Featured Alumni (more coming soon!)
Featured Alumni are alumni who have agreed to be featured for professional networking purposes and/or are recognized as exemplary leaders in their respective fields. If you’d like to be listed as a featured alumni please email Lauren.Blake@tufts.edu with your current contact information, current position held, years you were in the Kaplan Lab, and a recent headshot.


Tufts BME Professor
Andrew Stout, PhD
PhD Candidate (2017-2022)

Co-Founder and CTO of Deco Labs
John Yuen, PhD
PhD Candidate (2017-2023)

Professor at Kyoto University
Keiji Numata, PhD
Post-doc (2008-2010)

CEO and Founder of Kapha Bio
Lindsay Wray, PhD
PhD candidate (2008-2013)

Co-Founder and CEO of Deco Labs
Natalie Rubio, PhD
PhD Candidate (2016-2021)

Researcher at Ajinomoto Co.
Natsu Takahashi (Sugama)
Visiting Scholar (2023-2025)

Program Coordinator at TUCCA Commercialization Lab
Olivia Calkins
Undergraduate Researcher (2021–2024)
All Alumni
The following is a near-complete list of alumni of the Kaplan Lab. If you are not on this list and should be please email Lauren.Blake@tufts.edu so we can add you. Also, alumni of the lab should join the lab’s LinkedIn group to stay in touch!