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Developmental Biology Program
The Danwei Huangfu Lab
Research
![Pictured: Danwei Huangfu](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5748/person/huangfu_181217_12_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Professor
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Featured News
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Publications Highlights
Glucose transporters are key components of the human glucostat. Caspi I, Tremmel DM, Pulecio J, Yang D, Liu D, Yan J, Odorico JS, Huangfu D. Diabetes. 2024 May 22:db230508. doi: 10.2337/db23-0508. Online ahead of print. [PMID: 38775784] (underlined are first author(s) from the Huangfu lab)
Dynamic network-guided CRISPRi screen identifies CTCF-loop-constrained nonlinear enhancer gene regulatory activity during cell state transitions. Luo R, Yan J, Oh JW, Xi W, Shigaki D, Wong W, Cho HS, Murphy D, Cutler R, Rosen BP, Pulecio J, Yang D, Glenn RA, Chen T, Li QV, Vierbuchen T, Sidoli S, Apostolou E, Huangfu D#, Beer MA#. Nat Genet. 2023 Aug;55(8):1336-1346. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01450-7. Epub 2023 Jul 24. [PMID: 37488417] (#co-corresponding author)
CRISPR screening uncovers a central requirement for HHEX in pancreatic lineage commitment and plasticity restriction. Yang D, Cho H, Tayyebi Z, Shukla A, Luo R, Dixon G, Ursu V, Stransky S, Tremmel DM, Sackett SD, Koche R, Kaplan SJ, Li QV, Park J, Zhu Z, Rosen BP, Pulecio J, Shi ZD, Bram Y, Schwartz RE, Odorico JS, Sidoli S, Wright CV, Leslie CS#, Huangfu D#. Nat Cell Biol. 2022 Jul;24(7):1064-1076. doi: 10.1038/s41556-022-00946-4. Epub 2022 Jul 4. [PMID: 35787684]
QSER1 protects DNA methylation valleys from de novo methylation. Dixon G, Pan H, Yang D, Rosen BP, Jashari T, Verma N, Pulecio J, Caspi I, Lee K, Stransky S, Glezer A, Liu C, Rivas M, Kumar R, Lan Y, Torregroza I, He C, Sidoli S, Evans T, Elemento O#, Huangfu D#. Science. 2021 Apr 9;372(6538):eabd0875. doi: 10.1126/science.abd0875. [PMID: 33833093]
Genome-scale screens identify JNK-JUN signaling as a barrier for pluripotency exit and endoderm differentiation. Li QV, Dixon G, Verma N, Rosen BP, Gordillo M, Luo R, Xu C, Wang Q, Soh CL, Yang D, Crespo M, Shukla A, Xiang Q, Dündar F, Zumbo P, Witkin M, Koche R, Betel D, Chen S, Massagué J, Garippa R, Evans T, Beer MA#, Huangfu D#. Nat Genet. 2019 Jun;51(6):999-1010. doi: 10.1038/s41588-019-0408-9. Epub 2019 May 20. [PMID: 31110351]
People
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Danwei Huangfu, PhD
Professor
- The Huangfu laboratory uses human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) as a powerful genetic model to interrogate the transcriptional and epigenetic mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions in development and disease.
