Tsang Lab @ Yale

We foster a diverse and supportive research environment comprising computational biologists, physician scientists, experimental biologists, hybrid scientists (both computational and experimental), and quantitative modelers with cross-disciplinary expertise and backgrounds.

Principal Investigator
Professor of Immunobiology and Biomedical Engineering
Director, Yale Center for Systems and Engineering Immunology (CSEI)
Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator
Systems immunology; computational biology; design principles of biological systems

Shubham Tripathi, PhD

Bollinger Ingelheim Data Science Postdoc Fellow
Multicale modeling and design principles of immune memory

Andrew Johnston, MD PhD

Dermatology and Immunobiology Fellow
Skin-blood interface; tissue organization and dermatological disorders

Leon Bichmann, PhD

Computational Biologist (Associate Research Scientist)
Systems immunology of immune development; immune variation of the maternal-infant dyad; database infrastructure in research

Can Liu, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Systems immunology of the maternal-infant dyad; tissue trafficking and immune cell homeostasis in tissues

Yona Lei, BS

MSTP MD/PhD student
Systems immunology of unconventional immune memory; early tumor-immune interactions; influenza infection and vaccination

Anis Barmada, MPhil

MSTP MD/PhD student (co-mentor with Carrie Lucas)
Dirty mice; bystander immune activation

Ao Huang, BS

Yale Computational Biology PhD student
Integrating machine learning and dynamical modeling to dissect immune response dynamics

Shoham Benmelech, BS

Yale Biomedical Engineering PhD student; NSF Graduate Fellow
Mechanosensing signature of T cells; maternal-infant systems immunology

Christine Dien, BS

Yale Computational Biology PhD student
Tissue systems immunology; systems immunology of allergy

Loïc De Doncker, MD

Visiting Fellow from the European Plotkin Institute for Vaccinology
Maternal-infant systems immunology

Rebecca Santano, PhD

Visiting Fellow from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health
Systems immunology of malaria vaccination and infection

Meirav Sela, MS

Lab Manager/Research Associate
Human subject study coordination; human immune profiling and immune stimulation assays; lab management practices

Roy Jiang, MD PhD

Dermatology Fellow
Systems immunology of early tumor development

Program & Administration Team

Allysia Matthews, PhD

CSEI Scientific Program Manager
Cross-center project development; program project and center grant development; training grants; grant support

Elizabeth Ferris, BS

CSEI CoordinatorSenior Administrative Assistant
Process automation; project management

Alumni

Alumni (incomplete list)

Andrew Martins, PhD (Postdoc and then Staff Scientist)

Current: Assistant Professor of Immunobiology (CSEI), Yale University; Dr. Martins continues to be a partner and long-term collaborator of the lab.

Rachel Sparks, MD/MPH (Clinical Research Fellow)

Current: Assistant Clinical Investigator, NIAID, NIH

John Jung-Hwan Kim, PhD (Postdoc)

Current: Senior Scientist, AstraZeneca

Pedro Milanez-Almeida, PhD (Postdoc)

Current: Senior Data Scientist, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research

Harikesh Wong, PhD (Postdoc in Ronald Germain Lab; co-mentorship in systems immunology and quantitative modeling)

Current: Assistant Professor of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Kyemyung Park, MD/PhD (Biophysics PhD student, NIH/Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

Current: Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, UNIST (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology), South Korea

Nicholas Rachmaninoff, PhD (Computational Biology PhD student, NIH/Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

Current: Computational Biologist, GSK

Matthew Mulé, PhD (MSTP, NIH-Oxford-Cambridge PhD student)

Current: MSTP MD training, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; PhD University of Cambridge completed (joint mentorship with Ken Smith, Cambridge).

Can Liu, PhD (Computational and Experimental Immunology PhD student, NIH/Univ. of Maryland, College Park)

Current: Postdoc, Yale University

William Lau, PhD (Computational Biology PhD student, NIH/George Mason University)

Current: Staff Computational Biologist, NIH

Manikandan Narayanan, PhD (Staff computational biologist)

Current: Associate Professor, Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Zhi Xie, MD/PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)

Current: Professor, Sun Yat-sen University, China

Foo Cheung, PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)

Current: Staff Scientist, Center for Human Immunology, NIH

Angelique Biancotto, PhD (Staff scientist, CHI)

Current: Group Leader, Sanofi Pasteur

Yuri Kotliarov, PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)

Current: Computational Biologist, NCI

Richard Apps, PhD (Staff scientist, CHI)

Current: Staff scientist, CHI

Rohit Farmer, PhD (Staff computational biologist, CHI)

Current, Comptuational biologist, Vaccine Research Center, NIH

Yong Lu, PhD (Staff computational biologist)

Current: Software Engineer, Google

Naisha Shah, PhD (Postdoc)

Current: VP, Data Science, BioAge Labs

Bethany Fixsen, MD/PhD (Postbac --> MSTP MD/PhD UCSD)

Current: Medical Resident, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Candace Liu (Postbac)

Current: PhD student, Computational Immunology, Stanford University

Dylan Hirsch (Postbac)

Current: PhD student, Bioengineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Darius Mostaghimi (Postbac)

Current: MD student, Yale University

Milann Cox (Postbac)

Current: MD student, Pennsylvania State University

Kiera Vrindten (Postbac)

Current: MD student, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers University