Shiladitya Sengupta, M.Sc., Ph.D. Assistant Professor Harvard Medical School, and Director of the Laboratory for Translational Medicine. He obtained his bachelors with honors and masters from the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, where he received the Geeta Mital Gold Medal. He then went to Trinity College, University of Cambridge as a British Chevening and Nehru Scholar for his PhD in pharmacology. His postdoctoral training was in biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has received the Shakuntala Amir Chand Prize from the Indian Council for Medical Research and the Young Investigator award from the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. He is a recipient of the TR35 Innovator Award from the MIT Technology Review Magazine and the Era of Hope Scholar Award from the US Department of Defense, and has supervised several best student paper awards at recent conferences.
Aaron Goldman, Ph.D. Instructor in Medicine and faculty member Harvard Medical School and Associate Bioengineer at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the Division of Engineering in Medicine. Aaron is leading the Drug Resistance Group in the Laboratory for Translational Medicine.
Aaron has been in the field of cancer biology and translational medicine research for more than 16 years. Aaron received his PhD in cancer biology and medical pharmacology as an NIH scholar from the Arizona Cancer Center at the University of Arizona in 2010. In 2011 he moved to Harvard Medical School as an American Cancer Society scholar where he pursued a 4 year post-doctoral fellowship with the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Division and was a Spin Odyssey awardee. He is now Breast Cancer Alliance Young Investigator and faculty member at Harvard Medical School. Aaron’s research in his Drug Resistance Group has led to several international patents, globally-recognized peer-reviewed publications in the area of cancer therapy resistance and intratumoral heterogeneity. Aaron is an invited lecturer, internationally. In addition to his work in science, Aaron has served alongside Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona as a congressional intern and is currently a legislative ambassador for the American Cancer Society, and is known to fight Muay Thai from time to time!
Ashish Kulkarni Ph.D. Ashish received his B. Tech. in Chemical Technology from Institute of Chemical Technology, University of Mumbai (formerly known as UDCT). He worked as a Process Engineer in the product and process development division in a rubber chemicals company in Mumbai for three years. Prior to joining the Sengupta Laboratory, he completed his PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Cincinnati.