Yu (Tom) Gao, phd

B.S. Peking University HSC, Pharmaceutical Sciences (2004 – 2008)
Ph.D. Scripps Research – Florida (Mentor: Thomas J. Kodadek, 2008 – 2014)
Post-doc Scripps Research – La Jolla (Mentor: John R. Yates III, 2014 – 2018)

Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2018 – present
Associate Member, University of Illinois Cancer Center, 2019 – present
Adjunct appointment, Richard and Loan Hill Department of Biomedical Engineering Colleges of Engineering and Medicine, 2022 – present

NIH MIRA Award, 2019

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Email: yugao@uic.edu
Office phone: 312-996-8087

CURRENT TEAM

Xinhao Shao

xshao8@uic.edu
B.S. Heilongjiang University
M.S. Illinois Institute of Technology
Graduate Student 2019.1 -
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Ziwei Zhang

zzhan60@uic.edu
B.S. Peking University HSC
Graduate Student 2019.9 -
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Cory Matsumoto

cmatsu5@uic.edu
B.S. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Student 2020.5 -
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Julia Ekiert

jekiert2@uic.edu
B.S. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Graduate Student 2021.5 -
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Rahul Narayanan

rahul@uic.edu
B.Sc. & M.Sc. Mahatma Gandhi University
Ph.D. IIT, Madras
Post-doc fellow Fudan University
Post-doc associate 2021 -
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Chris Grams

cgrams2@uic.edu
B.S. University of Illinois at Chicago, Computer Science
Student researcher 2020.5 -
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Jose A Hernandez

jhern53@uic.edu
B.S. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lab Manager 2022.8 -

Angela Mahaffey

amahaf1@luc.edu
Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago
Clinical Assistant Professor, Loyola University
Visiting Scholar in Gao lab 2022 -
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