We are thrilled to welcome Dr. Qianni Peng to the Zheng Lab! Qianni joins us from Boston College, where she completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry under the mentorship of Dr. Eranthie Weerapana. Her doctoral work focused on profiling the ligandability of nuclear cysteine residues and uncovering how these covalent interactions influence nuclear protein function. Before…
We are excited to have our first postdoc fellow, Dr Jiyun Zhu, to join us from Stanford. Welcome, Jiyun! Jiyun received her B.Sc. in Chemical Biology from Sun Yat-sen University in 2019 and completed her Ph.D. in Biochemistry in 2023 under Prof. Thomas Meek at Texas A&M University, where she elucidated the catalytic mechanism of SARS-CoV-2 main…
We welcome our first rotation student, Tianfang Shen, from the Harvard Chemical Biology Graduate Program to join us. Tianfang graduated from Peking University with a BS in chemical biology. He joined the Harvard chemical biology PhD program in 2024. He is excited to explore the potential of covalent rescue in the Zheng Lab. Outside the…
Our Lab officially opened its door on June 2nd, 2025 in the Seeley G. Mudd Building. We are excited to launch our research program in the Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School (HMS). We are looking for graduate students, undergraduate students, postdocs and visiting scholars to join us to work…
Qinheng was named a recipient of the 2025 Damon Runyon-Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists. The award supports paradigm-shifting research that will transform the way we prevent, diagnose and treat cancer. We thank the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation for their continueous support….