- PhD, Cornell University, Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences
- BS, Fudan University
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Members
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- PhD, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology [ICGEB]
![Xian Zhang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/136033/3x2/zhang_170809_12_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
- PhD, Columbia University
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- BS, CUNY Hunter College
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- PhD, CeMM Research Centre for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
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- PhD, Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences
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- PhD, Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB), Hyderabad, India
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- BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University
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- PhD, Institute of Life Sciences, Odisha (India)
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- PhD, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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- PhD, Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health
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- BS, University of Chicago
![Nan Zhang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/221593/main_image/zhang-nan-230801-011_rt_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
- PhD, New York University School of Medicine
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Sr. Research Scientist
![Dapeng Yang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/120148/3x2/yang_170809_04_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Sr. Research Scientist
![Xian Zhang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/136033/3x2/zhang_170809_12_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Sr. Research Scientist
![Adonis C. John](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/106336/main_image/aj-headshot_2023_torso.jpg)
Lead, Research Administrative Assistant
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Research Technician
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Research Fellow - NYSTEM Training Award at the CSCB
![Chia Chan](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/301346/main_image/chia1.jpg)
Lab Manager
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Sr. Computational Biologist
![Tingfeng Guo](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/275841/main_image/guo-tingfeng-230801-014_rt_1200x1200.jpg)
Research Fellow
![Nan Hu](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/275846/main_image/hu-nan-230801-002_rt_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Computational Biologist
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Research Scholar
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Research Technician
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Graduate Research Assistant
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Research Fellow
![Arushi Rana](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/261436/main_image/arushi.png?h=bf336fe8)
Research Technician
![Denis Torre. PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/301351/main_image/denis.png?h=ee190e62)
Research Scholar
![Xianming Wang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/266506/main_image/wang-xianming-230413-10_rt_1200x1200.jpg?h=cd2a7045)
Research Fellow
![Breanna Williams](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/266511/main_image/williams-breanna-230413-05_rt_1200x1200.jpg)
Research Technician
![Jielin Yan](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/179695/main_image/yan-jielin_190806_04-1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Graduate Research Assistant
![Nan Zhang](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/221593/main_image/zhang-nan-230801-011_rt_1200x800.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Research Associate
![Gary Dixon](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/106320/3x2/dixon_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
- BA, University of California, Berkeley
- MS, Imperial College London
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- University of Arizona
![Renhe Luo](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/125500/3x2/luo_170809_04_3x2_0.jpg?h=10d202d3)
- BS, Shanghai Jiaotong University
![Robert Rickert](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/145789/3x2/rickert_170809_25_3x2.jpg)
![Jeyaram (Jey) Ravichandran Damodaran](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/221596/main_image/jey-damodaran_pic-2022.pdf.jpg?h=10d202d3)
- Bachelor of Technology, National Institute of Technology Calicut
- MS, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Lab Alumni
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Graduate Research Assistant
![Gary Dixon](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/106320/3x2/dixon_3x2.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Graduate Research Assistant
![Kihyun Lee](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/25808/3x2/lee_170809_12_3x2.jpg)
Graduate Research Assistant
Research Technician
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Graduate Research Assistant
![Renhe Luo](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/125500/3x2/luo_170809_04_3x2_0.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Lead Scientist, Spark, New York, NY
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Research Technician
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Graduate Research Assistant
Research Fellow
![Chew-Li Soh, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/25735/3x2/soh_170809_11_3x2.jpg)
Research Fellow
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Graduate Research Assistant
![Nipun Verma](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5906/3x2/verma_3x2.jpg)
Graduate Research Assistant
![Daniela C. Georgieva](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/5905/image/mg-6683.jpg)
Research Technician
![Federico Gonzalez-Grassi](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/6366/image/mg-6697.jpg)
Research Fellow
![Katherine Lelli, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/17647/image/lelli-katherine.jpg)
Research Fellow
![Zhong-Dong Shi](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/6045/3x2/shi_3x2.jpg)
Research Fellow
![Zengrong Zhu, PhD](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/6165/3x2/zhu_3x2.jpg)
Research Associate
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Senior Research Scientist
![Jeyaram (Jey) Ravichandran Damodaran](https://www.sloankettering.edu/sites/default/files/styles/width_200_1x1/public/node/221596/main_image/jey-damodaran_pic-2022.pdf.jpg?h=10d202d3)
Sr. Research Technician
Scientific Research Lead
Lab Affiliations
Achievements
- Basil O’Connor Scholar, March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation (2012-2014)
- Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Young Investigators Award, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2011-2014)
- Award from Harvard Catalyst & InnoCentive for the Ideation Challenge on “What Do We Not Know to Cure Type 1 Diabetes” (2010)
- Helen Hay Whitney Postdoctoral Fellowship (2006-2009)
Lab News & Events
Accolades
Team Recognitions
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Renhe Luo's paper on endoderm enhancer discovery is out in Nature Genetics (2023)
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Jeyaram (Jey) Ravichandran Damodaran is joining the Weill Cornell BCMB program (2023)
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Julian Pulecio is selected as a member of the 2023 cohort of MERIT Emerging Leaders
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Dingyu Liu receives the Bruce Charles Forbes Fellowship (2023)
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Tamara Casteels receives the NYSTEM Training Award at the CSCB (2022)
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Tamara Casteels receives the Award of Excellence for her PhD thesis with Stefan Kubicek in CeMM (2022)
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Nan Zhang receives CDMRP PRMRP Discovery Award (2022)
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Dapeng Yang's paper on HHEX and pancreas specification is out in Nature Cell Biology (2022)
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
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Danwei Huangfu discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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Gene and Genome Editing
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Stem Cell Reports
Professional Services and Activities (Uncompensated)
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The Jackson Laboratory
Professional Services and Activities
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