Current Members
Dung-Fang Lee, Ph.D. (dung-fang.lee@uth.tmc.edu)
Principal investigator (CPRIT scholar in cancer research)
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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)
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Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma, iPSC disease modeling
Ruiying Zhao, MD Ph.D. (ruiying.zhao@uth.tmc.edu)
Principal investigator
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Education: Peking University Health Science Center (MD), The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Houston (Ph.D.), Columbia University (Postdoc)
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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.)
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Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53, epigenetics, osteosarcoma
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Award: CPRIT BIG-TCR postdoctoral fellowship, UTHealth IBP Best Poster Award
Yu-Wen Huang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: I-Sou University (BS), China Medical University (MS), China Medical University (Ph.D.)
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Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53
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Trinh T. T. Phan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: The University of Danang (BS), National Tsing Hua University (MS/PhD)
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Research Fields: p53, mutant p53, and Li-Fraumni syndrome
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Mo-Fan (Elena) Huang, MS
Graduate Student (Rosalie B. Hite Fellow)
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Education: National Tsing Hua University (BS/MS)
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Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma
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Awards: Rosalie B. Hite Fellowship, The third place GSEC Poster Competition Award, The Antje Wuelfrath Gee and Harry Gee, Jr. Family Legacy Scholarship, the first place of Poster Presentation Award at the 2023 BCB Spring Symposium, GSEC travel award, GSBS travel award, and G&E program travel award
Liang-Wei Lin, MS
Visiting Graduate Student
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Education: Asia University (BS), China Medical University (Ph.D.)
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Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, Hereditary Retinoblastoma
Yuan-Xin Wang, MS
Visiting Graduate Student
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Education: National Tsing Hua University (BS)
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Research Fields: RB1 tumor suppressor and cancer
Cheng-En (Allen) Shen, MS
Graduate Student
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Education: National Tsing Hua University (BS/MS)
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Research Fields: mutant p53 and cancer
Ying Liu, BS
Lab Manager
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Education: Beijing Industrial & Commercial College (BS)
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Research Fields: In charge of Lab research stuff
Taylor Rosen
Undergraduate Student
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Education: Rice University
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Research Fields: Li-Fraumeni syndrome, mutant p53