Our team

Shang is from Jilin Province, China. He got both his PhD and BS degrees from School of Life Sciences in Tsinghua University, China. After a short dip into biotech industry, he realized he is more enthusiastic in basic scientific research. Shang came to US and joined Dr. Xiaohong Li’s group as a post-doc in May 2019. He was promoted to Research Assistant Professor at U Toledo in July 2023. In August 2024, Shang starts his lab at LSU, Baton Rouge. In his spare time, Shang enjoys visiting botanical gardens, hiking on nature trails, playing ukelele, and playing with his orange cat "Guantou" (meaning canned foods in Chinese).

Guantou is a cute domestic shorthair orange cat. He was born in Apr 2020 and "adopted" Shang in Nov 2020. He is handsome, gentle, active, and playful. He is currently leading the project on investigating why the majority of adult orange cats get fat but he can proudly stay fit. While Shang sometimes handles experimental mice, Guatou is obsessed with a fake mice. So the PI and CEO of Su lab both take mice seriously! As the CEO and No.2 member of Su Lab, Guantou joined LSU together with Shang, to become a tiny LSU tiger.

Lin is from China. She joined Su lab as the Research Associate in Nov 2024. Before joining LSU, she works as a physician scientist in eye tumors. She is now interested in exploration of the shared targetable mechanisms across various types of cancers and development of gene therapies against these mechanisms.

Our next Tiger in the lab! We are looking forward to your amazing show!!! Geaux Tigers!!!