Lab member

Xucheng Hou

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Research Assistant Professor, Icahn Genomics Institute & Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision       

  Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Yizhou Dong lab, 2024-2026

• Postdoc, Icahn Genomics Institute & Marc and Jennifer Lipschultz Precision Immunology Institute,

  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Yizhou Dong lab, 2022-2023

• Ph.D., Department of Pharmacology and Pharmaceutical Sciences, The Ohio State University,

  Yizhou Dong lab, 2017-2022

 

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

• Institute for Liver Research Pilot Feasibility Funding, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2025

• Junior Faculty Innovative Idea Prize, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, 2025

• Betty-ann Hoener Award in Pharmaceutics, The Ohio State University, 2021

• Professor Sylvan G. Frank Graduate Fellowship in Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry,

  The Ohio State University, 2020

• Poster Award, The 16th Annual Meeting of the Oligonucleotide Therapeutics Society, 2020

• Experimental Record Award, Peking Union Medical College, 2015

• Graduate National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2015

• Innovation Award in Novozymes (China) Life Sciences Conference, 2012

• Ashland Excellent Student Scholarship, Ashland Group, 2011

Zhi'an Hu

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Lecturer, School of Chemical and Biological Engineering,

  University of Science and Technology Beijing, 2022-Present

• Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry, Tsinghua University, 2017-2022

 

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• RNA and CRISPR-Cas engineering 

• Ultrasensitive biosensing and molecular diagnostics

Xiaowan Huang

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Research Fellow, Material Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, 2022-2024

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, South China University of Technology, 2017-2022

 

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• Targeted protein degradation

• Cancer immunotherapy

Tianbao Hu

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Project Manager, Chengdu Aupone Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd., 2025-2026

• Ph.D. in Pharmacy, Sichuan University, 2021-2025

 

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• Asymmetric synthesis

• Medicinal chemistry

Weilun Sun

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering,

  Beijing Institute of Technology and National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, 2022-2026

• M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2019-2022

• B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 2015-2019

 

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• mRNA delivery and therapeutics

• Mucosal mRNA vaccines

Liling Qin

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• M.S. in Pharmacy, Fudan University, 2023-2026

• B.S. in Pharmacy, China Pharmaceutical University, 2019-2023

 

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• Recombinant protein expression

• Bispecific antibody

Chenyu Zhao

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• B.S. in Pharmaceutical Science, Queen’s University of Belfast, 2023-2026

• B.S. in Pharmaceutical Science, China Medical Universit, 2022-2026

 

RESEARCH BACKGROUND

• Biomaterials in regenerative medicine 

• Database-driven research in respiratory diseases