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ALICIA GIBBONS, UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT (2021-2022)

Alicia was an undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG) at UCLA. She joined the Yang Lab in August 2021. Alicia worked with Zach Dunn on developing new iNKT cell therapies and increasing the persistence of iNKT […]
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Samuel Weijia Zeng, MD/PhD Student (2017-2021)

Sam received his B.A. degree in Biology from the Columbia University in 2014. He is currently an MD/PhD student at UCLA’s Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). He joined the Yang lab in July of 2017. Sam works on tumor immunology […]
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Joanne Zhe Li, Postdoctoral Scholar (2018-2021)

Joanne received her B.S. degree in Biological Science from the Peking University in 2012, and her Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Science from the University of Southern California (USC) in 2018. Her Ph.D. thesis work developed a novel temperature-dependent switch for […]
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Jie Huang, Lab Manager (2019-Current)

Jie Huang received her B.S. degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from the East China University of Science and Technology, her M.S. degree in Molecular Biology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 2005, and a second M.S. in Computer Science […]
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Iris Bai, Undergraduate Student (2020-2022)

Iris was an undergraduate student majoring in Molcecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) at UCLA. She joined the Yang Lab in January 2020. Iris worked with Dr. Joanne Zhe Li on developing “off-the-shelf” CAR-iNKT cell therapies for solid tumors. Besides […]
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Emily Peng, Undergraduate Student (2020-2022)

Emily was an undergraduate student majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology (MCDB) with a minor in Biomedical Research at UCLA. She joined the Yang Lab in January of 2020. Emily worked with Dr. Bo Li and Alice Yang Zhou […]
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Noah Cook, Undergraduate Student (2019-2021)

Noah was an undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG) at UCLA. He joined the lab in July of 2019. Noah worked with Charlie Yanruide Li on developing iNKT cell-based immunotherapies for a wide range of cancers. […]
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Natalie Penn, Undergraduate Student (2019-2022)

Natalie was an undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG) with a minor in Biomedical Research at UCLA. She joined the Yang Lab in April of 2019. Natalie worked with Derek on developing γδ T cell-based immunotherapies […]
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Sean Yuchong Zhang, Undergraduate Student (2019-2021)

Sean was an undergraduate student majoring in Physiological Science (Physci) at UCLA. He joined the Yang Lab in February of 2019. Sean worked with Victor Jiaji Yu on developing CAR-T cell-based cancer immunotherapies. Besides research, Sean enjoyed soccer, model building, […]
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Zoe Hahn, Undergraduate Student (2018-2021)

Zoe was an undergraduate student majoring in Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics (MIMG) at UCLA. She joined the Yang Lab in September of 2018. Zoe worked with Victor Jiaji Yu on engineering T cells for cancer immunotherapy. Besides research, Zoe […]
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