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Ralda Nehme, PhD

Principal Investigator

Ralda Nehme is a principal investigator in the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she also directs the stem cell program. Nehme has received recognition and funding from numerous groups, including the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation, the Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative, the Maternal and Child Health Research Institute at Stanford University, and the National Institute of Mental Health. Nehme received her B.S. at the American University of Beirut. She completed her Ph.D. at Dartmouth College, where she studied neuronal development in C. elegans. She then conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University, where she became interested in modeling psychiatric disease, and developed efficient methods to generate human stem cell-derived neural cells.

Current lab members

Derek Hawes

Lab Manager

Vy Ngo, PhD

Postdoc

Co-mentored with Sami Farhi

Diogo Marques, PhD

Postdoc

Jax Xu, PhD

Postdoc

Co-mentored with Sami Farhi

Rachel Battaglia, PhD

Postdoc

Margaret Ho, PhD

Postdoc

Co-mentored with Evan Macosko

Adrianna Maglieri

Project coordinator

Emily Hansen

Research Associate

and social chair

Akhilsai Damera

Undergraduate student

Carson Schultz

Research Associate

Eliana Luongo

Research Associate

(starting soon!)

Jeeva PremKuma

Research Associate

(starting soon!)

Sofia Ellen Pianco

Summer student

Shawn Chen

Summer high school student

Jenny Klein, PhD

Postdoc

Mentored by Lindy Barrett

Anna Nathanson, PhD

Postdoc

Mentored by Lindy Barrett

Alumni

Milena Andzelm, MD, PhD

Postdoc

Now: Assistant Professor, Boston Children Hospital

Ilinca Mazureac

Research Associate

Now: Graduate student, Cambridge University, UK

Sarah Rojas

Undergraduate student

Now: Medical student, Weill Cornell

Sartaj Habib

Research Associate

Autumn Johnson

Research Associate

Now: PhD candidate, Harvard University

Adhvaith Sridhar

Research Associate

Now: Medical Student, Harvard Medical School

Sonia Bolshakova, MS

Computational Associate

Now: PhD candidate, NYU

Matthew Tegtmeyer, PhD

PhD Student

Now: Assistant Professor, Purdue University

Dhara Liyanage

Undergraduate student

Now: PhD candidate, Weill Cornell

Noah Pettinari

Computational Associate

Connie Yu

Undergraduate student

Now: Medical Student at Tufts University

Isabel Flessas

Undergraduate student

Now: RA, Harvard University

Vera Valakh, PhD

Research Scientist

Now: Principal Scientist,

Stoke Therapeutics

Emily Peirent

Research Associate

Now: Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan

Ethan Crouse

Research Associate

Now: Machine Learning Engineer, S2P Dynamics, Boulder, CO

Hilena Gebre

Research Associate

Now: medical student at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

Kathryn Boit

Undergraduate student

Now: Ph.D. candidate, Yale University

Aditi Trehan

Research Associate

Now: Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University

Theresa Chen

Research Associate

Now: Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington

Autumn Bandy

Summer student, New Mexico State University

Jesus Velazques

Summer student, UCLA

Marina Saffold

Summer student, Pomona College

Sovann Woodin

Summer student, Bunker Hill Community College

Shaday Ricker

Summer student, Bunker Hill Community College

Serwah Danquah

Research Associate

Now: Ph.D. candidate, University of Washington

Isaura Pizano

Student Intern

High school students

Alison Choi

Adhvaith Sridhar

Maria Girgis

Eman Abdurezak

Neena Tarafdar

Isaac Schueng

Siddarth Nirgudkar

Shawn Chen

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