Principal Investigator
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Clement T. Y. Chan
Ph.D. in Biological Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Clement Chan participated in academic research since he was an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After accomplished his B.S. degree in Chemistry and Biochemistry, he joined a Ph.D. program in Biological Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and conducted his thesis research in the laboratory of Peter C. Dedon, M.D., Ph.D. at the Department of Biological Engineering. As a graduate student, Dr. Chan used a quantitative systems approach to study biological roles of tRNA modifications in cellular response to different types of stress. With Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism, he developed a mass spectrometric platform to quantify tRNA modifications, which led to the discovery of specific changes in the quantitative pattern of tRNA modification spectrum in response to different types of stress.
   During his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of James J. Collins, Ph.D. at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. Chan continued to conduct systems biology research while using transcriptomics and proteomics analyses to understand the bacterial response to antibiotics. Additionally, he also developed his research in synthetic biology, including using protein engineering methods to construct a series of biosensors for the detection of different small molecules and harnessing these biosensors to build a programmable “Passcode” genetic circuit to control cellular behaviors in response to multiple environmental signals.
  In 2017, Dr. Chan was selected for a Rising STARs award by the University of Texas System, which supports him to establish his research program at the University of Texas at Tyler. In 2020, Dr. Chan started his current position at University of North Texas, Department of Biomedical Engineering. So far, the Chan lab has received federal grants from National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health, such as a MIRA R35 award and an AREA R15 award.



Postdoctoral Researcher 

 










Rahul Kumar
Ph.D. in Botany, Aligarh Muslim University



Graduate Researcher

 










Vincenzo Kennedy
B.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas














Jasmine Nguyen
B.S. in Biochemistry, California State University, Long Beach














Sahaj Kinshuk
B.S. in Biological Sciences, University of North Texas



Mary Carolin Lethe
B.S. in Biological Sciences, Texas A&M University



Lab Technician 












Nhu Nguyen
M.S. in Biomedical Engineering, University of North Texas














Vincent Paris
B.S. in Biological Sciences, University of North Texas



Undergraduate Researcher












Anjita Budhathoki
Major: Biomedical Engineering











 
 
 

Anika Chebrolu
Texas Academy of Mathematics & Sciences Program



Alumni

Ben Jordan (2017-2018)
Next Position: Lab technician at Dr. Joseph Glavy's lab at UT Tyler College of Pharmacy

Bianca Chu (2017-2018)
Next Position: Transfer to UT Austin to attend an undergraduate program in Mechanical Engineering

Rey Dimas (2017-2020)
Next Position: Medical trainee at UT Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine

Derrick Wong (2019-2020)
Next Position: Join a D.D.S. program at UT Health San Antonio, School of Dentistry

Catherine Martini (2018-2020)
Next Position: Adjunct Professor at University of Texas at Tyler, Department of Biology

Prabhat Kattel (2018-2020)
Next Position: Continue his undergraduate program at UT Tyler after we moved to UNT

Connor Crowe (2019-2020)
Next Position: Continue his undergraduate program at UT Tyler after we moved to UNT

Kyren Miller (2019-2020)
Next Position: Continue his undergraduate program at UT Tyler after we moved to UNT

Adam Davis (2019-2021)
Next Position: Graduate student at UT Dallas

Sunny Jung Yeon Lee (2020-2021)
Next Position: Research associate at a biotech company, Singular Genomics

Alison Draeger (2021-2022)
Next Position: Research associate at Flagship Pioneering

Adam Chiragh Lakhani (2021-2022)
Next Position: Testing Manager at MedSure Systems