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Stanford Bioengineering & ChEM-H

Principal Investigator

  • Lei (Stanley) Qi

    Lei (Stanley) Qi


    Associate Professor

    BIO

The Qi Lab brings together a diverse team of scientists and engineers who are excited about tackling hard problems, learning quickly, and building tools that make biology more controllable and understandable.

Staff Scientists and Administrators

  • Brandon Seale

    Brandon Seale


    Faculty Administrator

    BIO

  • Alisilani Alusa

    Alisilani Alusa


    Lab Manager

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Postdoctoral Scholars

  • Yanyu Zhu, Ph.D.

    Yanyu Zhu, Ph.D.


    Postdoctoral Scholar

    Dean's Fellowship

    BIO

  • Yitong Ma, Ph.D.

    Yitong Ma, Ph.D.


    Postdoctoral Scholar

    Cancer Research Institute Fellowship

    BIO

  • Emmy Li, Ph.D.

    Emmy Li, Ph.D.


    Postdoctoral Scholar

    MCHRI Fellowship | Dean's Fellowship | Wu Tsai Neuroscience Postdoctoral Scholar

    BIO

  • Alex Choi, Ph.D.

    Alex Choi, Ph.D.


    Postdoctoral Scholar

    American Heart Association Fellowship

    BIO

  • Tassilo Wachsmann, Ph.D.

    Tassilo Wachsmann, Ph.D.


    Postdoctoral Scholar

    Rubicon Fellowship

    BIO

  • Dongsheng (David) Han, Ph.D.

    Dongsheng (David) Han, Ph.D.


    Postdoctoral Scholar

    NIH F99/K00 Fellowship

    BIO

Graduate Students

  • Crystal Chen

    Crystal Chen


    Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering

    BioX Fellow

     BIO

  • Xinyi Chen

    Xinyi Chen


    Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

    BioX Fellow | Siebel Scholar

     BIO

  • Sa Cai

    Sa Cai


    Ph.D. Student, Materials Science and Engineering, co-advised by Guosong Hong

    BioX Fellow

     BIO

  • Goldie Roth

    Goldie Roth


    Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering

    BTP Fellow

     BIO

  • Izzi Gengaro

    Izzi Gengaro


    Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering

    SGF Fellow

     BIO

  • Maylin Fu

    Maylin Fu


    Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

    SGF Fellow

     BIO

  • Jon Bezney

    Jon Bezney


    Ph.D. Student, Genetics, co-advised by Lars Steinmetz

     BIO

  • Christian Otero

    Christian Otero


    Ph.D. Student, Chemical Engineering

    NSF GRFP

     BIO

  • Lorenzo Magni

    Lorenzo Magni


    Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering, co-advised by Lars Steinmetz

    BioX Fellow

     BIO

  • Sopida Pimcharoen

    Sopida Pimcharoen


    Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering, co-advised by Bingwei Lu

     BIO

  • Sofia Guerrero

    Sofia Guerrero


    Ph.D. Student, Neuroscience

    SGF Fellow

     BIO

  • Yinglin Situ

    Yinglin Situ


    Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

     BIO

  • Yuexuan Yang

    Yuexuan Yang


    Ph.D. Student, Bioengineering

    SGF Fellow

     BIO

Undergraduate Students and Visiting Students

  • Heloise Hoffmann

    Heloise Hoffmann


    Bioengineering

     BIO

Since 2014, the Qi Lab has trained more than 20 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and over 10 undergraduate researchers and research assistants. Our team has come from all over the world and many different backgrounds. We’re proud of what our alumni go on to do, and we continue to support them—whether they pursue academia, industry, startups, education, or paths beyond science.