Current Members
Dung-Fang Lee, Ph.D. (dung-fang.lee@uth.tmc.edu)
Principal investigator (CPRIT scholar in cancer research)
Education: National Tsing Hua University (BS/MS), The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston (Ph.D.), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (Postdoc)
Research Fields: iPSC disease modeling, tumor suppressor genes, systems biology, stem cell, cancer genetics, osteosarcoma, bone development
Ruiying Zhao, MD Ph.D. (ruiying.zhao@uth.tmc.edu)
Principal investigator
Education: Peking University Health Science Center (MD), The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston (Ph.D.), Columbia University (Postdoc)
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, p53, liver differentiation, liver cancer, ubiquitination, AI
An Xu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (CPRIT BIG-TCR Fellow)
Education: Harbin Institute of Technology (BS), University of Science and Technology of China (Ph.D.)
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53, epigenetics, osteosarcoma
Award: CPRIT BIG-TCR postdoctoral fellowship, UTHealth IBP Best Poster Award
Dandan Zhu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow (DoD Horizon Award Fellow)
Education: Central China Normal University (BS), Wuhan University (MS), The University of Hong Kong (Ph.D.)
Research Fields: Hereditary Retinoblastoma, transcriptional factors, bone development
Award: DoD Horizon postdoctoral fellowship, The 2nd Oversea Young Investigators Symposium of China Travel Award
Yu-Wen Huang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: I-Sou University (BS), China Medical University (MS), China Medical University (Ph.D.)
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53
Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang, MS
Graduate Student (Rosalie B. Hite Fellow)
Education: National Tsing Hua University (BS/MS)
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma
Award: Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship, The third place GSEC Poster Competition Award
Yen-Ting Chiang
Graduate Student
Education: China Medical Unversity
Research Fields: Li-Faruamnei syndrome, osteosarcoma, cancer mutations
Lian-Wei Lin, MS
Graduate Student
Education: Asia University (BS), China Medical University (Ph.D.)
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma
Yueh-Ming Shyu, MS
Graduate Student
Education: National Tsing Hua University (BS/MS)
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma
Shannon Erhardt, MS
Graduate Student
Education: Iowa State University (BS), MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biological Sciences (MS)
Research Fields: neural crest differentiation
Ying Liu, BS
Lab Manager
Education: Beijing Industrial & Commercial College (BS)
Research Fields: In charge of Lab research stuff
Rachel Shoemaker
Undergraduate Student
Education: Rice University
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53
Award: UTHealth SPH CPRIT summer program internship; The third place and people's choice awards of elevator speech in UTHealth CPRIT undergraduate summer research program
Taylor Rosen
Undergraduate Student
Education: Rice University
Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53