2025-present Assistant Investigator, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, CIBR, Beijing, China
2021 – 2025 Independent Research Fellow, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, CIBR, Beijing, China
2017 – 2020 Research Scholar, Immunology Program, Sloan Kettering Institute, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
2011 – 2017 Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Weill Cornell Medicine & Sloan Kettering Institute, New York, NY, USA
2007 – 2011 B.S. in Biology, Sichuan University, Sichuan, P. R. China
Lab Manager
M.S. in pomology, China Agricultural University.
Shanshan is in charge of lab management and accounting; she also assists PI with paperwork and organization.
Shanshan also manages and genotypes mice in the lab.
Assistant Researcher
Ph.D. in Department of Anesthesiology and Resuscitology, Shinshu University School of Medicine, Japan.
Hao previously worked in the Department of Anesthesiology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University
He explores the immune regulatory mechanisms in cancer using methods such as flow cytometry, single-cell sequencing, and chemical genetics.
Assistant Researcher
Dr. Zhenzhen Guo graduated from the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, majoring in neurobiology.
Dr. Guo focuses on the neurodevelopmental basis study of cell-type-specific oncogenic vulnerability.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Yuan Zhang received his Ph.D. from Capital Medical University and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Neurosurgery at Beijing Tiantan Hospital, affiliated with Capital Medical University.
Dr. Yuan Zhang is currently visiting Wei Shi's laboratory for study.His research focuses on the functional roles and regulatory mechanisms of meningeal lymphatic vessels in central nervous system (CNS) diseases, aiming to elucidate their involvement in neurological pathologies and explore potential therapeutic strategies.
Graduate Student
Yixing Shi is a doctoral candidate of Peking Union Medical College, Class of 2020. She graduated from Hebei Medical University in Clinical Medicine.
Yixing Shi focuses on the origin of tumor cells and the mechanism of tumorigenesis in astroblastoma, a rare tumor of the central nervous system.
Graduate Student
Jialin Yu received his bachelor’s degree in veterinary medicine from Jilin University in 2020. Now,he is a Ph.D. candidate of Capital medical university.
Jialin is interested in bidirectional interactions between the nervous and immune systems in tumor microenvironments.
Technician
Wenli Sun completed her master's degree at Shandong University in the field of biological medicine, and her research primarily focuses on the pathogenesis of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration.
Graduate Student
Zhuan Du is a master’s student (Class of 2023) at Soochow University, with a bachelor’s degree in Clinical Medicine from Henan University of Science and Technology.
She is currently visiting Wei Shi's laboratory for study and her current research focuses on the regulatory role of the peripheral nervous system in the development and progression of gastric cancer and its precancerous lesions.
Graduate Student
PhD candidate of Capital Medical University, Class of 2023. Bachelor of Clinical Medicine from Lanzhou University.
Jin Shucheng is currently visiting Wei Shi's laboratory for study and mainly explores the mechanism by which brain metastases interfere with meningeal lymphatic vessels.
Technician
Kaina Zhang graduated from the School of Sports Science of Beijing Sport University.
Zhang Kaina is mainly involved in the research on the pathogenesis of paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration.
Graduate Student
Guo Penghui is a Class of 2023 Master's student at Capital Medical University, having graduated with a Bachelor's degree from Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University.
Guo is currently visiting Wei Shi's laboratory for study and he focuses his research on the role of meningeal lymphatic vessels in the development of brain.
Intern
Yifang is majoring in Biotechnology - Biomedical Engineering, China Agricultural University.
Jia has primarily participated in research on the regulatory role of sympathetic nerve activity in tumors.