People

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)

Chukwuemika Aroh, Ph.D.

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)