Lab Members

John V. FrangioniJohn V. Frangioni, MD, PhD, is an attending physician and Associate Professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is also an Associate Professor of Radiology in the Department of Radiology at the BIDMC. His academic appointments as an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Associate Professor of Radiology are at Harvard Medical School.

His academic training includes an Engineering Sciences degree from Harvard College, an MD from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST Program), a PhD from the Department of Cell Biology at the Harvard Medical School, internship and residency in Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and an Oncology fellowship at BIDMC. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology.

Research Fellows


Yoshitomo Ashitate, MD

Surgical Fellow
Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University
Hokkaido, Japan
yashitat@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Contrast agent chemistry, surgical applications of NIR fluorescence imaging

Hak Soo Choi, PhD

Instructor in Medicine
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Ishikawa, Japan
hchoi@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Quantum dot characterization, quantum dot conjugation chemistry, and chemical library synthesis

Summer Gibbs-Strauss, PhD

Research Fellow
Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth University
Hanover, NH
sgibbs@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Molecular imaging, targeted cancer therapies, and optical imaging

Jacob Hesterman, PhD

Research Fellow
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
jhesterm@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Pre-clinical SPECT/CT imaging, imaging software, and analysis tools

Kazumasa Inoue, PhD

Research Fellow
Functional Imaging Center, National Cancer Center Hospital
East Chiba, Japan
kinoue@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: PET/CT imaging and SPECT/CT imaging

Soon Hee Kim, PhD

Research Fellow
Chonbuk National University
Chonbuk, South Korea
skim22@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Tissue Engineering, cell imaging, and tumor modeling

Fangbing Liu, PhD

Instructor in Medicine
University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart, Germany
fliu@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Molecular biology, peptide phage display, and heterologous expression systems

Khaled Nasr, PhD

Research Fellow
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
knasr@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Synthetic organic chemistry, chemical library synthesis and screening, NIR fluorophore conjugation and purification, quantum dot characterization, and quantum dot conjugation chemistry

Kelly Davis Orcutt, PhD

Research Fellow
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
kjdavis@bidmc.harvard.edu
Areas of Interest: Protein engineering, targeted cancer therapies, mathematical modeling, and pre-targeted radioimmunotherapy

Research Associates


Conor Cross, BS

Research Assistant
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA
cjcross@bidmc.harvard.edu

Dina Feith, MS

Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
dfeith@bidmc.harvard.edu

Tejas Gajera, MS

Research Assistant
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, NJ
tgajera@bidmc.harvard.edu

Jennifer Goodhart, BS

Research Assistant
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
jgoodhar@bidmc.harvard.edu

Merlijn Hutteman, MSc

Visiting Scholar
Leiden University Medical Center
Leiden, The Netherlands
mhuttema@bidmc.harvard.edu

Rita Laurence, BS

Surgical Coordinator
Simmons College
Boston, MA
rlaurence@partners.org

Jeong Heon Lee, BS

Research Assistant
Hanyang University
Seoul, South Korea
jlee27@bidmc.harvard.edu

Rafiou Oketokoun, MS

Research Assistant
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
Montreal, Canada
roketoko@bidmc.harvard.edu

Pankil Patel

Research Assistant
Northeastern University
Boston, MA
ppatel5@bidmc.harvard.edu

Alan Stockdale, MEd

Research Assistant
University of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
astockda@bidmc.harvard.edu

Administrative Staff


Linda Keys, MBA

Administrative Coordinator
Boston University
Boston, MA
lkeys@bidmc.harvard.edu

Lorissa Moffitt, MS

Medical Editor
Bastyr University
Kenmore, WA
lmoffitt@bidmc.harvard.edu

Eugenia Trabucchi, BA

Administrative Assistant
Lesley University
Cambridge, MA
etrabucc@bidmc.harvard.edu

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Contact

Frangioni Lab
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
330 Brookline Avenue, SL-B05
Brookline , MA  02215
617-667-0692
617-667-0981 (fax)

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