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About HMX

HMX offers a unique
approach to online learning
in medical education.


HMX courses have been envisioned and created by a highly skilled interdisciplinary team of Harvard Medical School educators and creative professionals. Together we craft curricula focused on bringing medical science concepts to life via real-world and clinical applications.

We apply the science of learning and best practices in biomedical visualization to guide the development of our courses. Our goal is to help learners focus on the understanding and application of key scientific principles, with interactive lessons and regular assessments to ensure content mastery.

Since HMX launched in 2016, we’ve delivered these unique courses to a growing number of students and professionals around the world.

What We Offer

Our courses cover key areas of medicine, from foundational science to advanced topics that are changing health care. See all available courses in our HMX Fundamentals and HMX Pro series.

Who It’s For

Learners at all levels have taken HMX courses to get ahead in their education and careers.
See what some of them have to say about the experience.

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HMX courses are designed to facilitate learning for a variety of applications. In the Learning Paths podcast, we explore educational motivations and experiences through conversations with health care students, teachers, and professionals.

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The HMX team

Michael J. Parker

Michael J. Parker, MD

Associate Dean for Online Learning Research / Faculty Director of HMX / Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Joanne Muller

Joanne H. Muller, MA, CMI

Senior Director of Product Development

Safiya Bobb

Safiya Bobb

Associate Director, Program Operations

Kate McDonnell-Dowling

Kate McDonnell-Dowling, PhD

Director of Product Management and Curriculum Development / Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Matt Bunch

Matt Bunch

Director of Software Engineering and Data Architecture

Marysa Angelli

Marysa Angelli

Operations Coordinator

Catherine Clapp

Senior Marketing Manager

Lauren McHale

Coordinator for Institutional and Corporate Relations

Enrique Caballero

Enrique Caballero, MD

Faculty Director of Institutional and Corporate Relations

Caity Anderson

Caity Anderson, PhD

Associate Director of Curriculum / Lecturer in Genetics

Hannah Kilfoye

Hannah Kilfoye, MS

Senior Program Operations Manager

Harriett Arzu

Harriett Arzu

Online Course Delivery Support Specialist

Dahye Kim

Dahye Kim

Online Course Delivery Support Specialist

Nese Dogusan Alexander

Nese Dogusan Alexander

Operations Coordinator

Elizaveta Wick, PhD

Pharmacology Curriculum Lead / Research Associate in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology

Carlos Donado, PhD

Immunology Fellow / Instructor in Medicine

Laura Dedmon, MBBS, MSci

Scientific Content Writer and Editor

Saman Doroodgar Jorshery.

Saman Doroodgar Jorshery, MD, MPH

Teaching Associate / AI in Medicine Curriculum Lead

Faculty

Physiology

PRIMARY FACULTY


Richard M. Schwartzstein, MD

Ellen and Melvin Gordon Professor of Medicine and Medical Education, Harvard Medical School

Michael J. Parker, MD

Associate Dean for Online Learning / Faculty Director of HMX / Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Melanie Hoenig, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Nephrologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Barbara LeVarge, MD

Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Pulmonologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (former)

Duane Pinto, MD, MPH

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Interventional Cardiologist, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Genetics

PRIMARY FACULTY


Christine DeGennaro, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School (former)

Robert Green, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Geneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Carrie Blout, MS, CGC, LGC

Senior Genetic Counselor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Calum MacRae, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Jonathan Picker, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Geneticist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Huma Rana, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Geneticist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Immunology

PRIMARY FACULTY


Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School

Marshall Thomas, PhD

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School (former)

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Jules Dienstag, MD

Carl W. Walter Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Gastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Keith Flaherty, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Hematologist/ Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joseph Merola, MD, MMSc

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School / Dermatologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David Sloane, MD

Instructor, Harvard Medical School / Allergist and Immunologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Biochemistry

PRIMARY FACULTY


Kevin Bonham, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School (former)

Ole-Petter (“OP”) Hamnvik, MB BCh BAO, MMSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Endocrinologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Marie E. McDonnell, MD

Lecturer on Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Endocrinologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Eli Miloslavsky, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Rheumatologist, Massachusetts General Hospital


Pharmacology

PRIMARY FACULTY


Kate McDonnell-Dowling, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Associate Director of Curriculum, HMX

James P. Rathmell, MD

Primary Clinical Faculty
Leroy D. Vandam Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School / Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David E. Golan, MD, PhD

Primary Advising Faculty
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School /
Dean for Research Operations and Global Programs, Harvard Medical School /
George R. Minot Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Nikhil C. Munshi, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Pritesh Topiwala, MD

Instructor in Anesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Cancer Genomics and Precision Oncology

PRIMARY FACULTY


Christine DeGennaro, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School (former)

