DAS LAB - Key Persons
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- Senior Scientist, Sanofi Inc
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- Clinical Research Coordinator
I am a clinical research coordinator working under Dr. Das as part of the ReACT (Resynchronization and Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics) team.
I graduated from Middlebury College where I received bachelor's degrees in Molecular Biology & Biochemistry and Music. Currently, I am helping the Das lab with sample collection and organization for his research studies on biomarkers of heart failure.
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- Broad Institute, Senior Scientist
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- Post Doctoral Research Fellow
I am working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dr. Saumya Das's lab.
I earned my PhD from the Department of Zoology at the University of Calcutta, India where I studied the role of exercise on heart and the effect of discontinuation of exercise on heart at the molecular level. In Dr. Das's lab I'm excited to continue similar lines of investigation while broadening my scope to include the role of extracellular RNAs as biomarkers in heart failure and how these are changed with exercise.
Along with this, I am also studying the role of adipose-derived exosomes in mediating insulin resistance and cardiac phenotypes and the role of circulating extracellular vesicles as potential biomarkers of kidney diseases using tissue on chip platforms.
Outside of the lab, I love reading, doing calligraphy, painting, and exploring new places.
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- Global Training Manager at Cellink AB, Sweden
I am an instructor in Dr. Saumya Das's lab.
I graduated from Tongji University (Shanghai, China) where I earned my doctoral degree in Biology, with specific focus on the roles of non-coding RNAs in embryonic development and modeling human diseases using patient-derived iPSCs.
In Dr. Das's lab, I am super interested in the regulation and functional roles of tRNA-derived small RNAs (tDRs) in both tissues (cells) and circulation (extracellular vesicles or ribonucleoproteins) during cardiac remodeling and interested in engineering extracellular vesicles as drug-delivery vehicles or therapies against various diseases.
Outside the lab, I love reading, gardening, and fishing.
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- Post Doctoral Research Fellow
I am a third year Cardiology Fellow in Saumya Das' laboratory.
I am interested in investigating long-noncoding RNAs as new biomarkers for cardiovascular disease. I graduated from medical school at the Otto-von-Guericke University (Germany) in 2011 and subsequently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Mayo Clinic.
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- Clinical Research Coordinator
I am a clinical research coordinator working under Dr. Das and the ReACT team.
I graduated from Wesleyan University where I majored in Neuroscience and Behavior. Currently, I am assisting the Das Lab with fat and plasma collection to examine the relationship between circulating biomarkers of metabolism in obese patients before and after bariatric surgery.
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- Senior Lecturer, Univ of Otago, New Zealand
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- Georgetown Teaching Professor
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- Post Doctoral Research Fellow
I am Michail. I graduated from National and Kapodistrian University (MD).
In 2016, I completed an interventional cardiology elective training program in Mount-Sinai Hospital, NYC, as well as a 3-month laboratory training program at the Center for Translational Medicine in Temple University, Philadelphia.
Before the pandemic, in December 2018 I started my PhD focusing on cardiovascular clinical trials and the usage of cardiovascular risk stratification scores in everyday practice.
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- Scientist II, Vesigen Therapeutics
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- Medical Student, Brown University Medical School
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- Post - Doctoral Fellow, BIDMC
I graduated from MIT with a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, and then completed my DVM and veterinary cardiology residency at Tufts University.
I am currently an Associate Professor at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University. I see veterinary patients (mostly cats and dogs) with heart diseases at the Tufts University Foster Hospital for Small Animals.
In my collaborative work with Dr. Das, I investigate the role of non-coding RNA, including microRNA, in canine heart diseases, including mitral valve prolapse, and cancer treatment-associated cardiovascular toxicity. I am also working to validate the pet dog as a translational large animal model for people with these same type of heart conditions.