Principal Investigator
Dave Langenau (PI)
David received his B.S. and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and his Ph.D. in Biology and Biomedical Sciences from Harvard Medical School in 2004. He next completed his fellowship training at Children’s Hospital Boston in 2008. Along with Dr. A. Thomas Look, he is credited with developing the first transgenic zebrafish model of cancer. In his own group, he has made seminal discoveries underlying the pathogenesis of pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia and rhabdomyosarcoma. He enjoys swimming, fishing, golfing, and bicycling with his two boys and wife.
Post-Doctoral Fellows
Yun (Claudia) Wei
Claudia is a research fellow especially interested in rhabdomyosarcoma, utilizing the patient-derived xenograft mouse model along with the developmental STAR zebrafish. She got her Bachelor's degree in Wuhan University back in China, and then moved to another warm city, Atlanta, to pursue a PhD in Cancer Biology at Emory University. For her dissertation, she worked with her mentor Anna Marie Kenney to investigate the aberrant cell signaling in pediatric brain tumors medulloblastoma. She likes to play badminton, bike, or jog during her free time. She is also a big fan of board games; no gambling though!
Tiffany Eng
Tiffany hails from the faraway lands of Middle Earth (a.k.a. New Zealand). In 2018, she graduated with a PhD from the University of Auckland, where she spent most of her time in a dark room imaging zebrafish embryos to elucidate the molecular mechanisms guiding lymphatic development. Now as a postdoc in the Langenau lab, she also spends hours in a dark room imaging zebrafish, but this time to uncover pathways that drive rhabdomyosarcoma progression and relapse. When she’s not holed up in the dark, Tiffany likes to occasionally spend her free time hiking up mountains or playing board games with friends, but more likely than not you’ll find her wrapped up in blankets at home watching TV, reading books or playing video games.
James Allen
Yueyang Wang
Jihee Lee
Mohamed Bakr
Priyanshu Sharma
Saby Mathavarajah
Research Technicians
Diego Antelo
Alex Weissman
Stephanie Strom
Lab Manager
Mike Marconi