Project Manager/Directors


Jennifer Li-Pook-Than, PhD

Director of Precision Health and Engagement Center 

http://med.stanford.edu/sphere/

jennlpt@stanford.edu

Jennifer Li-Pook-Than is the Director of Precision Health and Engagement Center.  She is dedicated to advancing precision health and expanding access to improved healthcare. She specializes in multi-omics and multimodal data integration, with expertise in transcriptomics, genomics, and cross-omics harmonization (iPOP), including epigenomic, and wearable datasets. Her work combines ELSI perspectives, novel molecular biology and cutting-edge methods to drive precision health research.

She has over a decade of experience in interdisciplinary projects, including lead roles in a longitudinal pediatric aging and intervention (GOALS) and the VAST (Viromes Across Space and Time) studies. She is also deeply committed to mentorship and co-learning, with a focus on Indigenous communities. She helped establish BRAICELET (Biorepository for American Indian Capacity, Education, Law, Economics, and Technology) as part of SPHERE, the Stanford Precision Health Engagement Initiative. She serves as an advocate for the Native BioData Consortium (nativebio.org) and as a lead scientist with Research to the People (researchtothepeople.org).

Lihua Jiang, PhD

Director of Mass Spectrometry Center for Advanced Research

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ph.D.

lihuaj@stanford.edu

Lihua Jiang directs the mass spectrometry center for the Integrated Personal Omics Profiling and the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) projects.  More She is trained in medicine and obtained her Ph.D in analytical chemistry. She has extensive experience in mass spectrometry based quantitative proteomics and metabolomics. Also, Lihua has developed and validated a variety of quantitative methods for the study of different cell lines, human organs and plasma/serum samples and constructed a quantitative proteome map of human body. She is an expert in mass spectrometry technologies and truly believes that the integration of modern technologies with omics profiling will revolutionize medicine.

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