Meet the Principal Investigator

Nan Yan, Ph.D.
Professor & Vice Chair
Department of Immunology, UTSW
(Ph.D. in Molecular Biology, University of Texas at Austin)
Current Lab Members
Nicole Dobbs, Ph.D.
Lab Manager
Microbiology and Immunology
University of North Texas Health Science Center

Kun Yang, M.D./Ph.D.
Instructor
Immunology
Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China

Gustavo Torres-Ramirez
Research Associate
B.S. in Microbiology, UT Arlington

Devon Jeltema
Graduate Student (Immunology)
B.S., Wheaton College

Cong Xing
Graduate Student (Immunology)
B.S. Wuhan University, China

Zhen Tang
Graduate Student (Immunology)
B.S., Duke University

Wanwan Huai
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Institute of Immunology, Zhejiang University

Kun Song
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D. Biomedical Science, Tulane University

Heng Lyu
Postdoctoral Fellow
Ph.D., Cell Biology, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Antonina Araszkiewicz
Graduate Student (Immunology)
B.S. and M.S. in Neuroscience, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland
M.S. in Biotechnology, Warsaw, Poland

Lab Alumni
Maroof Hasan, M.D./Ph.D.
Current: Director, Translational Medicine (Myeloid Disease Lead) at Bristol Myers Squibb
Previous: Postdoctoral Fellow

Martin Kucej, Ph.D.
Current: Co-founder of Scilico, LLC
Previous: Postdoctoral Fellow

Julie Martellini, Ph.D.
Current: Lab Director, Highgrade Labs
Previous: Postdoctoral Fellow

James Koch, M.S.
Current: Vanderbilt University
Previous: Research Technician

Chukwuemika Aroh, Ph.D.
Current: Division Director at South Carolina State Public Health Laboratory
Previous: Graduate Student (Immunology)

Vijaya Gonugunta, Ph.D.
Current: Biotech industry
Previous: Postdoctoral fellow

Ryan Huang, B.S.
Current: Graduate Student at UT Southwestern (Immunology)
Previous: Research Assistant

Vladislav Pokatayev, Ph.D.
Current: Broad Institute, Boston, MA
Previous: Graduate Student (Immunology)

Charles Fermaintt, Ph.D.
Current: Assistant Professor, University of the Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
Previous: Graduate Student (Biochemistry)

Jianjun Wu, Ph.D.
Current: Assistant Professor, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland, Ohio
Previous: Postdoctoral Fellow

Xintao Tu, Ph.D.
Current: Merck
Previous: Graduate Student (Immunology)

Ting-Ting Chu, Ph.D.
Current: Principal Investigator, Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China
Previous: Postdoctoral Fellow

Wendy Chen, M.S.
Current: UT San Antonio, TX
Previous: Research Associate

Jie Han, M.S.
Current: UTSW
Previous: Sr. Research Associate

Kennady Knox
Current: UTSW Medical School
Previous: Graduate Student (MSTP)
