Lab Members

Han Xu, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Associate Professor
B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Email: hxu4@mdanderson.org
Research Interests: bioinformatics and computational biology, transcriptional and epigenetic regulation

Rongjie Fu, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
B.S. in Biotechnology, Northwest A&F University, China
Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Institute of Health Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Email: rfu1@mdanderson.org
Research Interests: Drug resistance in cancer targeted therapy and immunotherapy   
Current Research: The molecular mechanism of CRISPR/Cas9 off-target effect; identification of driver factors in cancer drug resistance using CRISPR screens

Wei He, Ph.D.
Instructor
B.S. in Biology, The Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China
Ph.D. in Bioinformatics, The University of Science and Technology of China, China
Email: whe3@mdanderson.org
Research Interest: Methodology development for high-throughput biomedical and multi-omics data analysis
Current Research: Computational modeling and prediction of CRISPR/Cas9 on-target efficacy and off-target effects; computational approaches for understanding transcriptional and epigenetic regulatory networks

Weijun Liu, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
B.S. in Clinical Medicine, Suzhou Medical College, China
Ph.D. in Pharmacology, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Email: wliu14@mdanderson.org
Research Interest: Applications of CRISPR/Cas9-related techniques
Current Research: Whole genome screening using CRISPR/Cas9 to explore mechanisms of protein arginine methyltransferase inhibitor resistance in cancer cells

Shuyue Wang
Graduate Student
B.S. in Bio-pharmaceutics, Shanghai Ocean University, China
M.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Northeastern University, MA
Email: swang21@mdanderson.org
Research Interests: Integration of multi-omics data to highlight biomedical interrelationships and functions
Current Research: Inference of transcriptional regulatory networks from single cell CRISPR perturbation data

Liang (Leon) Zhang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current position: Instructor, Department of Leukemia, UT MD Anderson

Oscar David Villarreal Escamilla, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current position: Data Scientist, Cerebri AI, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Cheng Xue, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current position: Bioinformatics Scientist II, Genovo Inc

Jin Zhuang Dou, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Alabama at Birmingham