Shillah Luhembo

Shillah Luhembo Undergraduate Student - snakulima@partners.org Shillah is an undergraduate student at Boston University who joined the Kwon Lab in March 2018. She is currently studying HIV infection in macrophages where she is interested in evidence of post-entry...

Elizabeth Byrne

Elizabeth Byrne Graduate Student - ebyrne2@partners.org Elizabeth is an MD-PhD student in the Harvard-MIT HST program. She originally joined the Kwon lab in 2011, when she was an undergraduate at Harvard, and began learning how the microbiome and hormones alter the...

Jeff Paer

Jeff Paer Research Technician Jeff joined the Kwon Lab as a technician in 2015 soon after receiving a B.A. in biology from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. He witnessed firsthand the crippling effects of HIV and other infectious diseases while volunteering in...

Melis Anahtar

Melis Anahtar Graduate Student MelisĀ is in her final year of the MD-PhD program at Harvard Medical School. She received her S.B. in mechanical engineering from MIT, then hopped across the pond to get some thymic education and an MSc in immunology from Oxford...

Antonella Lisanti

Antonella Lisanti Research Technician Antonella joined the Kwon Lab as a research technician in 2013, where she worked on projects with the lab’s lung group for three years. She received a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at Yale University where she worked on...