Team — Shen Lab @ UPenn

Meet the Team

Dr. Hoang Dinh

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
PhD Chemical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University
Dr. Dimpi Mukhopadhyay

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW
PhD Cancer Biology, University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Dr. Xincheng Xu

MEDICAL STUDENT
BS Fudan University
PhD Princeton University
Dr. Yihui Shen

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Postdoc, Princeton University
PhD Chemistry, Columbia University
BA Chemistry, Peking University
Jiazhen Zhang

BE GRADUATE STUDENT
MS Biomedical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
BE Biomedical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University
Asimina Zoitou

BE GRADUATE STUDENT
MS, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
BS, Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Rowena Yin

CHEM MASTER STUDENT
BS Biochemistry, University of Washington
Mariam Rizvi

UNDERGRAD (CLASS 2026)
BA Computational Biology
Sameeksha Panda

UNDERGRAD (CLASS 2027)
Chemistry
YOU

THE FUTURE SCIENTIST

Come Join Us!

The Shen lab opened its door in Jan 2024 in the Bioengineering department at University of Pennsylvania. We welcome trainees from a variety of backgrounds including bioengineering, chemistry, biochemistry and biophysics, metabolism, computational biology, and related fields. Email Yihui if you are interested in exploring quantitative methods to understand metabolic programming in cancer and immune cells!

We aim to build an inclusive environment to support our trainees. We encourage students from underrepresented groups to apply to our BE graduate program. We also welcome students from other graduate programs. Don’t hesitate to talk to us if interested!

Bobby Tu

Yongqi Huang

Ricardo A. Velázquez Aponte

Alumni

BE rotation, 2024-2024, currently PhD student in Matthew Good Lab

Summer intern, 2024-2024, currently undergrad in Shanghai Jiaotong University

BMB rotation, 2024-2024, currently PhD student in Joseph Baur Lab

Jan 2024

Nov 2023

Sept 2023

NEWS

The Shen lab welcomes its first rotation student, Ricardo Velázquez Aponte! Ricardo is now a first-year PhD student in the BMB graduate group.

We are very excited to welcome Dr. Hoang Dinh to join the lab as a postdoctoral fellow! Hoang came to us from Prof. Costas Maranas’s group at Penn State University.

We installed our mass spec with our science partner in crime the Bartman Lab @ Penn Medicine 🙌🙌🙌 Ready to make great data out of it 🤩!! (Photo credit to @CarolineBartman)

April 2024

Mar 2024

We are very excited to have Jiazhen Zhang (BE Master program) and Anushka Chintamaneni (BE undergrad) join the lab! They will have some fun exploring machine learning in analyzing Raman spectra.

We got our first funding support from Center for Engineering MechanoBiology (CEMB) seed program to study mechanoregulation of cancer metabolism! Thanks CEMB for supporting our science