Marios Giannakis, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Robert Green, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Geneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Carrie Blout, MS, CGC, LGC

Senior Genetic Counselor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


George Demetri, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

William Hahn, MD, PhD

William Rosenberg Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

William Kaelin, MD

Sidney Farber Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine

Tali Mazor, PhD

Computational Biologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Jonathan Nowak, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Molecular Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Huma Rana, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Geneticist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Alice Shaw, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Thoracic Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Lynette Sholl, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Immuno-oncology

PRIMARY FACULTY


Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School

Andrew Pike, PhD

Lecturer in Immunology, Harvard Medical School / Curriculum Fellow in Online Learning

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Keith Flaherty, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Hematologist/ Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Gordon Freeman, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Timothy Graubert, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Hematologist/Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

F. Stephen Hodi, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Marcela Maus, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Hematologist/Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Nikhil C. Munshi, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Medical Oncologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Lynette Sholl, MD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Scott Rodig, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Arlene Sharpe, MD, PhD

Kolokotrones University Professor, Harvard Medical School / Chair of the Department of Immunology and Director of the Mouse Engineering Core, Harvard Medical School

Genetics – Essentials

PRIMARY FACULTY


Christine DeGennaro, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School (former)

Robert Green, MD, MPH

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Geneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Carrie Blout, MS, CGC, LGC

Senior Genetic Counselor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


George Church, PhD

Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School / Professor of Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School

Isaac (“Zak”) Kohane, MD, PhD

Marion V. Nelson Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School / Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School

Calum MacRae, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Cardiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Heidi Rehm, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Chief Genomics Officer, Massachusetts General Hospital


Pharmacology – Essentials

PRIMARY FACULTY


Kate McDonnell-Dowling, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Associate Director of Curriculum, HMX

James P. Rathmell, MD

Primary Clinical Faculty
Leroy D. Vandam Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School / Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital

David E. Golan, MD, PhD

Primary Advising Faculty
Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Dean for Research Operations and Global Programs, Harvard Medical School /
George R. Minot Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Elizabeth Garner, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer, ObsEva SA / Harvard Medical School alumna

Vishal Patel, PhD

Chief of Staff, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research / Harvard Medical School alumnus

Peter Sorger, PhD

Otto Krayer Professor of Systems Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

Pritesh Topiwala, MD

Instructor in Anesthesia, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Novel Therapies for Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmunity, and Allergy

PRIMARY FACULTY


Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School

Andrew Pike, PhD

Lecturer in Immunology, Harvard Medical School / Curriculum Fellow in Online Learning

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Michael Dougan, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Gastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Aidan Long, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Allergist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joseph Merola, MD, MMSc

Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School / Dermatologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Deepak Rao, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Rheumatologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Michael Weinblatt, MD

John R. Riedman Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Rheumatologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Genetic Testing and Sequencing Technologies

PRIMARY FACULTY


Caity Anderson, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School / Curriculum Fellow in Online Learning

David Miller, MD, PhD

Primary Clinical Faculty
Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Medical Geneticist, Boston Children’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Mark Daly, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Geneticist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Christine DeGennaro, PhD

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School (former)

Amit Khera, MD, MSc

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Cardiologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Cynthia Morton, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Medical Geneticist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Anne O’Donnell Luria, MD, PhD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Medical Geneticist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Michelle Pacione, EdM, MS, LCGC

Genetic Counselor, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Timothy Yu, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Neurologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Drug Delivery

PRIMARY FACULTY


Kate McDonnell-Dowling, PhD
Course Lead

Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Associate Director of Curriculum, HMX

Daniel Kohane, MD, PhD

Primary Faculty
Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School / Pediatric Critical Care Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital

Philip Cole, MD, PhD

Primary Advising Faculty
Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Senior Investigator, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Michael Agus, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Pediatric Endocrinologist and Pediatric Critical Care Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital

Katharine Garvey, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Pediatric Endocrinologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Ana Jaklenec, PhD

Research Scientist and Principal Investigator, MIT

Jeffrey Karp, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Robert Langer, ScD

David H. Koch Institute Professor, MIT / Faculty, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology

Xueguang Lu, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, MIT

Morteza Sarmadi, MSc

PhD candidate, MIT

Garry Steil, PhD

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Physiologist and Research Engineer, Boston Children’s Hospital

C. Giovanni Traverso, MB, BChir, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Gastroenterologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS


Yang Li, PhD

Research Fellow, Boston Children’s Hospital

Wei Zhang, PhD

Instructor in Anesthesiology, Boston Children’s Hospital


Vaccines and Viral Immunology

PRIMARY FACULTY


Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD

Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School / Pathologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine and Health Sciences and Technology, Harvard Medical School

