The Team – The Love Lab

The Love Lab

Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT
MIT Room 76-231
500 Main Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA

Phone: (617) 324-5295
Fax: (617) 258-5042

J. Christopher Love

Room 76-253
Phone: (617) 324-2300
Email: clove@mit.edu

Maps & directions

MIT Campus Map: Building 76
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Directions on Koch Institute website

Administrative Assistant

**Mariann Murray**
Room 76-261
Phone: 617- 253-0632
Email: mariann@mit.edu

Systems Immunology

**Zachary Rogers**
American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow
zjamesro@mit.edu

**Current Work**:
Cancer immunotherapies, Single-cell sequencing

**Previous Experiences**:
– Upstream and downstream processes development for biopharmaceutical manufacturing at Eli Lilly and Bayer
– Therapy development targeting tumor hypoxia
– Novel method development for *in vitro* oxygen control

**Undergraduate Degree**:
B.S. in Biotechnology
University of California Davis

**Graduate Degree**:
PhD in Chemical Engineering (Sidi Bencherif’s lab)
Northeastern University

Lauren Hubert
Graduate Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering
lhubert@mit.edu

Current Work:
Cancer immunotherapies, Single-cell sequencing, Machine Learning

Previous Experiences:
– BioProcess MS&T Upstream Intern at Bristol Myers Squibb
– Characterization and biosensing applications using Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes (Roxbury Lab, URI)
– Synthesizing protein polymer conjugates for cancer immunotherapy (Wilson Lab, Vanderbilt)

Undergraduate Degree:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering
The University of Rhode Island

Hometown:
South Kingstown, RI

Biomanufacturing/Bioprocessing

**Hayley Ford**
Graduate Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering
hford@mit.edu

Raghav Acharya
Graduate Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering
raghav33@mit.edu

**Brittney Sunday**
Graduate Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering
bcsunday@mit.edu

**Current Work**:
Machine Learning, Bioprocess Development

**Previous Experiences**:
– Formulation and process development for small-molecule drug products

**Undergraduate Degree**:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering
Case Western Reserve University

**Hometown**:
Chicago, Illinois

**Hannah Dickerson**
Graduate Research Assistant
Chemical Engineering
hannah07@mit.edu

**Current Work:**
Poliovirus VLP Synthesis, Poliovirus VLP Downstream Purification

**Previous Experiences:**
– Two-time process engineering intern at Novonesis
– Quantum dot synthesis using dynamic experimentation (Abolhasani Lab)

**Undergraduate Degree**:
B.S. in Chemical Engineering
North Carolina State University

**Hometown:**
North Carolina

**Kanon Kobata**
Graduate Research Assistant
Microbiology
kanon718@mit.edu

**Current Work**:
Strain Engineering, Metabolic Modelling

**Previous Experiences**:
– Strain engineering for gas fermentation and edible oil production

**Undergraduate Degree**:
B.S. in Food Science, B.A. in Food Business
University of Massachusetts Amherst

**Hometown**:
Japan

**Aylin Mohammadzedahmarandi**
Postdoctoral Associate
aylinm@mit.edu

**Current Work**:
– Low-cost vaccine production strategies
– Continuous monoclonal antibody (mAb) production platform development using non–Protein A purification methods
– Virus-like particle (VLP) production and purification

**Previous Experiences:**
– Developed a novel platform for continuous mAb purification in collaboration with Cytiva, Repligen, Millipore, AstraZeneca, AbbVie, and Amgen
– Optimized mAb/Fab sieving loss in collaboration with AbbVie, Biogen, and Amgen
– R&D Scientist at CinnaGen Biopharma: GMP-scale protein purification, formulation development, and analytical method design
– Developed nano-emulsion drug delivery systems for controlled release

**Undergraduate Degree:**
B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering
Amirkabir University

**Graduate Degrees:**
M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering (Drug Delivery Systems)
University of Tehran
Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering (Andrew Zydney’s lab)
The Pennsylvania State University

Undergraduate research assistants

Anwar Atufa
Third year at MIT

Eric Wang
Second year at MIT

Eugenie Cha
Second year at MIT