Principle Investigator
Prof. Ling Hao
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Maryland, College Park
Postdoctoral Fellow:
Dr. Gwang Bin Lee
(Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yonsei University, Korea)
My research: MS-based multi-omics method development and application to brain diseases.
Graduate Students:
Naomi Ni
(B.S., UCSD. M.S., Tufts U)
My research: characterizing the dynamics of subcellular organelles in human iPSCs and iPSC-derived neuron culture.
Noah Smeriglio
(B.S., Widener University)
My research: developing automated sample preparation strategies for MS-proteomics.
Wan Nur Atiqah binti Mazli
(B.S., University of Minnesota)
My research: MS-proteomics in human neurons to study molecular mechanisms of Frontotemporal Dementia.
Hope Tracey
(B.S., Lafayette College)
My research: developing MS-proteomics methods to study mitochondrial dynamics in human neurons.
Undergraduate Students
Jamison Shih
My research: MS-proteomics to measure protein turnover.
Alumni
(Ph.D.) Current: AstraZeneca.
(B.S.) Current: Medical School.
NSF REU summer
undergrad student.
(Ph.D.) Current: Biogen.
(B.S.) Current: Genesys, Inc.
High school summer student from TJHSST.
(B.S.) Current: Medical School.
(B.S.) Current:
Research Assistant.
NSF REU summer undergrad student.
(B.S.) Current: Medical School.
(B.S.) Current: Generation Bio.
Awards & Fellowships from Hao Lab members:
- Jamison Shih, ASMS Undergraduate Student Travel Award; Best Undergrad Poster Award, 2025
- Haorong Li, Rising Stars in Proteomics Award, Canadian National Proteomics Network, 2024
- Ashley Frankenfield, US-HUPO Graduate Student Travel Award, 2024
- Haorong Li, Mary Hopkins Shepard Doctoral Fellowship, 2024-2025
- Jamison Shih, American Chemical Society Analytical Chemistry Undergraduate Award, 2024
- Haorong Li, US-HUPO Best Poster Award, 2024
- Noah Smeriglio, Dean’s Fellowship, University of Maryland, 2024
- Haorong Li, Mary Hopkins Shepard Doctoral Fellowship, 2024-2025
- Jamison Shih, The Luther Rice Undergraduate Research Fellowship, 2023-2025
- Noah Smeriglio: Bourdon F. Scribner Summer Fellowship, 2023
- Ashley Frankenfield, ASMS Graduate Student Travel Award, 2023
- Mustafa Ahmed: ASMS Undergraduate Travel Award, 2022
- Haorong Li: 1st place, Washington-Baltimore Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group (WBMSDG) Young Investigator Travel Award, 2022
- Ashley Frankenfield, Bill & Marilynn Sweetser Named Scholar of the ARCS Foundation, 2022
- Ashley Frankenfield: ARCS Foundation Scholarship, 2021
- Haorong Li: SCBA Scientific Symposium Best Poster Award, 2021
- Haorong Li: Bourdon F. Scribner Summer Fellowship, 2021
- Ashley Frankenfield: Bourdon F. Scribner Summer Fellowship, 2020
- Ashley Frankenfield: Keystone Symposia Student Scholarship, 2020
- Nicholas Randolph: NIH Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award, 2020