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LAB MEMBERS

Hao Wu, PhD
Principle Investigator
haowu2@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Julia Leu, PhD
Research Associate Professor
leu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Dongming Liang
Lab manager/Research Specialist (experimental)
dol@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Fan Li, PhD

Postdoc

Fan.Li@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Hongjie Zhang, PhD
Staff (computational/remote)
Hongjie.Zhang@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Ying Li
Research Specialist (computational)
Ying.Li@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

William Gao
Graduate Student (MD/PhD - GCB program)
William.Gao@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Minerva Springer
Research Specialist (experimental/temp)
minerva.springer@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Jiayi (Joyce) Chen
Visiting Undergraduate Student
jiayi.chen@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Alumni

  • Qi Qiu, Ph.D. | Postdoc/Research Associate ( 2018-2026) | Recipient of 2020 Kaushal Award (Penn Genetics Awards of Excellence) 

  • Saurav Nagpal | Penn undergraduate researcher (2023-2025)

  • Alex Wei, Ph.D. | Graduate student/NGG (2017-2022), supported by NRSA predoctoral fellowship (NHGRI/F31)  | Scientist at Mammoth Biosciences

  • Peng Hu, Ph.D. | Postdoc (2016-2021) | Independent Principal Investigator at Shanghai Ocean University

  • Emily Fabyanic, Ph.D. | Graduate student/PGG (2017-2021), supported by T32 training grant |  Scientist at Spark Therapeutics

  • Jennifer Flournoy, B.S. | Research Specialist (2018-2020) | Now a graduate student at John Hopkins University

  • Xiangjin Kang, Ph.D. | Visiting Scholar (2017-2018) 

  • Wenchao Qian, B.S. | Summer Research Intern (2016) | Now a graduate student at University of Pennsylvania

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