STEFAN G. TULLIUS, MD, PHD
Principal Investigator
Joseph E. Murray, MD Distinguished Chair in Transplantation Surgery
Chief, Division of Transplant Surgery, Director, Transplant Surgery Research Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School
Vice-President, The Transplantation Society (2022-2024)
Incoming Editor-in-Chief, Transplantation Journals
Hao Zhou, MD, PhD
Hao joined in 2020 as a research investigator, lab manager, and instructor in surgery. Prior to joining Tullius Lab, he was a faculty member at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute.
Email: hzhou21@bwh.harvard.edu
Yuko Sato, PhD
Yuko joined in 2023 as a research investigator and instructor. Prior to joining Tullius Lab, she was a faculty member at Keio University School of Medicine in Japan.
Email: ysato1@bwh.harvard.edu
Friederike Martin, MD
Friederike joined the Tullius Lab in January 2023 for her postdoctoral research fellowship. Her work delves into the impact of recipient and donor age and sex on transplantation outcomes, particularly focusing on humoral immune response post-transplantation. Friederike received her medical degree from the Technical University of Munich in 2018 and completed part of her surgical residency at Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, between January 2019 and December 2022. Recognized for her contributions, she was awarded the Sanofi Women in Transplantation Research Fellowship Grant in 2021 and currently holds the Walter Benjamin Scholarship from the German Research Foundation. Since 2023, she has been actively engaged as a trainee of the Pillar 1 committee of Women in Transplantation.
Email: fmartin2@bwh.harvard.edu
MUKHAMMAD KAYUMOV, MD, PHD
Mukhammad joined the Tullius lab in May 2024 as a postdoctoral research fellow. He received his medical degree from Andijan State Medical Institute in Uzbekistan and completed his PhD at Chonnam National University in South Korea. His recent research experience includes working on small animal ECMO models to study immune responses and establishing a combined model of ex situ heart perfusion and heterotopic heart transplantation on rats.
Email: mkayumov@bwh.harvard.edu.
Yao Xiao, MD
Yao is a lab enthusiast keen on scalpel-driving, code-cracking, photo-snapping, and home-decorating. When I’m not busy in the lab unraveling the mysteries of sex hormone, aging and transplant immunology, I’m either exploring new places in the real world or uncovering bugs in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It’s my quirky way of mixing adventure with a love for the unexpected, proving life is full of hidden quests. Join me in the lab or in Hyrule!
Email: yxiao18@bwh.harvard.edu
Keita Nakamori, MD
Keita joined the Tullius Lab in 2023 as a postdoctoral research fellowship. He is a surgeon from Department of Urology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan.
Email: knakamori@bwh.harvard.edu
Merih Gizlenzi
Merih is a medical student from Department of General, Visceral, Cancer and Transplant Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
Email: mgizlenci@bwh.harvard.edu
Elizabeth Zicari
Elizabeth is in her final year of pursuing her PharmD degree at University of Paris and am concurrently pursuing a master’s degree in Immunology and Immunopathology. Prior to joining the Tullius lab, she conducted research on cytoskeleton dysfunction in Treg cells, focusing on a rare autoimmune disease (Dock11 deficiency) at Institut Imagine. As an aspiring MD/PhD/PharmD, she is committed to bridging the gap between clinical practice and cutting-edge research to provide the best possible care for patients. Outside of the lab, she enjoys swimming, reading, and going to concerts.
Email: ezicari@bwh.harvard.edu
| 2005-2007: Christian Denecke, MD
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Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor of Surgery, Vice-Chair of Surgery, Department of General-, Visceral-, and Transplant Surgery, Charité, Berlin, Germany |
| 2006-2008: Paulo Ney Martins, MD, PhD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Transplant Surgeon/Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Massachusetts |
| 2007-2009: Daman Bedi, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Section Head, Transplantation, Associate Professor of Surgery, Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine |
| 2007-2008: Irene Kim, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Director, Comprehensive Transplant Center, Professor of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, California |
| 2007-2011: Xupeng Ge, MD PhD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Senior Anesthesiologist, Scripps Memorial Hospital-La Jolla, California. USA |
| 2008-2010: Xiadong Yuan, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Senior Urologist, Chief Renal Transplantation, Renji Hospital, Shanghai, China |
| 2009-2011: Bernhard Floerchinger, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Vice-Chair of Cardiac Surgery, Professor of Surgery, University Hospital Regensburg, Germany |
| 2009-2011: Marc Oliver Timsit, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Professor of Urology, Hospital Georges Pompidou, Hospital Necker, Paris, France |
| 2011-2012: Rupert Oberhuber, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor, Senior Attending, Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Surgery, University Hospital, Innsbruck University, Austria |
| 2011-2011: Karin Hock, PhD | Lab position: Graduate Student
Associate Professor, Country Medical Manager Oncology, Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH |
| 2011-2012 & 2016-2018: Timm Heinbokel
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Lab position: Graduate Student, Post-doctoral Fellow
Resident in Pathology, Nephrology, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany Currently: PhD Student in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame, IN, USA |
| 2013- 2014: Hector Rodriguez, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor, Cardiovascular Surgeon / Head of Cardiovascular Research, University Hospital Zurich, Researcher Collaborator, Herat Center, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013-2014: Floris Vosquil | Lab position: Graduate Student
MD, resident in Oral-Maxillofacial Surgery, Medical Student, University of Groningen, NL |
| 2014-2014: Matthew Young | Lab position: Summer Student
Matthew Young, MD, JD, MBA, CMQ, FCLM, Esq, Attorney at Law, Ross Feller Casey, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, USA |
| 2014-2015: Felix Krenzien, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor; Vice-Chair of Surgery, Department of General,- Visceral- and Transplantation Surgery, Charité-Berlin, Germany |
| 2014-2015: Leonie Exterkate | Lab position: Graduate Student
Resident, radiation Oncology, Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek Foundation, Amsterdam, NLMedical Student, University of Groningen, NL |
| 2013-2016: Hirofumi Uehara, MD
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Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Urology, Osaka Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital, Osaka, Japan |
| 2013-2016: Markus Quante, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor of Surgery, Vice-Chair, Department of Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Germany |
| 2015-2016: Midas Seyda | Lab position: Graduate Student
Post-doctoral Fellow, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Ma. USA |
| 2016-2018: Koichiro Minami, MD
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Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
General Manager, Department of Urology, Moriguchi-Keijinkai Hospital, Osaka, Japan |
| 2017-2019: Yeqi Nian, MD | Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Associate Professor of Urology, Department of Kidney Transplantation, Tianjin First Central Hospital, Nankai University, Tianjin, China |
| 2018-2020: Jasper Iske, MD | Lab position: Graduate Student
Resident, Clinician-Scientist, German Heart Center, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018-2020: Ryoichi Maenosono, MD
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Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Research Fellow, National Cancer Center Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2011-2020: Abdala Elkhal, PhD | Lab position: Instructor, Laboratory Manager
Assistant Professor, HMRI – Huntington Medical Research Institute, Ca. USA |
| 2021-2022 Andreas Schroeter | Lab position: Medical Student
Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany |
| 2021-2022 Maximilian J. Roesel | Lab Position: Medical Student
Medical School – Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020-2022 Tomohisa Matsunaga, MD
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Lab position: Post Doctoral Research Fellow
Deputy Manager, Department of Urology, Shiroyama Hospital, Osaka, Japan |