How to Contact Us
Lab website: www.hagedornlab.com
Lab space: EBRC 420
Office: EBRC 427
Lab Manager email: dana.ragoonanan@bmc.org
PI email: hagedorn@bu.edu
Who We Are
Elliott Hagedorn, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine; Associate Member, Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM)
Dana Ragoonanan, Lab manager
Khaliun Enkhbayar, Research Technician
Gwen Beacham, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow
Zewde Ingram, PhD Student
Geethika Bodanapu, Medical Student
Jack Norton, Masters Student
Emily Henault, Undergraduate Researcher
Su Yeon Song, Undergraduate Researcher
Tahreem Nawaz, Undergraduate Researcher
Jesse Wang, Undergraduate Researcher
Katherine Chang, Undergraduate Researcher
What We Do
Our research objective is to understand the basic cellular and molecular mechanisms that regulate the movement of cells into and out of distinct tissues and organs. Our long-term goal is to therapeutically control cell migration within specific tissues – inhibiting it in some contexts (e.g., cancer metastasis) and promoting it in others (e.g., cellular therapies). We use the zebrafish (Danio rerio) as a uniquely powerful model organism and work closely with clinical and biomedical researchers across the BU/BUMC campuses to translate our basic findings in the fish towards clinical therapies for treating human diseases.