Meet The Team
Principal Investigator
Avanish Mishra
Instructor, Center for Engineering in Medicine and Surgery
Affiliate Faculty, Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research
Department of Surgery
MGH, Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA, 02129
Doctoral Student (Co-mentored with Toner Lab)
Adriana Payan-Medina
Adriana is a PhD student and NSF GRFP fellow in the Health Sciences and Technology (HST) program at Harvard and MIT. She earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Utah, where she conducted medical informatics research. During her undergraduate studies, Adriana used machine learning to understand exposure and health outcome relationships, developed an atom tracing module, and performed scRNA-seq analysis for autoimmune diseases. Building on this computational background, she now aims to advance microfluidic devices for tumor cell analysis and enhance computational approaches within the field. Beyond her research, she enjoys yoga and biking.
Research Technician
Victor Putaturo
Coming soon
Postdoctoral Fellow
Maheen Rana
Coming soon
Research Technician
Quinn Cunneely
Quinn joined CEMS in 2023 after receiving his BS in Microbiology from the University of Alabama. Quinn utilizes novel microfluidic technologies to understand how cancer responds to targeted therapies. His undergraduate research work included CRISPR-based bacterial defense systems and the nature of environmental microbial metabolites and their role in neurodegenerative diseases. Outside of the lab, he is an avid runner and cyclist and loves to cook with friends and family.
Research Technician
Remy Bell
Remy completed his BS in Biomedical Engineering at the University of South Carolina. Remy has previously worked on organ-on-a-chip devices and electrochemical biosensors. At CEMS, he will be advancing microfluidic cellular technologies for applications in cancer diagnostics, immunotherapy monitoring, and cell and gene therapy manufacturing. In his free time, Remy enjoys reading, attending orchestral concerts, learning how to cook, and planning vacations he doesn’t intend to go on.
Collaborators
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