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Our Team

Principal Investigator

Aaron Leong

Current Research Team

Nopporn Thangthaeng

Griffin Duffy

Griffin is a research nurse in the Diabetes Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, and comes from previous work in neurology clinical trials at MGH. Griffin is delighted to be a part of the PROGRESS study and enjoys the process and exploratory nature of clinical trials as a research nurse. In his spare time, Griffin loves to read, stay active, and play the guitar.

Rachel Huynh

Abigail Jones

Eleanor Sanders

Rachel Bartholomew

Rachel Bartholomew is a Senior Clinical Research Coordinator currently working on the EDIC and DPPOS studies at the Diabetes Research Center.  Over the past several years, she has worked on various research studies related to Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes at MGH. She has personal connections to diabetes and hopes that by being a part of studies related to the disease, she can help lead to the betterment of everyone living with it. In Rachel’s free time, she loves hanging out with her partner and 2 cats, along with biking to and from work.

Scientific Collaborators

Mahaek Vora

Mark O’Connor

Josep Maria Mercader

Alicia Huerta

Vicky Kaur

Hasan S. Dashiti

Past Team Members

Saadhvi KartikGraduate Student at Tufts University

After working at the DRC for two years, where she was a Northeastern University co-op student and then a Clinical Research Coordinator, Saadhvi is now completing a Master’s program at Tufts University in Biomedical Sciences.

Cassandra Quinones

Mariella FacibeneMedical Student at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Mariella worked at the DRC for two years. She started as a Northeastern co-op student and then as a Clinical Research Coordinator. She is now pursuing her medical degree at SUNY Downstate College of Medicine.

Dang Van Khanh (Stacey) Nguyen

Mary Banick

Sophia Anain

Julie Parikh

Grace Nobile

Lauren Mendez

Nara Norgil

Edgar Dorsey Trevino

Philip Schroeder

Abigail Jones