OUR TEAM
Cristina Aguayo-Mazzucato MD PhD
Principal Investigator
Dr. Aguayo-Mazzucato was born in Barcelona, Spain. She received her MD degree in General Medicine and her PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the National Autonomous University in Mexico (UNAM). In 2007 she joined the laboratory of Prof. Susan Bonner-Weir at Joslin Diabetes Center as a postdoctoral fellow studying beta-cell functional development and developed strategies to enhance functional maturity in vitro for cellular replacement therapies for diabetes.
In July 2019 she established the Beta Cell Aging Lab at Joslin Diabetes Center which aims to understand the molecular progression of senescence and identify alleviating strategies that have a positive impact in the prevention and treatment of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes.
CURRENT MEMBERS
Stephanie Sanjines
Undergraduate Student
A.B. Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Harvard University.
Kanako Iwasaki
Research Fellow
MD in Shiga Medical University and PhD in Kyoto University, Japan
Priscila Carapeto
Visiting Graduate Student
Master and PhD candidate inMorphology, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Francesko Hela
Research Fellow
PhD PhD in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Koç University, Turkey
Briana Cortez
Visiting Research Internship Program Intern
MD/MPH Student at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
Maya Jackson
Graduate Student, research rotation PhD Program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Harvard Medical School
FORMER MEMBERS
Ayush Midha
Undergraduate student/Research assistant
A.B. Human Developmental and Regenerative Biology, Secondary in African Studies, Harvard University
Currently: MD/PhD student at UCSF
Jiho Kahng
Undergraduate Student.
B.S. in Engineering Physics and Biochemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lucia Bleichmar
Visiting Student
Currently: Medical Student at Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Cristian Abarca
Senior Research Assistant
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Boston
Currently: Research Scientist II, Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
Joshua Andle
Research Assistant
B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Maine
Nadine Bahour
Undergraduate Student
A.B. in Neuroscience, Secondary in Government, Harvard University
Currently: Research Assistant, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health