Current Lab Members


Yin Shen
Yin Shen, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator


 

 

Jing Wang
Jing Wang, Ph.D.
Associate Specialist


 

 






 

Han Yang
Han Yang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

Larry L. Hillblom
Foundation Postdoctoral
Fellowship, 2023-2026

NIH Pathway to Independent Award (K99/R00), 2026

UCSF Dean's Awards for Excellence in Mentoring Honorable Mention, 2‌026

Zhen Ye
Zhen Ye
Lab Manager


 
 
 

 


 

Yuxi Liu
Yuxi Liu, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow

 
 



 
Ruirui Huang
Ruirui Huang, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow




 

 

 

Wenyan Wu
Wenyan Wu, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Fellow



 

 


 

Thu Pham
Thu Pham
PSPG Graduate Student

ARCS Fellowship, 2024-25

UCSF-Stanford CERSI
Scholar, 2025-27

PhRMA Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2026-27

Zoe Chen
Zoe Chen
BMI Graduate Student
 



 

Lingyi Xu

Lingyi Xu
DDS Student

Dental Student
Research Fellow, 2025-2026
 

Andrew Pham
Andrew Pham
Neuroscience Graduate
Student (MSTP)


 
 

 





 Carlos Arevalo
High School Intern


 

Former Lab Member

Year Left

Name

Position at Shen Lab

Current Position

2026

Jesse Gerwein

Visiting Undergraduate

Undergraduate,

Wesleyan University

 

2026

Jin Zhu

Junior Specialist

Ph.D. graduate student, 

Cornell University,

Genetics, Genomics, and Development

2025

Yifan Sun

Junior Specialist

Ph.D. graduate student,

Medical College of Wisconsin,

Biomedical Sciences

2025

Xiekui Cui, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Assistant Professor,

Emory University, 

Human Genetics

2025

Ian Jones, Ph.D.

PSPG student

Post-Doctoral Scholar, 

Stanford University

 

2025

Xingjie Ren, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Assistant professor,

Nanjing University, 

Institute of Modern Biology

2024

Jesse Gerwein

Summer Intern

Undergraduate,

Wesleyan University

 

2024

Michaiah Pettway

Summer Intern

Undergraduate.

University of San Francisco

 

2024

Xiaoyu Yang, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Director,

Genomics Core at Cleveland Clinic 

Lerner Research Institute

2023

Briana Li

URA from Berkeley

 

2023

JJ Vivek

Junior Specialist

Medical student,

University of Illinois, Chicago

 

2023

Cooper Beaman

Junior Specialist

Graduate student,

UCLA

 

2022

Zachary Amador

UCSF Summer Research

Training Program (SRTP)

Undergraduate,

UC Riverside

 

2022

Cady Chen

High School Volunteer

Undergraduate,

Columbia University

 

2022

Hao Liu

Visiting Undergraduate Student

Junior Specialist, 

UCSF

 

2022

Charles Cai

Junior Specialist



 

2022

Hongjiang Liu

Visiting Undergraduate Student

Ph.D. graduate student,

Cornell University

 

2022

Lazaros Lataniotis

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Sr. Scientist,

Sana Biotechnology, 

South San Francisco.

2021

Michael Yu

Lincoln High School Intern

 

 

 

2021

Bingkun (Alex) Li

Junior Specialist

Master student, 

The Erasmus+ International Master

 in Innovative Medicine (IMIM)

2021

Kirsty Jamieson

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Research Scientist, 

Invitae

 

2020

Niko Eng

Master Student

Scientist, 

TRex Bio

 

2020

Michael Song

PSPG Graduate Student

Scientist, 

Monte Rosa Therapeutics

 

2020

Asami Takagi

Junior Specialist

Medical School Student,

Central Michigan

 

2020

Jerry Lee

Junior Specialist

Graduate Student,

University of Chicago

 

2019

Lenka Maliskova

Research Associate

Associate Specialist,

Functional Genomics Lab,

UCSF

2019

Brian Tong

Woodbridge High School

Summer Intern

High School Student,

Woodbridge High School

 

2019

Brianna Li

Lowell High School Summer Intern 

(2018-19)

Undergraduate,

UC Berkeley

 

2019

Ian Jones

Junior Specialist

Graduate Student,

UCSF

 

2019

Seth Bergenholtz

Junior Specialist

Medical School Student,

Boston University

 

2019

Tsz Wai (David) Tam

Junior Specialist

Graduate student,

University of Hong Kong

 

2017

Jonghoon (John) Chang

Junior Specialist

Graduate student,

Georgetown University

 

2017

Lydia Liu

Lowell High School Summer Intern

Undergraduate,

John Hopkins University

 

2016

Yuan Wang (Simon), Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Postdoctoral scholar,

Harvard University

 

2016

Vasco Morais

CIRM Intern

Undergraduate,

UC Davis

 

2016

Gabrielle Kleyner

Summer Intern

Undergraduate,

Rutgers University

 

2016

Seokho Kim, Ph.D.

Post-Doctoral Scholar

Scientist,

National Institute of Animal Science,

Republic of Korea

2016

Jean Badroos

Work Study Undergraduate

(UC Berkeley)

Undergraduate,

UC Berkeley

 

2015

Yien-Ming Kuo, Ph.D.

Specialist

Morphology Core Director,

Ophthalmology Department,

UCSF