Zhe Ying PhD
Principle Investigator
Zhe Ying, PhD, is an Assistant professor in the Department of Cell, Developmental, and Regenerative Biology. Zhe got his PhD from Sun Yat-sen University in 2014, where he received the Ray Wu Prize. Before he joins Mount Sinai, Zhe was a postdoctoral fellow with Dr. Slobodan Beronja at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. His postdoctoral work on epithelial cell fate change during tumor initiation was sponsored by the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) and the Thomsen Family Breast Cancer Fellowship. In the lab, Zhe is obsessed with exploring epithelial biology using cutting-edge technologies that can test and visualize gene function in vivo. In addition, Zhe enjoys reading books of the history of science and technology as booster of curiosity and motivation since high school. Outside of the lab, Zhe loves cycling, hiking, kayaking, road trips and photography.
zhe.ying@mssm.edu
Qiwen Gan PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
AACR Bosarge Family Foundation-Waun Ki Hong Fellow for Regenerative Cancer Medicine
Qiwen got his PhD from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018. He studied apoptotic cell clearance and lysosome homeostasis in Caenorhabditis elegans. Realizing his interest in cancer biology, Qiwen did a two-year postdoc in the Iavarone lab at Columbia University to study Glioma. In February 2022, Qiwen joined the Ying lab and initiated two exciting projects, one to understand how the combinations of patient derived genetic lesions drive the basal-like cell fate in breast cancer and the second to identify major barriers of salivary gland regeneration. In 2023 Qiwen received the AACR Bosarge Family Foundation-Waun Ki Hong Scholar Award for Regenerative Cancer Medicine. Qiwen enjoys playing badminton and spending time exploring New York City with his family outside of the lab.
qiwen.gan@mssm.edu