Jiahe Li（李嘉禾）
Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering & Medical School
Faculty member in Cellular and Molecular Biology (CMB)
& Program in Chemical Biology (PCB)
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. I was a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Northeastern University from 2019 to 2023, and relocated my lab to the University of Michigan in the summer of 2023.
Education
Post-doc, David Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, MIT, 2015-2018
PhD, Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, 2009-2015
BS, Microbiology, China Agricultural University, 2005-2009
Honors & Awards
2025 CMBE Rising Stars Award, BMES
2024 Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering Young Innovator Award, BMES
2024 Swim Across America (SAA) Young Investigator Award
2023 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award
2023 NSF CAREER
2021 NIBIB Trailblazer Award
2021 Peer Reviewed Cancer Research Program, Idea Award, Department of Defense
2020 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program, Discovery Award, Department of Defense
2018 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program, Discovery Award, Department of Defense
2016 David Koch Institute Quinquennial Postdoctoral Fellowship
Research Staff
Amber Haley
Research technician
Amber obtained her BS in microbiology from Eastern Michigan University. Research interests: CRISPR, bacterial conjugation, and microbiome editing
Zhihong Dong
Industrial Coordinator
Dr. Dong obtained
his MD in Xi’an Jiaotong University. He is coordinating industry collaboration for next-generation sequencing.
Claire Law
Administrative Assistant
Postdoctoral Fellows
Noah Hutchinson
Postdoctoral Researcher
Noah obtained his PhD in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research interests:
Probiotics engineering to modulate lactate metabolism
Zeyang Pang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Zeyang obtained his PhD from a joint program of SUSTech (Shenzhen, China) and University of Leeds (UK).Research interests: Antibacteria, bioimaging, and drug delivery
We are hiring a postdoc
Graduate Students
Brian Hamp
2nd year PhD student in UM BME
Brian obtained his BS in Bioengineering from Northeastern University. He spent a few years in biotech industry before pursuing a PhD in BME. Research interests: CRISPR, bacterial conjugation, and microbiome editing
Zongqi Wang
2nd year PhD student in UM BME
Zongqi obtained a MS in Bioengineering from the Northeastern University. Research interests: Bacterial surface display for cancer immunotherapy
Maria Jennings
1st year PhD student in UM BME
Research interests: CRISPR, bacterial conjugation, and microbiome editing
Ningyuan Ye
2nd year MS student in BME
Research interests: Bacterial engineering for therapeutic development.
Chengyuan Fang
Visiting MD-PhD student
Chengyuan is a 1st year MD-PD program student from Harbin Medical University
Research interests: The roles of gut microbiota in cancer immunotherapy
We are recruiting PhD students
Undergraduate Students
Gabriel Lemos Oliveira
Sophomore in BME
Research interests: Bacterial engineering for therapeutic development.
Hania Timek
Sophomore in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Science Program in UM
Research interests:
Engineering B. subtilis spores to target Salmonella infectionAlumni
Xin Sun
PhD in Bioengineering, Northeastern University (graduated in 2021)
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at MD Anderson Center
Mengdi Yang
PhD in Bioengineering, Northeastern University (graduated in 2024)
PhD thesis: Innovative Bioengineering Approaches Development: from Host-Microbiome Crosstalk to Therapeutics Production
Current position: Scientist at Hoofprint Biome, North Carolina
Shaobo Yang
PhD in Bioengineering, Northeastern University (graduated in 2024)
PhD thesis: Engineering the Surface of Non-Pathogenic E. coli: A Novel and Efficient Platform for Cancer Prevention and Immunotherapy
Current position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute- Rui Zhang (lab manager)
- Hangu Nam (MS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Valeria Marquez (BS in BioE, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Peru)
- Ge Zhu (MS in Biotechnology, Northeastern University)
- Yun Ni (MS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Shana Broitman (BS in BioE and CS, Northeastern University)
- Ahmed Bekdash (BS in Biochemistry, Northeastern University)
- Thomas Conway (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Myer Hussain (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Yara AlOmair (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Myria Scott (BS ChemE, Northeastern University)
- Helena Jenkins (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Ian Hay (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Peter Doran (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Yuqianxun Wu (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)
- Shreya Basireddy (BS in BioE, Northeastern University)