerns the study about the relationship between Tim molecules on NKT cell and asthma.
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Ponpan Matangkasombut, MD
SD Candidate
Dr. Ponpan Matangkasombut received her MD degree from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. She finished her residency training in Internal Medicine from the MetroWest
Medical Center, Massachusetts and Fellowship training in Allergy and Clinical Immunology from National
Jewish Medical and Research Center in Colorado. Dr. Matangkasombut is currently an Immunology graduate student in the Doctor of Science program at the Harvard School of Public Health. She joined Umetsu lab in January 2006. Her research interest is in the role of NKT cells in Asthma.
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Muriel Pichavant, PhD
Research Fellow
Dr. Muriel Pichavant is a Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Pichavant is also an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and joined the Umetsu lab in January 2005. She obtained her PhD degree in Immunology from Université de Lille II, France, in 2004. Dr. Pichavant's PhD thesis was done at INSERM U416, Institut Pasteur de Lille, France. Her PhD Title is "Crosstalk between Airway Epithelial Cells and Dendritic Cells during airway sensitization".
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Veronica Shaw, BS
Research Technician
Ms. Veronica Shaw graduated from Brandeis University with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Biology. While at Brandeis she worked in a cell biology lab where she studied program cell death. Ms. Shaw completed her research with a thesis on some of the specific mechanisms of thiamin depletion and apoptosis. After working in the Umetsu lab, she would like to further her education in the field of immunology and continue working in research.
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Sheena Tin, MS
Research Technician
Ms. Sheena Tin received her Masters Degree in Cellular and Molecular Physiology from Loyola University Chicago, in 2008. Her thesis work was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Ruben Mestril and focused on the cardioprotective effects of HSP27 during reperfusion injury in the heart.
She then worked as a research assistant in the lab of Dr. Donald Bers, focusing on cellular and molecular factors involved in the control of cardiac muscle contraction. She moved to Boston in April 2008 with an interest in immunology and joined Dr. Umetsu's lab at Children's Hospital of Boston as a Research Assistant in May 2008.
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