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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
UIC PhLAMES, Faculty of the Year, 2021
UIC Researcher of the year, Rising Star award 2022 – 2023

Complete CV: Click here
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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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 -
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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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Sandeep Reddy

vdwara3@uic.edu
B.S. Manipal Institute of Technology
M.S. UIC 2022 -
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Dương Trịnh Ngọc

duongtr@uic.edu
PhD, RCSI, University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Post-doc Associate at Gao lab since 2023.5 -
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GAO LAB ALUMNI

Rahul Narayanan, PhD

Ph.D. from IIT

Post-doc Associate at Gao lab from 2021.10 – 2023.2

Current position: Faculty member at SRM Institute of Science and Technology, India

Liang Chen, PhD

Ph.D. from University of Tasmania

Post-doc Associate at Gao lab from 2021.6 – 2022.8

Current position: Post-doc Associate at PNNL

Xiuyuan Ma, PhD

Ph.D. from Rutgers University

Post-doc Associate at Gao lab from 2019.6 – 2021.5

Current position: Research Scientist at Abbvie

Michael Hollas, PhD

Ph.D. from University of Manchester

Post-doc Associate at Gao lab from 2018.10 – 2019.6

Current position: Staff Scientist at Northwestern University

Join The LAB

Gao lab is constantly looking for talented students and research associates, if interested, please send an email with the subject “Application” to yugao@uic.edu with your CV attached.