PEOPLE
Members of the Drew Lab and CTEU Biobank/EPICORE Staff
Past Mentees / Position (Next Stop):
Vincent M. Battista, PH.D. / Sr. Data Analyst (Bristol Myers Squibb)
Connor Geraghty, PH.D. / T32 Post-doctoral Fellow (Sr. Computational Biologist, Merck)
Takuma Higurashi, M.D. PH.D. / Research Fellow (Yokohama City University School of Medicine)
Karen Kirunda, B.S. / T32 Pre-doctoral Fellow (Biomedical Sciences Master's Program, Brown University)
Jesus Luevano, M.D. / IM Resident (Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons - GI Fellowship)
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Laboratory Alumni / Position (Next Stop):
Samantha Chin / CRC (MSTP at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)
Ingrid Crumpton / CRC II (MHS Physician Assistant, Quinnipiac University)
Zahra Fatehi / CRC I (Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine)
Jackie Flynn / CRC (Tufts School of Dental Medicine)
Kate Gilpin / CRC II (Aetion - Healthcare Tech)
Alina Husain / Research Intern - CRC (Weill Medical College of Cornell University)
Liza Hote / Sr. CRC (Tufts University School of Medicine)
Madeline (Madie) Koehn / CRC II (Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University)
​Claude Luvier-Bonnet / CRC (Yale School of Nursing)
Jennifer Mackinnon Krems / CRC (UCSF School of Medicine)
Deepika Mehra, PH.D. / Research Tech II (Post-Doctoral Fellow - Russell lab - MGH)
Dana Meixell / CRC (Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University)
Patrick Miller / Research Tech II (Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc.)
Melanie Parziale / CRC (Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont)
Crony Patel / CRC (Boston University School of Medicine)
Emily Pond / Research Tech II (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
Elizabeth Prezioso / CRC II (Sidney Kimmel Medical College Thomas Jefferson University)
Trenton (Trent) Reinicke / CRC II (Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine)
Rebecca Rojas / Research Technologist (JEDI Fellow MGH Institute of Health Professionals)
Madeline Schuck, P.A. / Clinical Research Project Manager (MGH-IHP / MGH Gyn Onc)
Janavi Sethurathnam / CRC II (Vanderbilt University School of Medicine)
Julia Solowey / CRC II (Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont)
Oliver Takacsi-Nagy / CRC II (ArsenalBio)
Jacqueline Woo / CRC II (Columbia University Post-Bac Program)
Dylan Zerjav / CRC II (Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth)​​
DAVID A. DREW, PH.D.
Principal Investigator /Â Director of Biobanking
Dr. Drew is an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the Clinical & Translational Epidemiology Unit (CTEU) and Division of Gastroenterology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. His specific research interests are in the identification, interception and precision prevention of gastrointestinal cancers and other diseases. He has a specialized expertise in clinical trial design and implementation, especially with respect to studies of the gut microbiome and precision risk biomarkers. His research is highly collaborative and achievements have been nationally and internationally recognized by professional organizations, including the American Association for Cancer Research, the American Gastroenterological Association, and Aspirin for Cancer Prevention/European Hereditary Tumor Group. He has been funded by the NIH/NIDDK (K01DK120742), the American Gastroenterological Association, the V Foundation, the Koch Institute-MGH Bridge Project, and is an NIH Loan Repayment Ambassador through the NCI (L30CA209764). He is an early career investigator on the Stand Up To Cancer Gastric Cancer Early Detection and Interception and Colorectal Cancer Health Equity Dream Teams, and within the Clinical Center for NIH's Nutrition for Precision Health: The All of Us New England Research Collaborative. He is a Future Leader of the Cancer Grand Challenge Team PROSPECT. In 2025, he was named an MGH Transformative Scholar and was listed as a Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher (Top 1% of Cited Researchers Globally) in 2023 and 2024.
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He has received past funding from the MGH Center for the Study of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (CSIBD) and a Cancer Epidemiology Training grant (T32CA009001). Dr. Drew received a B.S. in Biochemistry/Biophysics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (2009) and a PH.D. in Biomedical Science from UConn Health (2014; Mentor, Daniel W. Rosenberg, PH.D.)
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In addition to his research activities, he Co-Directs the EPICORE Core Service within the Department of Medicine at MGH. As Director of Biobanking for the CTEU, Dr. Drew manages the clinical trials portfolio and biobanking efforts of the CTEU. He oversees a team consisting of a project manager, clinical research coordinators and laboratory technicians to shepherd other investigators through protocol development, IRB approval, clinical implementation, laboratory/biobanking procedures, and regulatory compliance.