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Matthew Spite, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
mspite@bwh.harvard.edu

Dr. Spite is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and a Lead Investigator in the Center for Experimental Therapeutics and Reperfusion Injury (CETRI), Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His research focuses on the role of lipid mediators in the regulation of inflammation.  He contributed to the structural elucidation of lipid mediators that promote the resolution of acute inflammation (i.e., resolvin D2 and maresin 1) and maintains an active independent research program that seeks to understand the role of these “pro-resolving mediators” in innate immunity, vascular biology and tissue repair.  His group is also interested in understanding whether defects in pro-resolution pathways contribute to chronic inflammation in cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and whether pro-resolving mediators could be used as templates to develop novel therapeutics for chronic inflammatory diseases.

Hebe Agustina Mena, Ph.D.,
Postdoctoral Fellow
hamena@bwh.harvard.edu

Agustina completed her PhD at the Laboratory of Experimental Thrombosis, IMEX-ANM-CONICET, Argentina with the direction of Soledad Negrotto and fulfilled a research stay at the Université Paris Descartes, Paris. She also did a Postdoctoral training under the mentorship of Eugenio Carrera Silva. She joined the Spite Lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2020.

Blenda Wong
Laboratory Manager
Bwong3@bwh.harvard.edu

Blenda earned her Bachelor of Science Degree in Biochemistry from Tufts University in Medford, MA.  She worked as a Research Associate at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Baptist University, before joining the Spite Lab in 2014.

Jake Altomare
Research Technician
jaltomare@bwh.harvard.edu

Jake earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Boston College in 2022 and joined the Spite Lab as a Research Technician.

Spite Lab alumni

Mary Walker, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (2021-2023).

Filippa Davidsson, Summer Research Assistant (2021 and 2022).  Currently graduate student at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

Heidi Yin, Technical Research Assistant (2020-2021).  Currently Scientist at Blue Rock Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA

Brian Sansbury, Ph.D., Postdoctoral fellow and Instructor (2014-2020).  Currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Louisville School of Medicine

Colin Riley, M.S., Technical Research Assistant (2018-2020).  Currently Clinical Subjects Coordinator, Michigan Medicine

Xiaofeng Li, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2019).  Currently Senior Research Scientist, Biogen, Cambridge, MA

Jason Hellmann, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2016).  Currently Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Louisville.

Michael J. Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., Graduate Student (2010-2014).  Currently Cardiology Fellow, University of Minnesota.

Yunan Tang, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow (2010-2013).  Currently Toxicologist, National Center for Toxicological Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

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