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Qianzi Li

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

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Developmental Biology· 2 Cancer Biology· 1

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Research Focus:differential expression· 3 Approach:experimental assay· 3 Organism:human· 3 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:cell-cell communication· 1 Assay:ChIP-seq· 1 Assay:CRISPR screen· 1

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Christina S. LeslieiD· 3 shared Danwei HuangfuiD· 2 shared Dylan MurphyiD· 2 shared Effie ApostolouiD· 2 shared Hyunwoo ChoiD· 2 shared Jielin YaniD· 2 shared Julián PulecioiD· 2 shared Renhe LuoiD· 2 shared

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Invasion status stratifies the composition of the human pancreatic cancer perineural niche

Zainab Hussain, Dig Vijay Kumar Yarlagadda, Qianzi Li, Nuray Tezcan, Pavel Stupakov, Golabahar Sadatrezaei, Richard J. Wong, Joan Massagué, Zeynep Cagla Tarcan, Olca Baştürk, Sylvie Deborde, Christina S. Leslie, Mara H. Sherman

Xenium and single-nucleus profiling of 14 human pancreatic tumors shows invaded nerve neighborhoods enriched for classical cancer cells, myCAFs and lipid-handling macrophages but depleted of lymphocytes.

bioRxiv · Aug 6, 2026 · PreprintCancer Biology✦ In-depth digest

Discovery of Competent Chromatin Regions in Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Julián Pulecio, Zakieh Tayyebi, Dingyu Liu, Wilfred Wong, Renhe Luo, Jeyaram Ravichandran Damodaran, Samuel J. Kaplan, Nan Hu, Hyunwoo Cho, Jielin Yan, Dylan Murphy, Robert W. Rickert, Abhijit Shukla, Aaron Zhong, Denis Torre, , Danwei Huangfu

The paper identifies pre-established chromatin regions in human ESCs that enable rapid activation of lineage-specific genes during differentiation.

Cell Genomics · Mar 18, 2026Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology

CRISPR Screening Uncovers a Long-Range Enhancer for ONECUT1 in Pancreatic Differentiation and Links a Diabetes Risk Variant

Samuel J. Kaplan, Wilfred Wong, Jielin Yan, Julián Pulecio, Hyunwoo Cho, Qianzi Li, Jiahui Zhao, Jayanti Leslie-Iyer, Jonathan Kazakov, Dylan Murphy, Renhe Luo, Kushal K. Dey, Effie Apostolou, Christina S. Leslie, Danwei Huangfu

The paper identifies a long-range enhancer for ONECUT1 involved in pancreatic differentiation and links a diabetes risk variant to disrupted transcription factor binding.

Cell Reports · Aug 1, 2024Peer-reviewedDevelopmental Biology