Guangan Hu PhD

Guangan Hu has been a postdoc and research scientist in the Chen lab at the Koch Institute MIT since 2009. Dr. Hu is an immunologist and computational biologist to apply systems biology approaches, disease models, and clinical data to understand the immune system and immune-associated diseases for translational medicine, including target identification and biology of cancer, autoimmune, tissue fibrosis, tissue injury, and repair as well as infectious diseases and vaccination. He obtained his Ph.D. at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore under the supervision of Dr. Zbynek Bozdech. His Ph.D. studies involved computational and functional genomics of human malaria. Prior to his Ph.D., Guangan was awarded his bachelor’s in bioengineering and master’s in molecular cell and biochemistry at Hubei University in 2003.