THE SUN LAB
Meet the Team

Assistant Member, St Jude Faculty
Ji Sun, Ph.D.
Email: ji.sun@stjude.org
BS - University of Science and Technology of China
PhD - University of Washington, Seattle
Postdoc - The Rockefeller University

Lab Manager
Patricia Hixson, Ph.D.
Email: patricia.hixson@stjude.org
BS - National University of Singapore
MS & PhD - University of Glasgow
Postdoc - McGill University and Baylor College of Medicine

Staff Scientist
Ali Kermani, Ph.D.
Email: ali.kermani@stjude.org
BS - University of Zanjan
MS - Newcastle University
PhD - University of Birmingham
Postdoc - University of Michigan

Postdoc Fellow
Hanwen Zhu, Ph.D.
Email: hanwen.zhu@stjude.org
BS - Chongqing University
PhD - Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, CAS

Postdoc Fellow
Meiqin Jiang, Ph.D.
Email: meiqin.jiang@stjude.org
BS, MS - Fujian Normal University
PhD - Fujian Institute of Research on the Structure of Matter, CAS

Postdoc Fellow
Chenxi Cui, Ph.D.

Postdoc Fellow
Mansoore Esmaili, Ph.D.
Alumni

Nikhil Jain, Ph.D.
Staff Scientist: 2020-2021
Current position: Sr Scientist at insitro