Lab Members

Xin Chen, PhD
Professor and Co-Leader
UH Cancer Center, Cancer Biology Program
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Research interests:
genomic analysis of human gastrointestinal tumors, mainly liver and gastric cancers

Drew Yonemura
Research Associate, Lab Manager
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Research interests: molecular mechanisms in liver tumor development

Xue Wang
Research Specialist
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Research interests: AKT pathway in liver tumor development

Yanhui Wu
Visiting Scholar
Research interests: Wnt/beta-Catenin signaling during HCC pathogenesis

Meng Xu
Visiting scholar
Research interests: Notch signaling in liver cancer development

Juliette Doumergue
PhD graduate student
Research interests: Targeting YAP/TAZ-TEAD for the treatment of liver cancer

Yu Qiao
Postdoc fellow
Research interests: AXIN1/beta-Catenin signaling in liver cancer development

Jonathan Haynes
Master degree graduate student
Research interests: tumor immune microenvironment in liver cancers

Suhas Sampige Phaniraj
Master degree graduate student
Research interests: Combination therapy for liver cancer treatment

Former Lab Members

Lucie David
Visiting student, 2025
Current position: Student at University Cote d'Azur

Weiting Liao
Visiting graduate student, 2022 to 2024
Current position: Postdoc fellow at West China Hospital

Jinqiu Zhao
Visiting scholar, 2022 to 2024
Current position: Physician at The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University

Benjamin Green, MD
Research Specialist, 2022-2023
Current position: Assistant Professor, UH Cancer Center

Doris Yang, BS
Lab manager, 2023
Current position: Medical student at JABSOM

Guofei Cui, PhD
Postdoc fellow, 2022-2023
Current position: Postdoc fellow at UCSF

Ya Zhang
Visiting graduate student, 2023
Current position: graduate student in Chongqing University, China

Camille Monchatre
Visiting student, 2023
Current position: PharmD student in France

Joanne Chun, PharmD, PhD
Lab manager, 2022
Current position: School of Pharmacy, UCSF

Shanshan Deng, PhD
Postdoc fellow, 2022
Current position: Research Scientist, BridGene Biosciences, Inc.