Our Team

Sidi Chen, PhD
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
Office: (203) 737-3825, Email: sidi.chen@yale.edu
https://medicine.yale.edu/genetics/people/sidi_chen.profile

Shan Xin, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Xiaolong Tian, PhD
Collaborating Postdoctoral Associate (Fan Group)
Zhenhao Fang, PhD
Visiting Scholar (Remote)
Feifei Zhang, PhD
Associate Research Scientist (Joint with Zhang Group)
Paul Renauer, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate (Joint with Verhaak Group)
Chuanpeng Dong, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Seok-Hoon Lee, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Lei (Vino) Peng, PhD
Collaborating Associate Research Scientist (Gunel Group)
Shanshan Li, PhD
Visiting Scholar


Shawn Lin
PhD Student
Joshua (Josh) Saskin
MD/PhD Student
David Zhicheng Luo
Master student
Kaiyuan Tang
PhD student
Luojia Yang
PhD Student
Saba Fooladi
PhD student (Joint with Qyang Group)
Xiaoyu Huang
Post-Graduate Research Associate
Liqun Zhou
PhD Student
Yanzhi Feng
PhD Student (Joint with Muschen Group)
Charles Zou
PhD Student
Ardavan (Harry) Abiri
PhD student
William Dorst
MD student
Madison Fox
PhD Student

Daniel Park
Undergraduate Student
Irshina Saleem
Undergraduate Student
Samuel Johnson-Noya
Undergraduate Student
Ben Weiss
Undergraduate Student
Paris Fang
Undergraduate Student

Where are we from? All over the world!


