MD-PhD Class of 2025 - Harvard Medical School
Academic Degrees/PhD Titles/Postgraduate Year Destinations

Elliot Akama-Garren
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2023)
THESIS: T cell help shapes B cell tolerance
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Jacob Anderson
BS, University of Michigan (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (2023)
THESIS: Unveiling the Molecular Architecture of Mammalian Ciliary Doublet Microtubules and Mechanisms of von Willebrand Factor Concatemerization
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Douglas Brown
BS, Boston College (2013)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2022)
THESIS: MFSD7C is an ATP Transporter that Supports Bacterial Killing by Alveolar Macrophages in a Lipid- Rich Microenvironment
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary at Mount Auburn Hospital, Boston, MA

Kaitavjeet Chowdhary
BA, Harvard University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2023)
THESIS: Decoding Regulatory T Cell Transcription Factor Networks: From Identity to Diversity
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, CA

Alissa Campbell Goss
BS, Iowa State University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: TMEDs are differential regulators of mutant membrane proteins
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

Juliana Coraor Fried
BS, Yale University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: FALCON systematically interrogates FFA biology and identifies new mediators of lipotoxicity
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Obstetrics-Gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA

Brian Do
BS, Stanford University (2016)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (2023)
THESIS: Metabolic and genetic factors guiding hematopoietic cell fate
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Kaustav Gopinathan
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2023)
THESIS: Microfluidic Transistors for the Control of Liquids and Particles
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Rahul Gupta
BSE, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: Nuclear genetic control of mitochondrial function and its contribution to human disease: insights at biobank scale
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts
General Hospital, Boston, MA

Zeshan Hussain
BS, Stanford University (2017)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2023)
THESIS: Towards Precision Oncology: A Predictive and Causal Lens
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's
Hospital, Boston, MA

Teshika Jayewickreme
BS, Yale University (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2023)
THESIS: Lymph node stromal cell responses to perinatal T cell waves
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine and Hematology/Oncology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL

Joyce Kang
BS, Stanford University (2018)
PhD, Harvard University in Biomedical Informatics (2023)
THESIS: Integrative analysis of large-scale single-cell genomics data in immune-mediated diseases
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Transitional Year at Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York, NY; Dermatology at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Sharon Kim
BS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: The Gordian Knot of Oxygen and Iron
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Jenny Lai
BA, Harvard University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Neuroscience (2023)
THESIS: Functional genomic dissection of human brain development, degeneration, and dysfunction in pediatric neurogenetic disorders
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine-Preliminary at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Dermatology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT

Spencer Luster
BA, University of Pennsylvania (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Health Policy: Economics (2024)
THESIS: Understanding the Health Care Delivery System: Empirical Investigations of Insurer Site of Care Policies and Physician Competencies
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

Daniel Michelson
BS, Yale University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2023)
THESIS: Thymic Mechanisms of T Cell Tolerance
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

David Morse
BA, University of Tennessee (2015)
PhD, University of Cambridge in Physics through the National Institutes of Health Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program (2021)
THESIS: Biophysical Approaches to Single-Cell Characterization
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Transitional Year at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA; Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Brigham, Boston, MA

Dylan Neel
BA, Harvard University (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: Gasdermin-E mediates mitochondrial damage in axons and neurodegeneration
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary/Neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Suchita Nety
BS, California Institute of Technology (2017)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biological Engineering (2023)
THESIS: The Transposon-Encoded Protein TnpB is an RNA-Guided Nuclease
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Stanford Health Care, Stanford, CA

Catherine Newman
BS, Duke University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Chemical Biology (2023)
THESIS: Regulation of Apoptosis "Beyond the Point of No Return": Inhibition of Oligomeric BAX by an Antiapoptotic
Dimer
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Leah Pierson
BA, Brown University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Population Health
Sciences: Global Health and Population (2023)
THESIS: Ethics Amidst Uncertainty: Essays on Global Health Priority Setting
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Emily Rencsok
BS, Johns Hopkins University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Population Health Sciences: Epidemiology (2023)
THESIS: Racial disparities in the care of patients with advanced prostate cancer: an analysis of patientreported
outcome and experience measures
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Transitional Year at Massachusetts General Brigham, Newton, MA; Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation at Massachusetts General Brigham, Charlestown, MA

Daniel Rubin
BA, Harvard University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: Mechanisms and acquisition of antibiotic resistance in N. gonorrhoeae
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Laurie Rumker
BA, Stanford University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biomedical Informatics (2023)
THESIS: Modeling inter-individual variation in single-cell datasets to detect cell state abundance associations to clinical features and genetic variants
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA

Joseph Sedlak
BSE, University of Michigan (2014)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2023)
THESIS: The Role of Prostaglandins and a High-fat Diet in Cancer Progression and Metastasis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
BIOTECH: Chief Executive Officer at Adeno, Inc, Boston, MA

Layla Siraj
BA, Harvard University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biophysics (2023)
THESIS: Characterizing Regulatory Elements and Non-Coding Variants in the Human Genome
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Obstetrics-Gynecology at NYP Hospital- Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Annabel Wang
BA, Duke University (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Health Policy: Methods for Policy Research (2023)
THESIS: Health Care Variation and Its Determinants: Studies on Physician Quality, Cancer Screening, and Cardiovascular Care
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA

Carla Winter
BS, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2023)
THESIS: The road from thought to action: a brain-wide atlas of spinal projecting neurons
MD, Harvard Medical School (2025)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary/Neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA; Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA