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Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia
Principle Investigator
Shengyi (Iris) Sun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pharmacology
University of Virginia
B.S. University of Hong Kong, 2009
Ph.D. Cornell University, 2015
Postdoctoral Fellow, UT Southwestern, 2019
HHMI International Predoctoral Fellow, 2011-14
Helen Hay Whitney Fellow, 2017-19
Lab Members
Zhenfeng Song, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
Email: zfr5qe@virginia.edu
Yue Lois He, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
Email: fvq7sj@virginia.edu
Linyao (Elina) Zhou
Graduate Student (Physiology PhD)
Email: hgw9mb@virginia.edu
Yu-Zen (Kevin) Chen, Ph.D.
Research Scientist (co-mentored)
Email: yc9jp@virginia.edu
Liangguang (Leo) Lin, Ph.D.
Research Scientist (co-mentored)
Email: pwr3we@virginia.edu
Yujun Quan, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow (co-mentored)
Email: bjy9cv@virginia.edu
Huilun (Helen) Wang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow (co-mentored)
Email: kma8py@virginia.edu
Xiaoqiong Wei, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow (co-mentored)
Email: hfm7zc@virginia.edu
Alumni
Nusrat Jahan Tushi (Graduate student, UVA 2019-2025)
Haixia Wang (Postdoctoral fellow, 2023-2025)
Linxiu (Lisa) Pan (Research assistant, 2023-2025)
Stephen Hippleheuser (Graduate student, CMMG MS, 2019-2021)
Shaobin Feng (Visiting scholar, 2019-2020)
Jessica Zhao (M.D. student, 2020-2021)
Tejas Karun (Undergraduate student, 2021-2022)
Pattaraporn (Patty) Thepsuwan (Research assistant, 2019-2023)
Zhijuan Gong (Research associate, 2022-2023)
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