Mengjie Chen, PhD

Principal Investigator 

​Associate Professor in
​Genetic Medicine, Human Genetics and Statistics

PhD, Yale University (2014)
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Xiaoyang Dou, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

BS in Biotechnology
Hebei University of Economics and Business
PhD in Computational Biology
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Shun Liu, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

PhD in Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology 
Sun Yat-sen University

Yong Peng, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

  PhD in Bioinformatics
Peking University

Chih-Hsuan Wu, MS

Graduate student, Statistics

BS in Mathematics
Master in Applied Mathematical Sciences
National Taiwan University

Zhiwei Jiang

Graduate student, Chemistry

BS in Chemistry
Peking University

Charles Zhou

Graduate student, GGSB
with Prof Haky Im

BS in Biological Sciences
Zhejiang University​

Lei Zheng, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

  PhD in Zoology
Inner Mongolia University

Kakura & Naruto

 Ragdolls in residency
​with Prof Chao Gao 

Pawchelor in Groomolgy and Scratchry
Minor in Meowing
So Adorable Academy  

Yang Li

Rotation student, PME


BS in Biosciences
USTC

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    Alumni:

• Sam Baureis (Undergraduate student  in Statistics, U Chicago, summer student, June 2017 - Oct 2017)
• Kaiqian Zhang (Master student in Financial Mathematics, U Chicago, 2017 - 2019, now a graduate student at Princeton University)​​
• Tae Kim (PhD student in Statistics, U Chicago, 2017 - 2020, now at Microsoft)
• Qi Zhan (Summer Intern from St. Johns College and then a pre-doctoral Researcher, 2019 - 2020, now a PhD student at Mercedes Pascual lab at U Chicago)
• Shuwen Fang (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, summer student, June 2020 - Sep 2020)
• Allison Rodas (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, summer student, June 2020 - Sep 2020)
• Zijie Zhang (PhD student in GGSB, 2017 - 2020, now a Professor at Yunnan University in China)
• Arpit Panda (Rotation student,  Aug 2020 - Oct 2020,  MSTP program, ​U Chicago, now a PhD student at Chuan He lab at U Chicago)
• Jovian Yu (Fellow Physician in Hematology, PhD student in GGSB, 2020 - 2021, now a PhD student at  Arjun Raman lab at U Chicago)
• Saideep Gona (Rotation student,  Jan 2022 - Mar 2022, GGSB, now a PhD student at Haky Im lab at U Chicago)
• Yifan Zhou (PhD student in Biophysics, U Chicago, 2017-2022, now at GRAIL)
• Yuguan Wang (Master and PhD student in Statistics, U Chicago, 2019-2022)
• Nick Feng (Master student in Biomedical informatics, U Chicago, 2022)
• Yiwei Ding (Rotation student,  2022, Chemistry, U Chicago)
• Carisa Zeng (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, 2022-2023, now an RA at WUSTL)
• Alvin Zhang (Undergraduate student, U Chicago, 2022-2023, now a PhD student at Princeton University) 

More info about current lab members can be found here. 

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