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We are looking for dynamic and motivated researchers to join our team.
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Meet the Principal Investigator
Zhijian "James" Chen, Ph.D.
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Sciences
Director, Center for Inflammation Research
Professor, Department of Molecular Biology
Professor, Center for Genetics of Host Defense
Member, National Academy of Sciences
Member, National Academy of Medicine
Fellow, Royal Society
Information about Dr. Chen's education and honors can be found via the link below.
Current Lab Members
Lijun ‘Josh’ Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Ph.D., Chinese Academy of Science
B.S., Shandong University
Houssam Al-Saad, M.S.
Mouse Research Manager
M.S., Liberty University
B.S. University of Texas at Arlington
Qinglin Yang, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Center for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science (CEMCS), CAS
B.S., China Agricultural University
Menghang Huang, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Tsinghua University
B.S., Nanjing Agricultural University
Chenglong Sun, Ph.D.
Instructor
Ph.D., Aarhus University
B.S., M.S., Jilin University
Swapneel Patel, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Instructor
Ph.D., Immunology, Washington University in St. Louis
M.D., Washington University in St. Louis
M.S., Biochemistry, California State University
B.S., Physics and Chemistry, California State University
Jiaxing Tan, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Zhejiang University
B.S., Tianjin Medical University
Yan Liu, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., Tsinghua University
B.S., Shanghai Jiaotong University
Chee-Kwee Ea, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
B.S., Tatung University
Ethan A. Perets, Ph.D.
Michael Brown Fellow of the Life Sciences Research Foundation
Ph.D., Yale University, Chemistry
M.A., The Courtauld Institute of Art, History and Conservation of Buddhist Art
B.A., Columbia University, Biochemistry
Ruoshi Peng, Ph.D.
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Ph.D., University of Oxford
B.S., Peking University
Lab Alumni
- Tuozhi Huang, University of California, Los Angeles
- Yan Fang, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
- Justin Jenson, UNC School of Medicine
- Xiang Chen
- Anirban Adhikari, Elan biotechnology company
- Giridhar Akkaraju, Texas Christian University
- Vijay Bhoj, University of Pennsylvania Hospital
- Haocheng Cai, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
- Xin Cai, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Siqi Liu, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Jueqi Chen, University of Chicago
- Philip Cheng, UT Southwestern Medical School
- Yu-Hsin Chiu, Harvard Medical School
- Li Deng, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Yajuan Fu, Fujian Normal University
- Daxing Gao, Rockefeller University
- Xiang Gui
- Mei Hong
- Fajian Hou, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Shuiqing Hu
- Hon-Ren Huang, Constellation Pharmaceuticals
- Qianwen Huang, Xiamen University
- Hui Yang
- Xiaomo Jiang, Novartis Pharmaceuticals
- Atsuhiro Kanayama
- Tong Li, Xiangya Hospital Central South University
- Minghao Li
- Xiao-Dong Li, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
- Hong-Hsing Liu, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
- Gabriel Pineda, University of California San Diego
- Rashu Seth, Yale University School of Medicine
- Qian Shi
- Brian Skaug, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Erika Spencer
- Qinmiao Sun, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Yasuo Tanaka
- Nicole Varnado, UT Southwestern Medical School
- Chen Wang, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hua Wang
- Min Wang
- Jiaxi Wu, University of California at San Francisco
- Youtong Wu
- Zong-Ping Xia, Zhejiang University
- Hui Xu, Genentech
- Ming Xu
- Seoyun Yum
- Wenwen Zeng, Tsinghua University
- Conggang Zhang, Tsinghua University
- Xu Zhang, University of Texas Austin
- Meng Zhao, University of California San Diego
- Mingjian Du, Columbia University
- Pengcheng Sun