Alumni
Alumni
2023
Lillian Kay Petersen: Lillian was an undergraduate student at Harvard majoring in Applied Math / Molecular Biology. Her research interests include infertility GWAS and machine learning for better genetic predictions. Outside of work, she enjoys trail running and playing guitar.
Garyk Brixi: Garyk was an undergraduate student studying computer science at Harvard, class of 2023. His interests include polygenic risk scores and machine learning.
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2022
Marius Weidmann (2022-2023): Marius was a second-year SM student in Computational Biology and Quantitative Genetics at the Department of Biostatistics. His research focuses on method development for polygenic risk prediction and utilizing cross-trait information for increased model accuracy.
Present: Assistant Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School; Assistant Professor in the Departments of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). The main area of Jun’s research focuses on the identification of genetic, epigenetic and metabolic factors for cardiometabolic disease, and mechanisms through which lifestyle factors and diet impact human health, using multi-omics integration approaches.
Previously:
Worked with Dr. Frank B. Hu and Dr. Liming Liang in the Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at HSPH:
8/2016-5/2019 Postdoc fellow
6/2019-1/2020 Research Associate
2/2020-3/2022 Research Scientist
Present:
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Assistant Professor, Department of Nutrition, HSPH (secondary)
Websites:
BWH Preventive Medicine: https://prevmed.bwh.harvard.edu/jun-li-md-phd/
Harvard Catalyst: https://connects.catalyst.harvard.edu/Profiles/display/Person/124442
HSPH: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/jun-li/
2021
Xikun Han, PhD (2021-2022): Xikun was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology, Program in Genetic Epidemiology and Statistical Genetics at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, mentored by Dr. Liang. Prior to joining the lab, Xikun earned his Ph.D. in statistical genetics from QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute & University of Queensland in Australia under the supervision of Prof. Stuart MacGregor. His research focuses on the genetics of complex disorders, especially eye diseases and asthma. He is interested in developing new statistical and computational tools for multi-omics data. He leverages large-scale biobanks and multi-omics data to characterize genetic architecture, predict disease risk, and discover new drug targets.
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2020
Shujian Zhu (2018-2020): Shujian was an SM student in Biostatistics (CBQG). Currently she is a Data Scientist at Aetna, Wellesley MA.
Qian Xiao (2018-2020): Qian was an SM student in Biostatistics (CBQG).
Lu Zhu: Lu was an SM student in Epidemiology.
Jiaxuan Zhao (2018-2020): Jiaxuan was an SM student in Biostatistics.
Now: Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hosital & Harvard Medical School.
2017-2020, postdoc fellow with Dr. Liming Liang and Dr David Christiani. I received doctoral of science degree in Environmental and Molecular Epidemiology at Harvard T.H.Chan School of Public Health. My research interests mainly include identifying the shared effect of genetic and epigenetic components for respiratory and immune illnesses, such as asthma, allergy and COPD using large scale UK Biobank and GWAS consortium data, and I hope to transform the research findings into community prevention and clinical intervention.
Awards:
2020 Winner, Metabolism Journal’s Junior Faculty Member Award1
2018 Top 10% reviewers’ select abstract, American Society of Human Genetics
2018 Rose Traveling Fellowship, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2018 Program in Quantitative Genomic Travel Fellowship, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
2017 Post-Doc Association Travel Fellowship, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
1Zhu Z#, Hasegawa K, Ma B, Fujiogi M, Camargo CA Jr, Liang L*. (2020) Association of obesity and its genetic predisposition with the risk of severe COVID-19: Analysis of population-based cohort data. Metabolism. 2020 Aug 22;112:154345.
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2019
Dr. Baoshan Ma, PhD (2012-2013, 2018-2019): Visiting post-doc research fellow from College of Information Science and Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian, China
Yunqi Wang (2017-2019): M.S. student in CBQG. Yunqi is currently a Ph.D. student in Genetics, Genomics & Systems Biology at the University of Chicago. Research interest: methodology development for statistical genetics.
