Principal Investigator

Lei Stanley Qi, Ph.D.

Dr. Stanley Qi is Assistant Professor in Department of Bioengineering, Department of Chemical & Systems Biology, and a core faculty member in the Stanford ChEM-H Institute. He obtained B.S. in Physics and Math from Tsinghua University, Beijing China, M.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley, and Ph.D. in Bioengineering from UC Berkeley/UCSF. He worked as a Faculty Fellow at UCSF 2012-2014, and was a faculty memebr in Stanford University since 2014. His team developed the first use of dCas9 technology for genetic engineering and gene regulation, including CRISPRi/a for transcription activation or repression and dCas9 for genome imaging in living cells. Read more about Stanley Qi's profile here.


Contact Dr. Qi

443 Via Ortega MC 4245

Bioengineering and Chemical Engineering Building

Shriram Center Room 329

Stanford, CA 94305-4125, United States

Please flip to see Dr. Qi's email and phone.

stanley.qi AT stanford DOT edu

(650) 498-9986

Administration Assistant:

Virginia Diaz

vdiaz1 AT stanford DOT edu

(650) 724-9615

Postdoc Fellows

Albert Lo, Ph.D.

Albert is a postdoctoral fellow. He obtained Ph.D. in Cell and Molecular Biology from University of Pennsylvania. 


Antonia Dominguez, Ph.D.

Antonia is a ALS Milton Safenowitz Postdoctoral Fellow. She obtained Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University. 


Yanxia Liu, Ph.D.

Yanxia is a postdoc researcher. She graduated from Peking University with a Ph.D. in Cell Biology. 


Haifeng Wang, Ph.D.

Haifeng is a postdoc researcher. She obtained Ph.D. in Biochemistry, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology from University of California, Davis. 


Xueqiu Lin, Ph.D.

Xueqiu is a postdoctoral researcher. She works on computational biology. 


Muneaki Nakamura, Ph.D.

Muni is a postdoctoral researcher. He graduated from Stanford University with a Ph.D. in Chemistry. 


Timothy Daley, Ph.D.

Timothy is a postdoctoral researcher. He graduated from University of South California with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. He works jointly with Dr. Qi and Dr. Wing Wong. 


Marie La Russa, Ph.D.

Marie is a postdoc researcher. She obtained Ph.D. in Biomedical Sciences from UCSF. 


Ingrid Vogelaar, Ph.D.

Ingrid is a postdoctoral researcher. 

Xiaoshu Xu, Ph.D.

Xiaoshu is a postdoctoral researcher. She obtained Ph.D. from Chinese Academy of Science.

Graduate Students

Tony Gao

Tony is a graduate student in the Cancer Biology Graduate Program.


Nathan Kipniss

Nathan is a graduate student in the Bioengineering program.


Salil Bhate

Salil is a graduate student in the Bioengineering program.  He is jointly mentored by Garry Nolan and Stanley Qi.


Christopher Still

Chris is a graduate student in the Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine Graduate Program. 


Hannah Kempton

Hannah is a graduate student in the Bioengineering Graduate Program. 


Timothy Abbott

Tim is a graduate student in the Bioengineering program. 


Staff Scientist and Admin Assistant

Dehua Zhao, Ph.D.

Dehua is senior scientist and lab manager. 


Virginia Diaz

Virgina provides administrative support to Dr. Qi and the lab. 


Undergraduate Students

Aris Kare

Aris is a Bioengineering undergraduate student at Stanford.

Amanda Urke

Amanda is a Bioengineering undergraduate student at Stanford.

Visiting Researchers

Click to see the alumni from the Qi lab.