MD-PhD Class of 2025 - Harvard Medical School
Academic Degrees/PhD Titles/Postgraduate Year Destinations
Cyrus Ayubcha
BA, University of Pennsylvania (2019)
MSc, University of Oxford (2020)
PhD, Harvard University in Population Health Sciences: Epidemiology (2024)
THESIS: Frontiers in Neuro-Epidemiology: Advancing Methods Across Diverse Modalities of Data
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Neurological Surgery at University of California, San Diego, CA
Adam Berger
BS, University of Maryland-College Park (2017)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics (2024)
THESIS: Systematic engineering of controlled, localized oligonucleotide delivery systems for wound angiogenesis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital/Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
Alaina Bever
BS, BA Seattle University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Population Health Sciences: Epidemiology (2024)
THESIS: Genetic, metabolomic, and lifestyle dynamics in colorectal cancer and chronic disease prevention
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine-Primary Care at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Sarah Chang
BS, Pennsylvania State University (2016)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2024)
THESIS: Control of Cellular Redox and Biomass Synthesis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
John Drago
SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2017)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (2025)
THESIS: Mitigating Inhomogeneity in High-Field MRI Excitations: Arbitrary Waveform Optimization and Multiphoton Parallel Transmission (MP-pTx)
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Preston Ge
BS, MS Johns Hopkins University (2017)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Brain and Cognitive Sciences (2024)
THESIS: Subcellular Profiling of Dopaminergic Mitochondria: Adaptations to the Axonal Environment in Health and Disease
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary/Neurology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA;
Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Kathleen Higgins
BA, Williams College (2014)
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Biology (2024)
THESIS: Rapid Expansion and Specialization of the Bitter Taste Receptor Family in Amphibians
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Psychiatry at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Samantha Hoffman
BS, Stanford University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2024)
THESIS: Multiomic insights into gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumor biology
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: General Surgery-Preliminary/ Ophthalmology at UCSF San Francisco, CA; Ophthalmology at UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Peter Kalugin
BS, Johns Hopkins University (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Neuroscience (2024)
THESIS: Simultaneous tracking of many neuromodulatory signals in the awake mouse brain
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Anesthesiology at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Edward Kong
BS, Yale University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Economics (2024)
THESIS: Essays on the Economics of Pharmaceuticals and Infectious Disease
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Medicine-Preliminary at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Dermatology at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
Chanthia Ma
BS, Yale University (2017)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2024)
THESIS: Genomic Studies in Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE): From External Traumas to Genetic Alterations
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
William Mannherz
BS, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2024)
THESIS: Control of human telomerase activity by nucleotide metabolism
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Anusha Nathan
BS, California Institute of Technology (2018)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2024)
THESIS: Rational Design of CD8⁺ T Cell Vaccines for SARS-CoV-2
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
Leonard Nettey
BA, MS, University of Pennsylvania (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2024)
THESIS: Evaluating Immunological Treatment and Prevention Strategies Using Single-Cell Genomics
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Brittany Petros
AB, Harvard College (2018)
PhD, Harvard University in Systems, Synthetic, and Quantitative Biology (2024)
THESIS: Genomic methods for the surveillance and epidemiologic inference of respiratory viral pathogens
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Rajet Vatsa
AB, Harvard College (2018)
PhD, Harvard University in Health Policy: Methods for Policy Research (2025)
THESIS: Advancing Evidence-Based Maternity Care: Empirical Studies of Technologies, Policies, and Clinical Practices in the U.S. and Abroad
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Internal Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Thomas Xu
BS, Duke University (2016)
PhD, Harvard University in Immunology (2024)
THESIS: Surface display of proteins on bone marrow-derived dendritic cells induces humoral immune responses and anaphylaxis
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: General Surgery at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Miriam Zawadzki
BA, Washington University in St. Louis (2015)
PhD, Harvard University in Biological and Biomedical Sciences (2025)
THESIS: The identities and roles of cerebrospinal fluid macrophages during development and in the setting of neonatal intraventricular hemorrhage
MD, Harvard Medical School (2026)
RESIDENCY: Pediatrics/Genetics at Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA