GEELEHERLAB - Key Persons


Dr. Asif Zubair

Job Titles:
  • Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Dr. Zubair joined us from his Ph.D. University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He worked on methods development for spatial transcriptomics data before being offered a prestigious position in industry. Asif has filed a patent (pending) from his time with us and has had work accepted at the AACR annual meeting. His first author paper from the lab has been published at Nucleic Acids Research: https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkac320/6583238

Dr. Charlie Wright

Job Titles:
  • Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Dr. Wright has a Ph.D. in Cancer and Developmental Biology from University of Tennessee. He performed most of his graduate work here at St. Jude in the lab of Dr. Taosheng Chen in the Department of Chemical Biology.

Dr. HM Lee

Job Titles:
  • Staff Scientist ( Wet Lab )
Dr. Lee spent 8 years at UNC Chapel Hill (as a postdoc then Research Associate) before moving to St. Jude. He has published first author papers in PNAS and Nature Medicine.

Dr. Min Pan

Job Titles:
  • Staff Scientist ( Wet - Lab )
Dr. Min Pan has a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Zhejiang University. She subsequently spent 5 years as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope Cancer Center in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Richard Chapple

Job Titles:
  • Bioinformatics Research Scientist
Dr. Chapple has a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He also attained a Master's degree in the University of Missouri and has his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois.

Dr. Yinwen Zhang

Job Titles:
  • Bioinformatics Analyst
Dr. Zhang joins us from her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia, where she worked on computational epigenetics and plant science, publishing first author papers in PNAS and Nature Communications.