Wonil Chung, PhD (2014-2019): Former post-doctoral Fellow at HSPH Awards: Semifinalist for the 2018 Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards for Excellence in Human Genetics Research for the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, San Diego, California, October 16-20, 2018. Current: faculty of Soongsil University, South Korea
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2018
Xinan Wang: Former PhD student in Professor David Christiani’s Lab, Molecular Epidemiology Environmental Health Track, Population Health Science Program, HSPH.
Bingchen Shan (2017-2018): Graduated with a Master’s degree at MIT in financial mathematics.
Yichen Guo (2015-2018): Former ScD student in Biostatistics and Environmental Health (dissertation co-advisor) Current: Data Scientist in Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson
Qianyu Yuan (2016-2018): Former MS student and now PhD candidate in Population Health Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Tianyu Jia (2017-2019). Former M.S. student in Biostatistics. Current: Biostatistics Manager in Biometrics Department at BeiGene USA, Inc. Her research focuses include statistical genomics, anti-PDL1 cancer immunotherapy treatment and its adverse drug reactions.
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2017
Liu Cao (2016-2017): Former MS student of Biostatistics (CBQG) Current: PhD candidate of Computational Biology, Carnegie Mellon University. Liu is currently working on the metagenomics, metabolomics, small microbial molecule discovery and computational mass spectrometry.
Yen-Chen (Anne) Feng (2012-2017): Former doctoral student (dissertation advisor). Now postdoc fellow with Ben Neale at the Broad Institute. Program in Quantitative Genomics (PQG) Student/Postdoc Travel Fund recipient.
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2016
Shaun Aron (2016-2016): Visiting scientist from Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) Initiative. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/biostatistics/2016/03/visiting-scientist-interview-shaun-aron/
Mark Chaffin (2015-2016): Former MS student (thesis advisor). Now Associate Computational Biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard studying the genetic basis of cardiovascular disease.
Jackie Gao: Former summer intern. A sophomore at UC Berkeley pursuing a double major in biology and either computer science or data science.
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2015
Biqi Wang, PhD: Former Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Department of Biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health
Xiaohui Du: Former visiting MS student, Now at PhD program, Department of Respiratory Medicine, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science & Technology.
Ga Liao, PhD (2014-2015): Former visiting post-doc fellow. Associate Professor of Oral Basic Medicine, State key Laboratory of Oral Diseases Director of Information Technology Department of West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University Vice Chairman of the Information Management Branch of China Stomatological Association
Zhonghua Liu (2010-2015): Former doctoral student (dissertation co-advisor). Zhonghua then joined Xihong Lin’s group as postdoc fellow. He is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science at the University of Hong Kong.
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2014
Jun Chen, PhD (2012-2014): Former Post-doc research fellow. Now Senior Associate Consultant and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Division of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics, Mayo Clinic Rochester.
Jinyan Huang, PhD (2012-2014): Former Post-doc research fellow. Now Associate professor of Bioinformatics worked at Shanghai Institute of Hematology (SIH) and National Research Center for Translational Medicine Shanghai (NRCTM). Research focused on leukemia, especially for acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Email: jinyan@shsmu.edu.cn
Chaolong Wang, PhD (2012-2014): Former post-doc research fellow. 2015-2017, Senior Investigator at Genome Institute of Singapore (affiliated with department of Computational and Systems Biology and department Human Genetics). 2017- now, Professor in the Tongji School of Public Health, Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. His research focuses on statistical genomics.
Wan Xu (2012-2014): Former MS student. Wan is now Vice President of Quantitative Analytics at Barclays.
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2013
Xuefeng (Peter) Wang, PhD (2011-2013): Former post-doc research fellow. Now Assistant Member / Assistant Professor, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
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2012
Hua Chen, PhD (2011-2012): Former post-doc research fellow.
Xiaochen Lin (2010-2012): Former MS student. Xiaochen then joined the PhD program Department of Epidemiology UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and now senior outcomes research associate at Optum.