Andrew Pike, PhD

Lecturer in Immunology, Harvard Medical School / Curriculum Fellow in Online Learning

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Galit Alter, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dan Barouch, MD, PhD

William Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Jules Dienstag, MD

Carl W. Walter Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Gastroenterologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Stephen C. Harrison, PhD

Giovanni Armenise-Harvard Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, Harvard Medical School

Kathryn E. Stephenson, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Bruce Walker, MD

Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Drug Discovery and Development

PRIMARY FACULTY


Kate McDonnell-Dowling, PhD

Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Associate Director of Curriculum, HMX

Mark Goldberg, MD

Lecturer in Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Attending Physician in Hematology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Member of Board of Directors at Avacta Group PLC

Mark Namchuk, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Executive Director of Therapeutics Translation in Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School

William Clarke, MD

Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School / Pediatric Critical Care Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital

Paul Ridker, MD, MPH

Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


David Altshuler, MD, PhD

Executive Vice President of Global Research and Chief Scientific Officer, Vertex Pharmaceuticals / Senior Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Julie Buring, DSc

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Rory Collins, FRS, FMedSci

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Oxford / Principal Investigator and Chief Executive, UK Biobank

Elizabeth Garner, MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Agile Therapeutics / Owner and President, KNI Health Consultants / Harvard Medical School alumna

Sam Moskowitz, MD

Executive Medical Director, Vertex Pharmaceuticals / Lecturer, Harvard Medical School

Paul Negulescu, PhD

Senior Vice President and Site Head of San Diego Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Saurabh Saha, MD, PhD

Chief Executive Officer, Centessa Pharmaceuticals / Associate Member, Harvard Medical School

Priya Singhal, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Safety & Regulatory Sciences, Biogen / Harvard Medical School alumna

Frank Slack, PhD

Shields Warren Mallinckrodt Professor, Harvard Medical School / Director of the Institute for RNA Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Vishal Vaidya, PhD

Senior Director and Head of Clinical Biomarker Technologies, Pfizer / Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS


Juli Coraor Fried

MD/PhD candidate, Harvard Medical School

Michael Poeschla

MD/PhD candidate, Harvard Medical School

Gene Therapy

PRIMARY FACULTY


Caity Anderson, PhD

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School / Genetics Curriculum Lead, HMX

Connie Cepko, PhD

Bullard Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School / Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Christine Duncan, MD

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Senior Physician, Dana-Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center / Medical Director of Clinical Research and Clinical Development, Gene Therapy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Jason Comander, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School / Director of the Inherited Retinal Disorders Service, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

David Corey, PhD

Bertarelli Professor of Translational Medical Science, Harvard Medical School

Florian Eichler, MD

Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School / Neurologist and Director of the Leukodystrophy Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

Erica Esrick, MD

Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Pediatric Hematologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Rachel Huckfeldt, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School / Ophthalmologist, Massachusetts Eye and Ear / Director of the Inherited Retinal Degenerations Fellowship, Massachusetts Eye and Ear

Patricia Musolino, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School / Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital / Co-Director of the Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Service, Massachusetts General Hospital / Faculty, Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital

David Williams, MD

Leland Fikes Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Chief of the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital / Associate Chairman, Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS


Jillian F. Wise, PhD

Instructor in Investigation, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School / Broad Institute

Jordan Said, MD

Internal Medicine Resident, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School

Allie Stanton

PhD Candidate, Harvard Medical School

Clinical Drug Development

PRIMARY FACULTY


Kate McDonnell-Dowling, PhD

Lecturer in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Associate Director of Curriculum, HMX

Paul Ridker, MD, MPH

Eugene Braunwald Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Senior Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Scott Berry, PhD

President and Senior Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants

Julie Buring, ScD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Rory Collins, FRS, FMedSci

Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Oxford / Principal Investigator and Chief Executive, UK Biobank

George Q. Daley, MD, PhD

Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Harvard University / Dean of Harvard Medical School / Caroline Shields Walker Professor of Medicine, Robert A. Stranahan Professor of Pediatrics, and Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute / Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

Margaret Hamburg, MD

Foreign Secretary, National Academy of Medicine / President, American Association for the Advancement of Science / Former Commissioner, FDA / Harvard Medical School alumna

Joe Miletich, MD, PhD

Senior Vice President of Discovery, Preclinical, and Early Development, Merck

Marc Pfeffer, MD, PhD

Victor J. Dzau Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Cardiovascular Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Alice Shaw, MD, PhD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Thoracic Oncologist, Massachusetts General Hospital

Priya Singhal, MD, MPH

Senior Vice President and Head of Global Safety & Regulatory Sciences, Biogen / Harvard Medical School alumna

