About Us

Meet the MRCT Center Team

Leadership

Barbara E Bierer

Faculty Director

Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

Mark Barnes

Faculty Co-Director

Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School

Sarah White

Executive Director

Senior Advisors

Elizabeth Cahn

Senior Advisor

Program Director, Cancer Connection

Luke Gelinas

Senior Advisor

Chairperson at Advarra IRB

Rebecca Li

Senior Advisor

Executive Director, Vivli

Instructor, Harvard Medical School

David Peloquin

Senior Advisor

Partner, Ropes & Gray

David Strauss

Senior Advisor

Special Lecturer, Columbia University

MRCT Center Team

Hayat Ahmed

Program Manager

Carmen Aldinger

Senior Administrative and Training Manager

Sylvia Baedorf Kassis

Program Director

Kristin Bartlett

Program Coordinator

Samjhana Bogati

Program Manager

Erin Chaves

Administrative Coordinator

Nannie Clough

Senior Communications and Website Specialist

Willyanne Decormier Plosky

Program Director

Sarah Evenson

Project Manager

Jack Ferdman

Research Analyst

Elisa Koppelman

Program and Team Director

Lauren Otterman

Project Manager

Kayleigh To

Project Manager

Deborah A. Zarin

Program Director

Alyssa Panton

Research Assistant

Daniel Albert-Rozenberg

Legal Research Assistant

Ava Glazier

Student Researcher

Molly Siegel

Student Researcher

Yimeng (Anna) Lyu

Student Researcher, Creative Design

Sandra (Xinyu) Ye

Student Researcher, Creative Design