Alumni

  • Chuan Liu, Visiting Student, now Resident at Zhejiang University First Affiliated Hospital
  • Jon Mallen, Rotating Student
  • Leah Willner, Rotating Student
  • Vanessa Peireira, Rotating Student
  • Zhenhao (Zane) Fang, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Ping Ren, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Nipun Verma, Postdoctoral Associate, now Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine (starting fall 2025)
  • Alina Shen, MD student at Yale School of Medicine 
  • Stephanie Deng, Rotating Student
  • Kawthar Al Janabi, Undergraduate Student
  • Nabihan Ahsan, Undergraduate student
  • Aaron Liu, Undergraduate student
  • Josephine Burdekin, Undergraduate student
  • Elena Im, Undergraduate student
  • Kai Zhao, Master student
  • Xiaoyu (Ariel) Zhou, Postdoctoral Associate, now Assistant Professor in Wistar Institute, Profile
  • Emily Chang, Undergraduate Student
  • Stellan M. Lee, Research Fellow
  • Giacomo (James) Sferruzza, Visiting MD/PhD student, now Postdoc in UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • Paul Clark, senior scientist, now EHS safety advisor
  • Binfan Chen, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Luciano Romero, Undergraduate Student
  • Lucy Zha, Undergraduate student
  • Daniyal Mirza, Undergraduate student
  • Devin Lin, Undergraduate student
  • Erica Vandenbulcke, Undergraduate student
  • Andrew Du, Undergraduate student, now MD student in Stanford
  • Arianny Acosta, Undergraduate student
  • Emily He, Undergraduate student, now research assistant in Harvard
  • Stellan Lee, Intern master stundet
  • Kaleb Assefa, Undergraduate student
  • Hans Zhao, Rotation student
  • Meizhu Bai, Postdoctoral Associate, now Senior Scientist at Cell Therapy Division, oncology cell therapy unit, AstraZeneca
  • Angie Sanchez, Undergraduate student
  • Carrie Wen, Intern master student
  • Xinyu Ling, Postdoctoral Associate
  • Shaoyu (Alina) Fang, Research Associate, now PhD student at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Zac Zou, Research Associate, now PhD student at UPenn
  • Wenlong Dai, Postdoctoral Associate, now Professor and vice dean for school of biomedical industry research at Nanjing Medical University, Profile
  • Xiaoyun Dai, Postdoctoral Associate, now Assistant Professor at WestLake University, Profile
  • Neil Udassi, Undergraduate student
  • Emma Madoff, High school student, now student at University of Pittsburgh
  • Medha Majety, Undergraduate student, now graduate student at John Hopkins University
  • Kazushi Suzuki, Postdoctoral Associate, now scientist in a pharmaceutical company
  • Jonathan Park, MD/PhD student, dermatology residency at Northwestern Medical school 
  • Matthew Dong, MD/PhD student, rheumatology residency at Johns Hopkins Medical School 
  • Ryan Chow, MD/PhD student, hemeonc residency at UPenn medical school 
  • Grace Vest, Summer student
  • Stanley Lam, Research associate, now graduate student at Weill Cornell Med School
  • Won-Ho Lee, Undergraduate, now PhD student at Yale School of Medicine
  • Lupeng Ye, Postdoc, now assistant professor and PI at Nanjing University, Profile
  • Skylar Lin, RA, now PhD student at Weill Cornell
  • Jared Akers, Rotation student, now Yale grad student
  • Yueqi (Winston) Zhang , Visiting MD/PhD student, now clinical research fellow at Yale Medical School
  • Hanbing (Alan) Cao, Postgraduate associate, now Scientist at Biotech company
  • Yona Lei, Rotating MD/PhD student
  • Viola Lee, Undergraduate student, now pursuing an MS in Public Health at Yale
  • Jerry Zhou, Undergraduate/Master’s student, now consultant at Clarion
  • Johanna Shen, Undergraduate/Master’s student, now consultant at McKinsey
  • Sophia Li, Undergraduate student, now graduate student at Harvard University
  • Youssef Errami, Postdoc, now Assistant Professor at Tulane University, Google Scholar, Profile
  • Yaying Du, Postdoc, now Surgeon and attending physician at Department of Thyroid and Breast Surgery, Tongji Hospital/Tongji Medical College/ Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST)
  • Guangchuan Wang, Postdoc & CRI Irvington Fellow, now Professor at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology (SIBCB) / CAS Centre for Excellence in Molecular Cell Science (CEMCS). Profile
  • Adan Codina, PhD student, now consultant at Cello Health
  • Sung Yeon, Rotating PhD student
  • Cun Liao, Visiting Scholar, now Deputy Chief Physician at the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, Profile
  • Qin Han, Visiting Professor, now Professor at Peking Union Medical College, Profile
  • Yongzhan (Victor) Zhang, Visiting Master’s student, now PhD student at ETH Zurich
  • Josh Yue, Undergraduate student
  • Krista Chen, Undergraduate student, now MD student at Johns Hopkins
  • Alon Millet, Undergraduate/Masters student, now PhD student at Tri-I
  • Chris Guzman, PhD student, now consultant at Boston Consulting Group
  • Erting Tang, Visiting Student, now PhD student at UChicago
  • Yubao Cheng, Rotating PhD Student
  • Eileen Han, Rotating PhD Student
  • Alicia Stein, Rotating PhD Student
  • Quanjun Yang, Associate Research Scientist, now professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, Profile
  • Lyuyun Zhu, Visiting Research Scientist
  • Zhiyuan (Andy) Chu, Visiting Student, now PhD student at Yale
  • Skylar Ford, High School Student, now Undergraduate at UPenn
  • Kristin Kim, Visiting Student
  • Jianjian Guo, Visiting Student, now PhD student at Yale
  • Hyunu Ray Kim, Postgraduate Associate, now PhD student at MSK
  • Xiaoya Zhang, Visiting Student, now Postdoc in Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute.
  • Zhigang Bai, Visiting Scholar, now Professor of Capital Medical University, Profile
  • Li Zhang, Associate Research Scientist, now Director of Computational Biology, Chinese Institute For Brain Research, Beijing, Profile
  • Weilai Dong, Rotating Graduate Student
  • Yangqi Gu, Rotating Graduate Student
  • Michael Martinez, Postgraduate Associate, now MD/PhD student at Stony Brook
  • Yujing Cheng, Visiting Student, now PhD student at UT Southwestern
  • Hanghui Ye, Visiting Student, now PhD student at MD Anderson
  • Li Shen, Visiting Student, now PhD student at Rutgers
  • Gabriella Gabel, High School student. Recently graduated from Cornell with High Honors. Now working at Morgan Stanley in NYC. 
  • Alan Chang, High School student
  • Alex Araki, High School student, now Northwestern University
  • Alex Ristic, High School student
  • Mariana Awdalla, Visiting Student, now MD student at Cambridge University
  • Leilei Niu, Visiting Student, Ph.D. student at University of Hongkong
  • Sensen Zhang, Postgraduate Associate

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