Getting To Know The CDN Leadership Team: Sangita Choudhury
From a small city in India to leading-edge cardiovascular genomics in Boston, Dr. Sangita Choudhury’s journey is one of persistence, curiosity, and vision. A microbiologist turned heart researcher, she leads a lab uncovering how our hearts change from birth to aging—mapping every cell, mutation, and molecular shift along the way. By combining single-cell and spatial […]
Getting To Know The CDN Leadership Team: Jeff Moffitt
Jeff Moffitt’s path to biology began with lasers, not microscopes. Trained as a physicist, he was drawn to the beauty of building instruments that reveal the unseen. Today, as a professor at Boston Children’s Hospital, Moffitt leads a lab that merges engineering ingenuity with biological discovery. His team designs advanced imaging technologies that make it […]
Getting to Know the CDN Research Community: Dr. Miao Cui
We are thrilled to feature Dr. Miao Cui, whose scientific journey bridges continents and disciplines—from evolutionary biology in China to cutting-edge heart regeneration research in the U.S. Dr. Cui leads a lab focused on unlocking the regenerative potential of the heart, especially by studying how neonatal mice are able to recover from heart attacks—an ability […]
Getting To Know The CDN Leadership Team: Chris Walsh
In our latest CDN Leadership Team sit down, we welcome Dr. Chris Walsh, a pioneering physician-scientist whose work has fundamentally reshaped how we understand brain development, genetic disease, and human consciousness. As Chief of the Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Walsh has led […]
Getting To Know The CDN Leadership Team: Leslie Kean
In this Spotlight Interview, we feature CDN’s own Dr. Leslie Kean, Director of the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Program at Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Before moving to Boston seven years ago, Dr. Kean worked at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle Children’s, where she served as a transplanter and Associate […]
Expanding Horizons in Microbiology: The Breakthrough of Bacterial MERFISH
At CDN, we love diving into the science, but just as importantly, we love getting to know the scientists behind the discoveries. In this interview, we spoke with Jeff (PI) and Ari (Graduate Student) about their backgrounds, the journey that led them to their current research, and the recent paper on bacterial MERFISH—a groundbreaking technology […]
Gene Therapies to Treat Patients with Sickle Cell Disease
This version of our Researcher Spotlight takes a slightly different, Q&A-style narrative, because Vijay’s tireless work has inspired a massive breakthrough in Sickle Cell Anemia treatment. Let’s dig in! Q: We wanted to talk to you about the recently, December 2023, FDA approved gene therapy Casgevy, to treat transfusion-dependent beta thalassemia (TDT), a type of […]
Collecting Metadata In Large-Scale Projects
A case study of the HCA integrated gut cell atlas Introduction Human experiments can have complex designs and a great deal of clinical covariates that affect analysis. Collecting these covariates can be a difficult process because they span multiple experimental levels, from experimental and analytical methods to donor and sampling information. This is especially […]