Chun Han

Chun Han is a Nancy M. and Samuel C. Fleming Professor in the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics and the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology. He is a member of the Graduate Fields of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cell Biology (BMCB), Genetics, Genomics and Development (GG&D), and Neurobiology and Behavior (NB&B). After obtaining a B.S. degree in Cell Biology and Genetics in Peking University, China, he went to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital for his Ph.D, where he worked with Xinhua Lin to study morphogen gradient formation in Drosophila. He then joined the lab of Yuh Nung Jan at the University of California, San Francisco, as a Jane Coffin Childs postdoctoral fellow. He started his faculty position at Cornell in November, 2013.