Joshua Boyce, M.D., Professor in Medicine at HMS and Senior Investigator at BWH
Dr. Boyce is the Albert L. Sheffer Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the chief of the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He has done pioneering work on the mechanisms by which lipid mediators of inflammation control airway function and mast cell responses in type 2 immunity and aspirin sensitivity. His research has been continuously funded by NIH since 1995, and he currently holds two R01 grants, an R37, and a U19. Dr. Boyce also leads one of the most successful NIH-funded research training programs in Allergy and Immunology. He has trained over 25 postdocs who have gone on to successful academic or industry careers. was the recipient of the 2020 Mentoring Award from the AAAAI, chaired the NIH-chartered Food Allergy Guideline Committee, and has been an Associate Editor at JACI since 2005.
Jun Nagai, Ph.D., Assistant Professor In Medicine at HMS and Investigator at BWH
Jun obtained his PhD in Pharmaceutical sciences at Nagasaki University before completing a postdoctoral fellowship in Pharmacology. He came to the lab in 2016 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and was promoted to the faculty in 2019 as an Instructor. Dr. Nagai focuses on the molecular mechanisms involved in cysteinyl leukotriene receptor and purinergic receptor signaling pathways, and their role in the pathophysiology of type 2 immunopathology in the airway. He was recently awarded an R21 grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease to support his studies.
Barbara Balestrieri, M.D., Assistant Professor in Medicine at HMS and Senior Investigator at BWH
Barbara completed her MD and her fellowship training in Allergy and Immunology at the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy before coming to the division for a postdoctoral fellowship. She joined the faculty in 2006. She is an expert in the role of bioactive lipids in innate and adaptive immune responses, with a special expertise in macrophage biology. She is currently funded through an R56 award.
Dinah Foer, M.D., Instructor in Medicine at HMS and Investigator at BWH
Dinah, obtained her M.D. at Yale and trained in both Internal Medicine and Allergy/Immunology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital before joining the faculty in 2020. Her work focuses on the role of the glucagon like peptide receptor-1 pathway in metabolic homeostasis and platelet-driven airway inflammation in asthmatic patients with type 2 diabetes. She was awarded a Brigham and Women’s Hospital Pilot Grant to support her studies, and was the recipient of first prize for her presentation at the 2020 National Jewish Health Young Investigator’s Forum.
Hiroaki Hayashi, M.D., Ph.D., Research Fellow at HMS and BWH
Dr. Hayashi obtained his MD from Gifu University, Gifu, Japan, and his PhD in medicine at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan; and National Hospital Organization Sagamihara National Hospital, Sagamihara, Japan. He completed training in Allergy and Immunology prior to arriving in the lab to begin a postdoctoral fellowship in 2020. Dr. Hayashi is studying the molecular mechanisms of aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD), with a particular focus on the role of platelet-adherent eosinophils in the control of airway pathology and interleukin 33 production.
Omar Samir Ahmed, DVM, MSc, PhD, Research Fellow at HMS and BWH
Dr. Omar holds a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) degree and a Master of Science (MSc) in Pathology from Mansoura University, Egypt. He furthered his education by completing a PhD in medical sciences at the University of Tsukuba, Japan, in 2023, where his doctoral work earned him the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award and the Young Investigator Award.
He joined in 2023 to work in the ACI DIVISION in my laboratory with me as mentor on research focused on understanding how lipid mediators of inflammation regulate the innate arm of type 2 immunity. By utilizing unbiased techniques with human tissue and animal models, he addresses pivotal questions to identify crucial functions of lipid mediators such as prostaglandins (PGs) and cysteinyl leukotrienes (cysLTs), and their receptors in controlling various cellular processes, and explore the impact of genetic and epigenetic factors on mucosal pathology and disease development.
Sreyashi Majumdar, M.Sc., Ph.D., Research Fellow at HMS and BWH
Sreyashi obtained her Master’s degree (M.Sc.) in Microbiology (Gold Medallist) and PhD in Biophysics, Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Calcutta, India. She conducted her PhD research at Bose Institute, India where her doctoral work earned her the Outstanding Student Award. She joined the Boyce lab in 2022 as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Majumdar focuses on the regulatory role of prostaglandins and their receptor signaling pathways in Type 2 airway inflammatory diseases like allergic asthma and aspirin exacerbated respiratory disease (AERD) in animal models and animal/human cell culture systems.
Panisara Meechan, Research Scientist at BWH
Chunli(Lily) Feng, M.D., Research Specialist at BWH
Lily has been a research specialist for Dr. Boyce’s lab for many years. She is an experienced technician, fluent in the proposed ELISA and flow cytometry techniques. Lily also does maintenance of the mouse strains, and the performance of functional assays on the samples collected from the in vivo experiments for Dr. Boyce’s Lab.
Airi Nishida, Senior Research Technician at BWH
Madeline Hastings, Research Technician at BWH
Graduates:
Tanya M. Laidlaw, M.D., Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Chief, Clinical and Translational Research Section, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Katherine Cahill, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Asthma Clinical Research, Vanderbilt University
Sailaja Paruchuri, PhD. Professor of Medicine, University of Toledo, College of Medicine and Life Sciences
Kathleen Buchheit, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Director, Brigham and Women’s Hospital AERD Center
Dinah Foer, M.D., Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Larry Borish, MD, Professor of Internal Medicine, Asthma & Allergic Diseases Center, Division of Asthma, Allergy and Immunology, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA
Hey Jin Chong, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Chief, Division of Allergy and Immunology, Pittsburgh Children’s Hospital
Juan Carlos Cardet, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of South Florida
Qian Yuan, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Timothy Kyin, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Virginia
Haley Cirka, Research Assistant Neuroscience, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Anya Cutler, Postdoctoral Fellow, Emory University
Denise M. Garofalo, MD, Resident in Surgery, University of Colorado
Giorgio Giannattasio, MD, Senior Medical Manager at Biogen Idec Italia, Milan Area, Italy
Yongfeng Jiang, MD, PhD, Research Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals
Anders Lundequist, PhD, Postdoc, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
Samridhi Nallamshetty, MD, Allergist, Wesley Chapel, FL
Hiroyuki Tashimo, MD, PhD, Pulmonologist, National Hospital Organization Kochi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan
Shin Ohta, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Allergy and Respiratory Medicine, Showa University, School of Medicine
Katherine Murphy, Medical Student, Quinnipiac University
Hannah Raff, Medical Student, Rush University
Molly Kidder, MD, Pediatrician, Tampa, FLA
Dingxin Pan, PhD, Research Associate, King’s College, London, UK
Nidia DeJesus, MD, PhD, Plastic Surgeon, Miami, FLA
Laura Fanning, MD, Senior Medical Director, Global Medical Safety, Biogen
Hannah Cummings, Ph.D. Medical Director and Product Lead, Medical Strategy at Alkermes
