Principal Investigator
Li Ding, PhD, is the David English Smith Distinguished Professor of Medicine at Washington University. Dr. Ding's research focuses on integrating cancer proteogenomics (including single cell and spatial omics), patient-derived cancer models, functional genomics, and drug development to advance cancer biology and precision medicine. This work spans many cancer types, including acute myeloid leukemia, breast cancer, kidney cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, glioblastoma, and multiple myeloma, with key findings including the identification and characterization of pathogenic germline variants and somatic cancer drivers, and discovery of age-related clonal hematopoiesis. Her research team has also developed widely-used computational tools, including VarScan, SciClone, BreakDancer, MSIsensor, Pindel-C, HotSpot3D, and MuSiC and she plays significant roles and co-chairs various groups within The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA), the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC), the Clinical Proteomic Tumor Analysis Consortium (CPTAC), the Patient-Derived Xenografts Development and Trial Centers Research Network (PDXNet), Patient Engagement and Cancer Genome Sequencing (PE-CGS), Cellular Senescence Network (SenNet), and Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN). She also serves on the Steering Committees of CPTAC, TCGA, PDXnet, PE-CGS, SenNet, and co-chairs the HTAN Steering Committee. Dr. Ding has been recognized several times among Thomson-Reuters’ surveys of influential researchers, including listing among “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds”, and was a member of a group honored with the American Association of Cancer Research Team Science Award for contributions to TCGA. Her work continues to be inspired by the ultimate goal of making personalized medicine a reality for cancer patients.
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Faculty and Staff
Postdocs
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Students
Affiliated Faculty, STAFF, AND STUDENTS
Feng Chen, Ph.D.
Kimberly Johnson, Ph.D.
Michael McLellan
Xiaoyan Wang, M.D.
Alumni
Ding Lab
Faculty, Staff & Postdocs
Qingsong Gao, Ph.D.
Kuan-lin Huang, Ph.D.
Dawn King, Ph.D.
Wen-Wei Liao
Jie Ning
Beifang Niu, Ph.D.
Clara Oh
Adam Scott, Ph.D.
Sohini Sengupta, Ph.D.
Sunantha Sethuraman, Ph.D., Postdoc
Lisa Thammavong
Jiayin Wang, Ph.D.
Amila Weerasinghe, Ph.D., Postdoc
Kai Ye, Ph.D.
Houxiang Zhu, Ph.D., Postdoc
Mamatha Serasanambati, Ph.D., Postdoc
Hua Sun, Ph.D., Postdoc
Wen-Wei Liang, Ph.D., Postdoc
Nataly Naser AL Deen, Ph.D., Postdoc
Hanin Elfandi
San Kwon
Yige Wu, Ph.D, Graduate Student first, then Postdoc
Andrew Shinkle
Rita Lu
Yanyan Zhao, Lab Technician
Kazuhito (Kazu) Sato, M.D. Ph.D., Postdoc
Nadezhda Terekhanova, Ph.D., Postdoc
Siqi Chen, M.D. Ph.D., Instructor in Medicine
Qingqing Li, Research Assistant
Atieh Abedin, Ph.D., Postdoc
Grant Rousseau, Research Technician I
Andrew Houston, Senior Research Technician
Graduate & Medical Students
Emily Luc (rotation)
Jimmy Zhong (rotation)
Isabel Risch (rotation)
Ling Liao, Graduate Student
Fankun Zeng (rotation)
Xiangyu Chen (rotation)
Liang-Bo "Bobo" Wang, Ph.D
Daniel Cui Zhou, Ph.D.
Douglas Abrams (rotation)
Daniel Mendez (rotation)
Winston Anthony (rotation)
Matthew Bailey, Ph.D.
JooHee Choi (rotation)
Emily Coonrod (rotation)
Jennifer Flynn (rotation)
Steven Foltz, Ph.D.
Arielle Homayouni (rotation)
Yang Li (rotation)
Shuangjia Lu (rotation)
Di Liu (visiting Graduate Student)
Ju Heon Maeng (rotation)
Peter Ronning (rotation)
Sam Sun, M.D.
Xinxin Wang (rotation)
Naomi Wilson (rotation)
Wing Hing Wong (rotation)
Mingchao Xie, Ph.D.
Yitan Chen (rotation)
Lijun Yao, Ph.D
Liting Zhang, Visiting PhD Student
Ruiyang Liu, Ph.D
Alice Kao (rotation)
Diana Odhiambo (rotation)
Christopher Yoon (Graduate Student)
Jennie Yao (rotation)
Undergraduate Students
Prag Batra
Maheetha Bharadwaj
Jonathan Chen
Justin Chen
Erin DeNardo
Nathan Dollinger
Guanlan Dong
Ani Gururaj
Malik Hadjri
Felix Hu
Mo Huang
Shrikar Iragavarapu
Caleb Ji
Sean Kelso
Akhil Kondepudi
Monica Lim
Carolyn Lou
Edwin Qiu
Rachana Reddy
Ryan Sachar
Moses Schindler
Terrence Tsou
Weihua Wang
Jessika Baral
Fred Hua
Akshay Govindan
Medical genomics
Ken Chen, Ph.D.
Nathan Dees, Ph.D.
Xian Fan
Chris Harris
Xin Hong
Mark Johnson
Krishna Kanchi
Dan Koboldt
David Larson, Ph.D.
Ling Lin
Charles Lu, Ph.D.
Rick Meyer
Chris Miller, Ph.D.
John Osbourne
William Schierding
Heather Schmidt
Dong Shen, Ph.D.
Yuzhu Tang, M.D.
Joelle Veizer
John Wallis, Ph.D.