Li Lab

The Team

People

Principal Investigator

Chenhao Li, PhD

Chenhao Li, PhD

Principal Investigator

  • Investigator, Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Associated Scientist, Broad Institute

Chenhao is a computational biologist working at the interface of microbial genomics, metabolism, and host physiology. He studied computational biology and computer science at the National University of Singapore, where his PhD with Niranjan Nagarajan focused on statistical methods for microbial community data, and was a postdoctoral fellow with Ramnik Xavier at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. He works on method development in close collaboration with experimentalists.

Mentorship

Trainees currently co-mentored in the Xavier lab.

RF

Rui Fan, PhD

2025–present

Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital

Gut microbiome characterization in patients with colorectal adenoma.

AP

Aidan Pavao

2026–present

MD/PhD student, Harvard

Bioinformatic workflows for mycobiome data analysis.

The lab is recruiting — postdocs and rotation students welcome.

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