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Huilin Shao

2013 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Biosensor Platforms for Molecular Analyses of Circulating Cancer Biomarkers PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Ralph Weissleder, Massachusetts General Hospital

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Sichen Susan Shao, Ph.D.

sichen_shao@hms.harvard.edu

Associate Professor of Cell Biology, Harvard Medical School

We aim to understand the molecular mechanisms that determine the fate of new proteins using in vitro reconstitution, cell biology, and structural biology approaches. Protein biosynthesis is a complex process encompassing translation, protein folding and...

Jacob (Jake) Shapiro

3rd Year Graduate Student in Biophysics

Stanley Yang Shaw

1995 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: DNA Knotting In Vitro and In Vivo PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. James Wang, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University

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William M. Shih

william.shih @ wyss.harvard.edu

Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Professor, Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Founding Core Faculty, Wyss Institute at Harvard University

Research in the Shih laboratory focuses on design of self-assembling biomolecular machines and their diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Tools For Molecular Biophysics: NMR Structure Determination of Membrane Proteins An outstanding problem in...

Frederick Shipley

2020 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Tracking Immune Cells at the Choroid Plexus Blood-Cerebrospinal Fluid Interface PhD Dissertation Advisor(s): Dr. Mark Andermann and Dr. Maria Lehtinen, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Department of Medicine, Beth...

Irina Shlosman

2025 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Unifying regulatory mechanism of bacterial cell wall synthesis PhD Dissertation Advisors: Dr. Joseph Loparo and Dr. Andrew Kruse, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

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Laurence Alan Shumway

2007 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Evolution of Altered Signaling in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Andrew W. Murray, Dept. of Molecular & Cellular Biology, Harvard University

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Samuel Kwok-Ki Sia

2002 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Rational Design of Peptide Inhibitors of HIV-1 Entry PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Peter S. Kim, Dept. of Biology, Whitehead Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Ulrich Klaus Siebenlist

1980 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Dissertation Title: Molecular Details of RNA Polymerase-Promotor Interaction PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Walter Gilbert, Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Harvard University

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Donald Siegel, PhD, MD

1983 PhD Graduate in Biophysics

Professor of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

Director, Division of Transfusion Medicine & Therapeutic Pathology

Director, Clinical Cell & Vaccine Production Facility

Director, Fellowship Program in Transfusion Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

Dissertation Title: Human Erythrocyte Band 4.9 PhD Dissertation Advisor: Dr. Daniel Branton, Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, Harvard University Current & Past Activities: After graduating from the Biophysics Program in 1983, I moved to...

Pamela A. Silver

pamela_silver@hms.harvard.edu

Elliot T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

The Silver Lab seeks to enhance our understanding of natural biological design, and to develop tools and concepts for designing cells, tissues and organisms. What can we build with biology? We use a synthetic biology approach to understanding biological...