Lab Members
Taiping Chen, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Professor
TChen2@MDAnderson.org
M.D., Clinical Medicine, Xi'an Medical University, China
M.S., Biology, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA
Ph.D., Molecular and Cell Biology, McGill University, Canada
Research Interests: Regulation and functions of DNA methylation and histone modifications in mammals
Swanand Hardikar, M.S.
Research Investigator
SHardikar@MDAnderson.org
B.S., Microbiology, University of Mumbai, India
Post-Graduate Diploma, Clinical Analysis, University of Mumbai, India
M.S., Biology, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
Research Interests: Identification and characterization of DNA methylation regulators; ICF syndrome
Bigang Liu, M.S.
Research Investigator
BILiu@MDAnderson.org
M.S., Pharmacology, West China University of Medicine, China
Research Interests: IKK alpha and Nanog in cancer; epigenetic regulators in mammalian development
Former Students and Postdocs
Tewfik Hamidi, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow/Research Scientist
Current Position:
Senior Research Associate
OHSU School of Medicine
Nicolas Veland, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Current Position:
Postdoctoral Fellow,
King's College London and
The Francis Crick Institute
Soojin Kim, Ph.D.
Instructor
Current Position:
Clinical Research Scientist
PRA Health Sciences, Austin, TX
Jeesun Kim, Ph.D.
Instructor
Current Position:
Research Associate and Lab Manager
Dell Pediatric Research Institute
Brendan Jones, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Partner and Patent Attorney,
Foley Hoag LLP, Lexington, MA
Jing Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Patent Attorney, Senior Patent Counsel
Sanofi, Cambridge, MA
David Ciccone, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Senior Director, Immunology and Immuno-Oncology
Nimbus Therapeutics, Cambridge, MA
Thomas Nicholson, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Senior Principal Scientist, Novartis Institutes for
BioMedical Research, Cambridge, MA
Naomi Tsujimoto, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Scientist, Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Boston, MA
Hongbo Zhao, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Associate Professor, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Sebastian Bedford
Summer Intern
Current Position:
Senior Engineer, Samsung Semiconductor, Austin, TX
Amanda (Katie) Morgan (Davidson)
Summer Intern
Current Position:
Nurse Practitioner, Baylor College of Medicine
Guy Bedford
Summer Intern
Current Position:
Bioengineering Ph.D. candidate, Rice University
Jiameng Dan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Principal Investigator,
State Key Laboratory of Primate Biomedical Research
Kunming University of Science and Technology, China
Yang Zeng, Ph.D.
Graduate Student
Zhengzhou (Joe) Ying, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Current Position:
Associate Professor, Shandong University