Tang Lab @ UChicago

Current Members

Weixin Tang

Weixin Tang

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor

weixintang_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2015-2019, Postdoc, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT (Advisor: David R. Liu)
  • 2009-2015, Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Advisor: Wilfred van der Donk)
  • 2005-2009, B.S. in Chemistry and Biology, Tsinghua University (Advisor: Aijun Tong)
Honors & Awards:
  • 2022 – Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering
  • 2021 – NIBIB Trailblazer Award
  • 2021 – Searle Scholar
  • 2016-2019 – HHMI Fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research

 

Post-docs

Yulan Xiao

Yulan Xiao

Post-doc

yulanxiao_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2011-2016, Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (Advisor: Xingang Zhang)
  • 2007-2011, B.S. in Pharmaceutical Sciences, Wuhan University (Advisor: Haibing Zhou)
Hao Yan

Hao Yan

Post-doc

yanhao_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2014-2018, Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of New Mexico (Advisor: Fu-Sen Liang)
  • 2008-2011, M.S. in Chemistry, Beijing Normal University (Advisor: Zhong-Lin Lu)
  • 2004-2008, B.S. in Chemistry, Beijing Normal University (Advisor: Zhong-Lin Lu)
Hui Chen

Hui Chen

Post-doc

huichen17_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2021-2023, Post-doc, medical chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Science and Institute for Immunology, Tsinghua University (Advisor: Prof. Xuebin Liao, Prof. YUNCAI LIU)
  • 2016-2021, Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry, School of Pharmaceutical Science, Tsinghua University (Advisor: Prof. Xuebin Liao)
  • 2012-2016, B.S. in Chemistry, Northwest A&F University (Advisor: Prof. Yongqian Xu, Prof. Xuebin Liao)

Graduate Students

Emily He

Emily He

Graduate Student

emilyhe_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2016-2020, B.S. in Biochemistry and Minor in Art & Design, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Advisor: Patrick O’Brien)
Siyuan Zou

Siyuan Zou

Graduate Student

siyuanzou_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2017-2021, B.S. in Chemistry, Fudan University (Advisors: Qiuqin He & Dang Cheng)
Quan Duong

Quan Duong

Graduate Student

duongquan_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2019-2023, B.S. in Chemistry, Tohoku University (Advisors: Shin Mizukami & Toshiyuki Kowada)
Yuan Wu

Yuan Wu

Graduate Student

yuanw_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2016-2020, B.S. in Chemistry, Nanjing University (Advisor: Huan Wang)
Sandrine Legault

Sandrine Legault

Graduate Student

slegault_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2018-2021, M.S. in Chemistry, University of Ottawa (Advisor: Roberto Chica)
  • 2014-2018, B.S. in Biochemistry, University of Ottawa (2017-2018, Advisor: Roberto Chica)
Iva Mohora

Iva Mohora

Graduate Student

imohora_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2021-2022, M.S. in Genomics, University of Belgrade (advisor: Dušanka Savić-Pavićević)
  • 2017-2021, B.S. Hons in Molecular biology and physiology, University of Belgrade
Alvin Huang

Alvin Huang

Graduate Student

alvinhuang_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2017-2021, B.S. in Chemical Biology, University of California – Berkeley (Advisors: Michael Botchan and Matthew Parker)
Jialiang Quan

Jialiang Quan

Graduate Student

jlquan_at_uchicago.edu

  • 2018-2023, B.S. in Chemical Biology, Xiamen University (Advisors: Shoufa Han)

Undergraduate Researchers

Hannah Parish

Hannah Parish

Undergraduate Student

hparish_at_uchicago.edu

  • UChicago Molecular Engineering & Math, Class of 2025
Samarth Ram

Samarth Ram

Undergraduate Student

samarthram_at_uchicago.edu

  • UChicago Chemistry, Class of 2027
Breanna Yartey

Breanna Yartey

Undergraduate Student

byartey_at_uchicago.edu

  • UChicago B.S. in Chemistry, Class of 2025

Pets

Kiki

Kiki

(Emily He)

Kiwi

Kiwi

(Jialiang Quan)

Daisy

Daisy

(Sandrine Legault)