Meet the Qi Lab

Our Team

Jun Qi, PhD

Principal Investigator

Qi Liu, PhD

Scientist I

Xianke Meng, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Samantha Bevill, PhD

co-mentored with Dr. Bradley Bernstein

Chen Song, PhD

Xiuqi Wang, PhD

Orville Kirkland

Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB), Harvard University

Hongfang received her B.S. in Biotechnology from Northwest A&F University and later earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Her doctoral research focused on investigating compounds derived from natural plants, where she primarily contributed to validating their anti-tumor effects and exploring the underlying mechanisms. After graduation, she worked at a company where she gained experience in genome editing and gene therapy. She joined the Qi Lab in April

Hongfang Zhao, PhD

Postdoc Fellow

Caleb O'Donnell Heaslip

Research Technician

Attached Researchers

Alumni

Dingding Gao (04/2023-03/2024, Visiting Scientist)
PI at Shanghai University of TCM

Keting Bao (10/2023-03/2024, Research Technician)

Michelle Wang (08/2021-06/2023, Lead Technician)
Graduate Student in PhD Program at U Penn

Tingjian Wang (08/2019-11/2022, Postdoc Fellow)
Physician Scientist at Xiangya Hospital, Hunan, China

Priscilla Liow (07/2020-07/2022, Research Technician)
Graduate student in PhD program at Harvard University, Chemistry and Chemical Biology)

Yu Liang (07/2020-06/2022, Research Technician)
Graduate student in PhD program at UC Santa Barbara

Logan Sigua, (05/2019-05/2022, Sr. Research Technician)
Graduate student in MD/PhD program at UC San Diego

Lingling Dai, PhD. (11/2017-08/2021, Postdoctoral Fellow)
Senior Scientist at AstraZeneca

Sang Vo, (09/2020-03/2021, Post-Bacc. Fellow U Mass Boston)
University of Minnesota, MD/PhD program

Adam Durbin, M.D., Ph.D. (08/2018-08/2020, Instructor, co-mentored with Drs. Tom Look and Kim Stegmaier)
Assistant Professor, St. Jude

Deyao Li, Ph.D. (10/2018-06/2020, Postdoc Fellow)
Postdoc Fellow, MSKCC

Virangika K. Wimalasena (06/2018-05/2020, Research Technician)
Graduate student at Johns Hopkins

Paul MC Park (10/2016-07/2019, Research Technician)
Graduate Student at Harvard Medical School

Lei Wu, Ph.D. (08/2016 - 12/2018, Postdoc Fellow)
Senior Scientist at QL Regor

Mousheng Xu, Ph.D. (05/2016 - 11/2017, Bioinformatic Analyst II)
Senior Statistical Geneticist at Booz Allen Hamilton

Jennifer Perry, Ph.D. (01/2016 - 07/2017, Senior Scientist)
Associate Director for the Center of Pediatric Cancer Therapeutics at DFCI

Matthew Lawlor (01/2016 - 09/2017, Bioinformatic Analyst I)
Research Technician at MGH

Nana Kwaku Offei-Addo (08/2016 - 11/2017, Research Technician)
Research Associate at Generation Bio

Michael Xiang (2016, 2017, Summer Intern)
Undergraduate student at Johns Hopkins

Morgan Schwartz (2018, Summer Intern)
Undergraduate student at The University of Vermont

Paula Zoutine (2018, Intern)
Undergraduate student at Boston University