Team

Akos Nyerges and the members of the lab at Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics.

Principal Investigator

Akos Nyerges, Ph.D., Principal Investigator

Akos Nyerges, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator · Harvard Medical School, Department of Genetics

Akos holds an NIH K99/R00 Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and was previously an EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow, an EMBO Short-Term Fellow at ETH Zurich, and a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Ph.D. Fellow. Akos is a 2025 Rising Star in Engineering in Health (awarded by Columbia, Cornell, Boston, and Johns Hopkins Universities), a Distinguished Young Scholar, and a Next Generation in Biomedicine awardee at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard.

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Current members

Eric Hu

Eric Hu

Co-op researcher · Northeastern University, Computer Science

Eric joins the lab through Northeastern University's Cooperative Education Program, working at the interface of Machine Learning and experimental biology.

Daisy

Daisy

Honorary Member · Daisy provides essential grant writing support for the lab.


Former members

Elissa Rhuby

Research Assistant · Next position: Graduate student, University of Minnesota


Join the lab

We are recruiting a research assistant, postdoctoral fellows, and welcome inquiries from undergraduates interested in our research. See the Contact page.