Phone: 86-10-62782882
Email: pengmin@tsinghua.edu.cn
Min Peng, Ph.D.
Education:
2000-2005 B.M., Clinical Medicine
West China Medical Center, Sichuan University, Sichuan
2005-2010 Ph.D., Immunology
Peking Union Medical College, Beijing
Employment:
2010-2014 Research Fellow
Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, United States
2014-2017 Research Associate
Immunology Program, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, United States
2017-present Assistant Professor
School of Medicine, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017-present Principal Investigator
Institute for Immunology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2017-present, Principal Investigator
Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China
Honors & awards:
2019 Outstanding Young Scholar Award, Qiu-Shi Science & Technologies Foundation
2018 Bayer Scholar
2018 Awardee of National 1000 Talent Program
2015 Postdoctoral Researcher Award, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Post-Docs
Lixia Wang, Ph.D.
Lixia Wang received her Ph.D. degree from University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2018, then joined Min Peng’s laboratory for post-doctoral research. Her research focuses on the genetic modification of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell for adoptive cancer immunotherapy.
Xiaocui Zhao, Ph.D.
Xiaocui Zhao obtained her Ph.D. degree in cell biology from Zhejiang University and joined in Peng lab in 2018. Her research mainly focuses on CAR-T therapy.
Qiuping Zhou, Ph.D.
Qiuping Zhou is from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and joined in Peng's lab as a postdoc in May 2021, got her Doctor of Immunology at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in January 2021. Her research focuses on CAR-T therapy.
Students
Ying Liu
Ying Liu joined Peng's laboratory as a Ph.D student in 2017，with a bachelor's degree from Sichuan University. She worked on projects about mTOR, T cell proliferation and Calcium signal successively during doctoral training.
Hanfei Zhao
PhD student, his research focuses on Immunotherapeutic target discovery by genome-wide in vivo CRISPR screens in primary mouse T cells.
Guangyue Zhang
After graduated from School of Pharmaceutical Science, he joined the Lab of Dr. Min Peng at Institute of Immunology, Tsinghua University. During the Ph.D. training, Guangyue’s major research interest is the function, differentiation and fine-tuning co-receptor signaling in T cells. He is good at setting up and carrying out CRISPR based screening assays in both cell lines and primary T cells. Besides daily training, he is often playing tennis with friends as an amateur.
Gang Jin
Ph.D student (From2017) in PTN. Research focuses: Adoptive T cell therapy against cancer and autoimmune disease; Nutrient sensing pathway regulation of HSC function.
Yuying Ma
Yuying Ma, PhD student (since 2018) in School of Medicine, Bachelor’s degree from Wuhan University. Research focus: immune metabolism.
Jing Xu
Jing Xu, PhD student (from 2018). Get his bachelor's degree from Soochow University. Currently, he mainly focuses on the research of calcium signaling in T cell biology and deciphers the role of calcium in T cell homeostasis.
Zihao He
He Zihao joined Peng's laboratory in 2019 as a PhD student. He has been dedicated to the research on genetic modification in Treg cells for adoptive cell transfer.
Qing Shang
Qing Shang joined Peng lab in September, 2020, for research training as part of her MD program. With an interest in immunometabolism and metabolism in general, she is now focusing on the role of short chain fatty acids in physiological and pathological settings.
Xiaonan Ma
Xiaonan Ma, a PhD student (from 2020) in PTN. She obtained the bachelor degree in animal medicine from Jilin University. And her research interest is the mechanism of T cell memory formation.
Yun Yu
PhD student (since 2020) in Institute for Immunology of Tsinghua University. Received Bachlor's Degree (majored in Chemical Biology) from Xi'an Jiaotong University. Her research focuses on the interaction between CAR-T and the endogenous immune system. Likes photography.
Yanyan Liu
Yanyan Liu, a PhD student of class 2020, joined Peng Lab. after got his bachelor's degree from Sichuan University. Currently, he mainly focuses on the research of CAR-T targeted therapy. He is trying to change from a “naive” student to a “functional” and “productive” “effector” student.
Yibo Zheng
As a student of Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) major in Clinical Medicine, I joined the lab for the two-year scientific research training during my eight-year curriculum. My current research focuses on the functional genomics in primary T cells.
Research Interests:
My laboratory is committed to advancing T cell research, with a dual focus on elucidating the foundational biology of T cells and exploring their therapeutic potential in combating diseases. Our primary objective is to unravel the intricate mechanisms governing T cell expansion, contraction, persistence, and memory formation. Leveraging state-of-the-art technologies, we have recently achieved a groundbreaking milestone by inducing a novel state in T cells, termed Immortal-like and Functional (TIF). These reprogrammed TIF cells exhibit remarkable attributes, combining the near-limitless stemness reminiscent of iPSCs with the functional capabilities of mature T cells. This unique phenotype empowers them with unparalleled efficacy against various ailments, including tumors, viral infections, and numerous chronic diseases.
Presently, we are deeply engaged in investigating the underlying mechanisms and exploring the clinical applications of TIF. We are actively seeking postdoctoral fellows with a keen interest in T cell biology and immunotherapy, please reach out to us at pengmin@tsinghua.edu.cn.
ORCID: 0000-0002-5885-0660
ResearcherID: O-3770-2017
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