Principal Investigator
Xin Zhou, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Started2025.04
Intelligent Medicine Institute, Fudan University
Professor
Hong Kong PolyU–Stanford Joint Research Center
Xin Zhou leads an interdisciplinary research program integrating microbiome science, multi-omics, artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, organoid systems, and disease biology to advance precision medicine.
Current Team
Meet the current members of the Xin Zhou Lab and its affiliated research programs.
Wenhui Ding
Lab Manager
Started2025.10
Previously at: Huawei
Biography coming soon.
Qianyi Zhou, M.Med.
Research Assistant
Started2025.06
Previously at: Tianjin Medical College
Biography coming soon.
Haotian Meng, M.Med.
Research Assistant
Started2026.03
Previously at: Nankai University
Biography coming soon.
Daiyuan Liu
Research Assistant
Started2026.03
Previously at: Huazhong Agricultural University
Biography coming soon.
Yue Wu
Ph.D. Student
Started2023.08
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Previously at: Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Biography coming soon.
Jing Zhang
Assistant Professor
Started2025.01
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Visiting Scholar
Fudan University
Previously at: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Biography coming soon.
Former Trainees and Alumni
Former researchers and students who trained with Xin Zhou through Stanford and affiliated research programs.
Zheng Wei
Research Assistant
Period2025.06–2026.06
Biography coming soon.
Kate Hsia
Former Intern
PeriodSummer 2024
Kate was a 2024 summer student in the Department of Genetics at Stanford University. Her research focused on regulatory T-cell abnormalities in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), including single-cell data analysis. She is currently an undergraduate student at Harvard University.
Xiaopan Ma
Former Lab Manager
Period2025.04–2025.11
Xiaopan graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Her expertise is in microbiology, with experience in microbial culture and culturomics.
Michelle Wang
Former Summer Intern
Period2026.06–2026.07
Kansas Academy of Mathematics and Science, Fort Hays State University
Michelle is interested in how artificial intelligence can advance our understanding of lung disease. Her broader interests include Traditional Chinese Medicine and multi-omics.
Amber Huynh
Former GRIPS Fellow
Amber is a 2024 Genomics Research Internship Program (GRIPS) fellow at Stanford University. Her research interests lie in understanding how the microbiome changes with age.
Karla Araracap
Former GRIPS Fellow
Karla is a 2024 Genomics Research Internship Program at Stanford (GRIPS) fellow. Her research focuses on exploring differences in the microbiome between males and females.
Tess Yan Cheng
Former Intern
Tess is a 2023 summer student from the Stanford University Department of Genetics. Her research focuses on the skin microbiome and its relationship to skin diseases. Tess is developing methods to match donors and recipients for skin microbiome transplantation.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at University of Washington.
Haley Oba
Former GRIPS Fellow
Haley is a 2023 GRIPS Fellow from Stanford University School of Medicine. She is focused on the statistical analysis of the microbiome, with her current project centered on power and sample size calculation for microbiome studies.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at Columbia University.
Dorothy Zhang
Former Intern
Dorothy is a 2024 intern at Stanford University School of Medicine, hailing from Menlo School. Her current focus is on culturomics, where she is dedicated to isolating and studying unique bacterial strains from the human microbiome.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at Northwestern University
Andre Rayner
Former GRIPS Fellow
Andre is a 2023 GRIPS fellow at the Stanford University Department of Genetics. He is interested in the gut-brain axis. Andre is developing causal inference models to understand the role of the microbiome in human depression.
Current Position: Undergraduate Student at University of California, Berkeley
Patrick Demkowicz
Former JAX Summer Fellow
Patrick participated in the 2016 Summer Student Program at The Jackson Laboratory. His research focuses on the animal microbiome, comparing microbiomes in the context of aging and caloric restriction.
Current Position: MD student at Yale University.