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Mengjie Chen, PhD

Principal Investigator 

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


PhD, Yale University (2014)
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Ken Chen, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

BS in Chemistry
Beijing Normal University
PhD in Compute Science and Technology

Sun Yat-sen University
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Haoye Yang

Rotation Student
Human Genetics


BS in Applied Mathematics
Sun Yat-sen University
MS in Statistics 

University of Washington

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Peihong Zhang, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

  PhD in Computational Biology
Chinese Academy of Science
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Linzhe Teng

Master student, Statistics

BS in Applied Mathematics
​UIUC



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Zhiwei Jiang

Graduate student, Chemistry
with Prof Sebastian Pott


BS in Chemistry
Peking University



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Charles Zhou

Graduate student, GGSB
with Prof Haky Im

BS in Biological Sciences
Zhejiang University​



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Lei Zheng, PhD

Postdoc with Prof Chuan He

  PhD in Zoology
Inner Mongolia 
University
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Kakura & Naruto

 Ragdolls in residency
​with
Prof Chao Gao 

Pawchelor in Groomolgy and Scratchry
Minor in Meowing
So Adorable Academy  
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Yang Li

Graduate, PME
Joint with Prof Chuan He



BS in Biosciences
USTC







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Jianan Rui

Graduate student, Statistics


MS in Statistics
U Chicago
BS in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics

University of Warwick



    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 medical director at AbbVie)
  • 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) 
  • Xiaoyang Dou (Postdoc, 2019-2024, now a PI at  Chinese Academy of Science Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science)
  • Shun Liu (Postdoc, 2018-2024, now a PI at Sun Yet-Sen Memorial Hospital)
  • Yong Peng (Postdoc, 2020-2024)
  • Chih-Hsuan Wu (PhD student in Statistics, U Chicago, 2019-2024, now a biostatistician at St Jude children's research hospital)
  • Gu Wang (Visiting Student, NUS, Sep - Dec 2024)
More info about current lab members can be found here. 

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Location

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Section of Genetic Medicine
​University of Chicago​
5841 S. Maryland Ave N417A
Chicago, IL 60637 USA
Tel: 773-834-3175 
Email: [email protected]

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