NORA BARRETT, MD

Nora is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Director of Research Training in the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She joined the faculty after completing training in Pulmonary Medicine and Allergy Immunology. Her clinical interest is severe asthma. Her research interests are to define the innate immune networks that underpin disease in the respiratory tract.

CAELYN JARRETT POETZ, B.S.

Caelyn is a Master’s student in the Harvard Immunology program who joined the lab in the spring of 2025. Originally from Massachusetts, she graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University with a B.S. in Aerospace Physiology with a focus in chemistry and applied psychology. She works at a hospital on the North Shore while not in the lab, and her current research interests include the role of macrophages and mast cells in allergic disease.

Michael Mandanas

Michael is a PhD student in the Immunology Program at Harvard who joined the lab in the summer of 2023. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a Bachelor of Science in Biological Engineering with a minor in Computer Science in May of 2022. His previous research was focused on antigen presentation in the context of HIV, and he is currently investigating metabolic changes observed in type 2 inflammation.

XIN WANG, PHD

Xin is an Instructor at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He joined the laboratory in 2019 after completing his PhD in molecular biology at Southern Illinois University, studying intestinal immunology in inflammatory bowel disease. His current research interest is airway basal cell development and remodeling in type 2 inflammatory diseases.

MINKYU LEE, PHD

Minkyu is a research fellow at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his PhD from Seoul National University College of Medicine in March of 2020, studying airway epithelial remodeling and hypoxia-driven cancer. He joined the laboratory in November of 2020 and his current research interest is the biology of airway brush cells and their regulation by G protein-coupled receptors.

GEORGE X. HUANG, MD

George is an Instructor Medicine within the Allergy & Immunology division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Biomedical Engineering in 2012 and completed medical school in the division of Health Sciences & Technology at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. He then finished residency in Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in 2020 prior to starting his fellowship in Allergy & Immunology. George is interested in using quantitative approaches to better understand the pathophysiology of allergic disease.

AMELIA MALONEY

Amelia is an administrative assistant who joined the Allergy and Immunology Division in August 2022. She graduated from Southern New Hampshire University with a Master’s Degree in Communication with a concentration in New Media and Marketing. In her free time, she enjoys reading, trying new restaurants, and spending time with family and friends.

ALUMNI

Dan Dwyer, PhD
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, BWH
Lora Bankova, MD
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, BWH
Saltanat Ualiyeva, MD, MMSc
Former Postdoctoral Fellow, BWH
Pathology Resident, Tufts University
Matt Gianetti, MD
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, BWH

Min Lee, MD
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Attending Physician, Hoag Medical Group
Matthew Parsons, MD
Former Research Technician
Fellow, University of Utah
James Fernandez, MD, PhD
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Faculty, Cleveland Clinic
Opu Rahman, PA
Former Research Technician
Physician’s Assistant, Touro College
Sachin Samuchiwal PhD
Former Research Technician
Current Senior Scientist at Third Harmonic Bio
Kelly Zheng, BA MMSc
Former Research Technician
MD Student at University of Connecticut

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