Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Barnhart Family Distinguished Professor in Targeted Therapies
Deputy Chair, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Faculty Member, Graduate Program in Structural & Computational Biology & Molecular Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine
Instructors
Han Chen
Instructor (March 2016 to present)
Ph.D., Biotechnology, Sun Yat-sen University, China
Zhicheng Zhou
Instructor (May 2015 to present)
Ph.D., Cancer Biology, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Research Scientists
Wei Liu
Research Scientist (February 2022 to present)
Ph.D., Bioinformatics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Kamalika Mojumdar
Research Scientist (January 2017 to present)
Ph.D., Immunology and Microbiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, India
Postdoctoral Fellows
Zhenzhen Xun
Postdoctoral Fellow (October 2023 to present)
Ph.D., Clinical Medicine, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Graduate Students
Yitao Tang
Ph.D. Student (August 2020 to present)
Quantitative Sciences Program, MD Anderson UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences
Liudeng Zhang
Ph.D. Student (March 2024 to present)
Quantitative and Computational Biosciences Program, Baylor College of Medicine
Yining Zhao
Ph.D. Student (March 2024 to present)
Quantitative and Computational Biosciences Program, Baylor College of Medicine
Past Members
Ph.D. Students
Robyn L. Ball (Texas A&M University)
Current Position: Lead Statistian, Stanford University
Hu Chen (Baylor College of Medicine)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Zhongyuan Chen (Rice University)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Purdue University
Yikai Luo (Baylor College of Medicine)
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California San Francisco
Yumeng Wang (Baylor College Medicine)
Current Position: Bioinformatician, Novatis
Yang Yang (UT Health Science Center)
Current Position: Research Scientist, Alignment Healthcare
Yuan Yuan (Baylor College Medicine)
Current Position: Bioinformatician, AstraZeneca
Visiting Scholars
Ke Chen (Beijing Institue of Genomics, 6/2018¨C9/2019)
Chunyan Li (Beijing Institue of Genomics, 6/2016¨C12/2017)
Yudong Li (Zhejiang Gongshang University, 8/2011¨C9/2012)
Lingxiang Liu (Nanjing Medical Univeristy, 8/2014¨C8/2015)
Xiaoyan Xu (Chinese Medicial University, 11/2014¨C11/2017)
Postdoctoral Fellows
Hussein Abbas
Current Position: Assistant Professor, MD Anderson
Mei-Ju Chen
Current Position: Postdoctoral Fellow, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Zhongqi Ge
Current Position: Computational Scientist, MD Anderson
Leng Han
Current Position: Associate Professor, Texas A&M University
Parisa Imanirad
Current Position: Clinical Director of Bioinformatics, CureMatch
Xinxin Peng
Current Position: Principal Bioinformatics Scientist, Precision Scientific
Mingchu Xu
Current Position: Computational Scientist, MD Anderson
Wei Zhao
Current Position: Staff Scientist, National Cancer Institute
Research Scientists
Hong Kim
Current Position: Research Scientist, MD Anderson