People

Arlene Sharpe

arlene_sharpe@hms.harvard.edu

Kolokotrones University Professor

Chair, Department of Immunology

Vice Director, Gene Lay Institute

Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD is the Kolokotrones University Professor at Harvard University and Chair of the Department of Immunology at Harvard Medical School. She is a Member of the Department of Pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Broad...

Kelly Burke

Postdoctoral fellow

Kelly Burke is a hematology-oncology fellow at the Dana Farber. She earned her MD-PhD at Johns Hopkins, where she studied the human T cell response in hepatitis C viral infection in the lab of Dr. Andrea Cox. She is interested in the adaptive immune...

Baolin Chang

Research assistant

One of the longest serving members of Sharpe laboratory, Baolin Chang prepares mouse tail DNA, assists with colony maintenance, and helps oversee equipment maintenance. Baolin's second job is as a bakery/coffee shop owner, making the best classic style...

Thomas Conway

Graduate Student

Undergraduate student (2020-2021)

In Sharpe Lab, Thomas studies the role of PD-1 and CTLA-4 in regulating T cell responses to tumors. In his free time, Thomas enjoys sailing, playing music alongside his friends, or going to a concert.

Naomi Goldman

Postdoctoral fellow

Naomi earned her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in the laboratory of Dr. Golnaz Vahedi where she studied epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in T cell development and function. Her thesis work focused on identifying an intrinsically...

Louise Groton

Research assistant

Louise went to Northeastern University where she majored in Bioengineering and Biochemistry and graduated in 2024. Louise works on three projects in the Sharpe Lab spanning viral immunology, cancer immunology, and autoimmunity. Louise hopes to continue...

James Han

Postdoctoral fellow

James is a joint post-doctoral fellow in Drs. Arlene Sharpe and Marcia Haigis laboratories. He completed his BSc at McMaster University, and MSc and PhD at the University of Toronto. Under the supervision of Dr. Pamela Ohashi, his doctoral research...

Kaeden Hill

Rotation Student

Kaeden is a PhD student in the immunology program at HMS. He is interested in studying how cellular metabolism affects the phenotypes and functions of immune cells. He graduated from Duke University with a BS in cell and molecular biology, where he...

Sarah Hillman

sarah_hillman at hms.harvard.edu

Executive Assistant

Sarah Hillman provides administrative support to Dr. Arlene Sharpe, the Sharpe lab, the Department of Immunology at HMS, and the Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation at HMS, BWH, and MGH, qualifying her for the unofficial title of...

Martin LaFleur

Postdoctoral fellow

Martin LaFleur previously worked on a nanoparticle-based drug delivery platform for combatting drug resistance in the laboratories of Richard Partch and Craig Woodworth at Clarkson University. In the Sharpe lab, Marty is studying ways to engineer immune...

Ashlyn Lemmen

Research assistant

Ashlyn received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in cell and molecular biology through the Accelerated Master’s Program (AMP) from the University of Alabama. While there, she studied the expression of dnmt genes and the role of sumoylation on MTF-1 in...

Amy Li

Amy Li is a pediatric hematology-oncology fellow at Dana Farber/ Boston Children’s Hospital. She earned her MD/PhD at Harvard Medical School and MIT where she studied regulatory T cells in the lung tumor microenvironment in Tyler Jacks’ lab. She is...