Current Members
Lixin Wan, Ph.D., PI
Lixin received his PhD from the Insitute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. He did his postdoc at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. He joined Moffitt in 2016 in the Department of Molecular Oncology as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to Associated Professor in 2022. Lixin has strong expertise in protein biochemistry, tumor cell biology and signal transduction.
Yifeng Gao, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
After graduation from China Agricultural University with a B.S. degree in Chemistry, I pursued a Ph.D. degree in Cancer Biology studying Epigenetics in the University of Alabama at Birmingham. My training as a postdoc started at MD Anderson Cancer Center where I focused on EMT and metastasis in cancer. Then it continued here at Moffitt Cancer Center in p53 and lncRNAs. Now in the Wan Lab, the main focus of my study is to understand how cancer cells manipulate protein post-translational modification processes to alter central signaling pathways, promoting enhanced proliferation and resistance to drugs.
Yaser Gamallat, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
Yaser obtained his PhD from Dalian medical University, Dalian, China.
Alumni
- Qing Yin, PhD, Postdoc, 2016-2023
- Tao Han, PhD, Postdoc, 2016-2020
- Xiu Yin, MS, Visting Scholar, 2018-2019
- Shulong Jiang, MD, Visting Scholar, 2016-2017
- Margaret Little, BS, SPARK student, 2016