Bezprozvanny Lab People

Members of the Lab

Ilya Bezprozvanny, Ph.D., D.Sci. Ilya.Bezprozvanny@UTSouthwestern.edu	Jun Wu, Ph.D. Jun.Wu@UTSouthwestern.edu	Suya Sun, Ph.D. Suya.Sun@UTSouthwestern.edu

Ilya is from St. Petersburg, Russia. Ilya is a Professor in the Department of Physiology and a member of the Neuroscience and Integrative Biology graduate programs. Since April 2011 he has held the Carl J. and Hortense M. Thomsen Chair in Alzheimer’s Disease Research.	Jun is from Wuhan, Hubei province, China. She received her Ph.D. (1999) in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Wuhan University, Wuhan (scientific advisor Prof. Hansheng Xu). She was trained as a postdoctoral research fellow at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany (2001) and at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico (2002-2004). Jun joined our lab in July 2005 and since September 2011 holds a Senior Research Scientist position.	Suya is from Zhengzhou, Henan province, China. Suya received her Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Analysis (2006) from the Shenyang Pharmaceutical University in Shenyang, China. She worked as a group leader in Shanghai Institute of Pharmaceutical Industry, Shanghai, China (1998 - 2006) and then contunued her training in Retina Foundation of the Southwest, Dallas, Texas (2007-2008). Suya joined our lab in April of 2008 as a postdoctoral research fellow.
Hua Zhang, Ph.D. Hua.Zhang@UTSouthwestern.edu	Xia ("Lisa") Liang, B.Sci. Xia.Liang@UTSouthwestern.edu

Hua Zhang is from Tajan, Shandong province, China. She received her Ph.D. (2002) in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (scientific advisor Prof. Cheng-Chao Shou) from Peking University Health Science Center in Beijing. Hua joined our lab in October 2002 and since July 2010 holds an Instructor position.	Lisa is from Jiangxi province, China. She received her B.Sci. in computer sciences (1996) from the Agricultural University of Jiangxi. Lisa joined our laboratory in March of 2009 and currently holds Research Technician II position.
Sheetal Vali, Ph.D. Sheetal.Vali@UTSouthwestern.edu	Jie Liu, Ph.D. Jie.Liu@UTSouthwestern.edu

Sheetal Vali (Dhar) is from Kashmir, India. She received her Ph.D. (2010) in Pharmaceutics from the Bharati Vidyapeeth University, India. She has worked as a Research Associate in Lupin Pharmaceuticals Inc, Pune, India (2003 - 2005). Sheetal joined our lab in September 2011 as a postdoctoral research fellow.	Jie is from Chengdu, Sichuan province, China. She received her Ph.D. (2008) in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Sichuan University, in Chengdu, Suchuan province, China. As a part of her training, Jie worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Dept of Cell Biology at UT Southwestern (March 2009 - October 2010, mentor: Dr Wen-hong Li). Jie joined our lab in November 2010 as a postdoctoral research fellow.