Meredith Buxton, PhD, MPH

President and CEO of Global Coalition for Adaptive Research

Brian Alexander, MD, MPH

CEO of Foundation Medicine / Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, Harvard Medical School / Disease Center Leader of the Center for Neuro-Oncology, Dana–Farber Cancer / Institute Director of Therapeutic Science, Harvard Medical School

Michelle Albert, MD, MPH

Associate Dean of Admissions, Professor of Medicine, and Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco / President of the American Heart Association

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS


Juli Coraor Fried

MD/PhD candidate, Harvard Medical School

Hannah Hoffman

MD/PhD candidate, Harvard Medical School

Nucleic Acid Therapeutics

PRIMARY FACULTY


Caity Anderson, PhD

Lecturer in Genetics, Harvard Medical School / Genetics Curriculum Lead, HMX

Ben Kleinstiver, PhD

Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School / Assistant Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital / Kayden-Lambert Research Scholar, Massachusetts General Hospital

Art Krieg, MD

Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School / Founder and former CSO, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Melissa Moore, PhD

Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School / former CSO, Moderna, Inc.

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


Daniel Bauer, MD, PhD

Donald S. Fredrickson, MD Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School / Attending Physician, Dana–Farber/Boston Children’s Cancer and Blood Disorders Center / Dagres Family Chair, Director of the Gene Therapy Program, Boston Children’s Hospital

Elizabeth Buchbinder, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Oncologist, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute within the Melanoma Disease Center

Partha Ghosh, MD

Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School / Pediatric Neurologist, Boston Children’s Hospital

Muthiah (Mano) Manoharan, PhD

Senior Vice President of Drug Innovation, Head of Innovation Chemistry, and Distinguished Research Scientist, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals

Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, PhD

Chief Scientific Officer, Intellia Therapeutics

Catherine Wu, MD

Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Oncologist, Chief of the Division of Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies, and Lavine Family Chair for Preventative Cancer Therapies, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute

Drug Discovery

PRIMARY FACULTY


Liza Wick, PhD

Research Associate in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Pharmacology Curriculum Lead, HMX

Lyn Jones, PhD

Research Associate in Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School / Director of the Center for Protein Degradation, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Art Krieg, MD

Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School / Founder and former CSO, Checkmate Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Marcela Maus, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Paula O-Keeffe Endowed Chair, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center / Director, Cellular Immunotherapy Program and Attending Physician, Bone Marrow Transplant and Cell Therapy Division of Hematology/Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital

Jeff Way, PhD

Lecturer in Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

CONTRIBUTING FACULTY


David Avigan, MD

Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Cancer Center Director, Senior Vice President of Cancer Services, and Chief of Division of Hematology and Hematologic Malignancies, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Felicia Ciuculescu, MD

Tech Transfer Director, Cell Manipulation Core Facility, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

John Diener, PhD

Senior Vice President, Tectonic

Benjamin Ebert, MD, PhD

George P. Canellos, MD, and Jean S. Canellos Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Chair of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Anastasia Khvorova, PhD

Professor, RNA Therapeutics Institute, UMass Chan Medical School / Director-at-large/Scientific & Research Council Chair, American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy

Milka Kostic, PhD

Lecturer, Biological Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard Medical School / Director, Chemical Biology Program, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Sarah Nikiforow, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Technical Director, Immune Effector Cell Therapy Program and Medical Director, Connell and O’Reilly Families Cell Manipulation Core Facility, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Clinical Instructor of Medicine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Carl Novina, MD, PhD

Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School / Principal Investigator, Cancer Immunology and Virology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Founder, Microbial Machines / Founder, Dynamic Cell Therapies, Inc.

Pamela Silver, PhD

Elliott T. and Onie H. Adams Professor of Biochemistry and Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School

Current and Past HMX Moderators

Elliot Akama-Garren

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2025

Adam Berger

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2026

Juli Coraor Fried

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2024

Anže Godicelj

Harvard Medical School student
PhD Candidate, 2025

Hannah Hoffman

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2029

Catherine Jacob-Dolan, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School

Gha Young Lee

Harvard Medical School student
MD Candidate, 2024

Harrison Ngue

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2031

Phani Paladugu, MMSc, MS

Research Scholar
Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Harvard Medical School Alumnus (MS 2021)
Sidney Kimmel Medical College student
MD Candidate, 2026

Michael Quezada

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2029

Jacob Ronald Anderson

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2026

Gaspar Pacheco Ruidíaz

Harvard Medical School student
PhD Candidate, 2028

Justine Rutter

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2028

Priya Shah, MD

Pediatrics Resident
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Harvard Medical School Alumna

Blake Smith

Harvard Medical School student
MD/PhD Candidate, 2026

Jesús Valdiviezo, PhD

Research Fellow
Harvard Medical School