Lab Members

Li Qian, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Professor of Pathology

Contact: li_qian@med.unc.edu

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Laboratory Personnel

Nick Yapundich

Laboratory Manager and Technician (BS)

Contact: nickyap@live.unc.edu

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Junior Faculty

Haofei Wang, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Contact: hfwang@email.unc.edu

 

Postdoctoral Fellows 

Yifang Xie, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact: yfxie@email.unc.edu

 

Gregory Farber, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact: gfarber@email.unc.edu

 

Brian Spurlock, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact: brian_spurlock@med.unc.edu

 

Yu Zhao, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Contact: yuzha@email.unc.edu

 

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Graduate Students

Shea Ricketts

Graduate Student (PhD candidate)

Pathobiology and Translational Science

Contact: rikashea@email.unc.edu

 

Paige Takasugi

Graduate Student (MD, PhD candidate)

Pathobiology and Translational Science

Contact: paige_takasugi@med.unc.edu

 

Rachelle Ambroise

Graduate Student (MD, PhD student) 

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Contact: rachelle_ambroise@med.unc.edu

 

Yiran Song

Graduate Student (PhD student)

Biostatistics

Contact: yrsong@email.unc.edu

 

Chelsea Li

Graduate Student (MD, PhD candidate)

Pathobiology and Translational Science

Contact: chelsli@email.unc.edu

 

 

 

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Undergraduate Students

Ramya Meenakshi Nishtala

2021 – Present, Mentored by Yifang Xie

Neuroscience Major

 

Xingyan “Cindy” Liu

2022 – Present, Mentored by Haofei Wang 

Biostatistics Major

 

Michael Wang

2023 – Present, Mentored by Huitong Shi

Biochemistry Major

 

Celine Keles

2023 – Present, Mentored by Shea Ricketts 

Neuroscience and Biostatistics Major 

 

Dhruv Garg

2024 – Present, Mentored by Paige Takasugi

Biostatistics Major