SUN LABORATORY
HIPPOCAMPUS / MEMORY / NEURAL CIRCUITS
People
Principal Investigator
Qian Sun, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Neurosciences
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Email: qxs111@case.edu
Postdoc. Columbia University | HHMI
Ph.D. Brandeis University
M.S. Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing)
B.Med. Capital Medical University (Beijing)
Lab Members
Wanpeng Cui, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Email: wxc364@case.edu
Ph.D. Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan
M.S. China Medical University, China
B.S. Shandong University, China
Wanyi Guo, B.S./M.A.
Graduate Student
Email: wxg109@case.edu
M.A. Johns Hopkins University
B.S. University of California, Los Angeles
Ethan Daley
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email: esd52@case.edu
Class of 2026, Case Western Reserve University
Ritwika Ghosh
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Email: rxg748@case.edu
Class of 2028, Case Western Reserve University
Past Lab Members
Graduate Students:​
Minghua Li (PhD student, 2019-2025): Postdoctoral fellow in Yang Dan’s lab at the Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation.
Jessica Kinney (PhD student, 2019-2025): Imaging project coordinator at MedPace.
Research Assistants:
Daniel Lee (research assistant, 2023-2025): Medical student at Ohio State University College of Medicine.
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Undergrads and High School Students:
Zitai Luo (undergrad, 2023 – 2024): Currently dental student at CWRU.
Millennia Zhou (undergrad, 2019 – 2024): Medical student at Ohio State University College of Medicine.
Serin Arikan (high school student, 2023):
Qiwen Wu (high school student, 2022 – 2023): Currently undergrad at Duke.
Kevin Liu (undergrad, 2019 – 2023): Medical student at Hofstra/Northwell.
Melissa Lu (undergrad, 2019 – 2023): Law student at USC.
Laila Ramadan (undergrad, 2022 – 2023): Back to undergraduate studies at CWRU.
Maria Habean (undergrad, 2020 – 2022): Currently a graduate student in the CWRU BSTP program.