Haojun received her B.S. in Biology from Nankai University in Tianjin, China. She then moved to the United States to pursue her Ph.D. advised by Dr. Svetlana Lutsenko at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she investigated the crosstalk between metal and lipid metabolism. Following her doctoral training, she joined the University of California, San Francisco as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Davide Ruggero, focusing on mRNA translational control in cancer and metabolic disorders. In Spring 2026, Haojun will launch her independent research program as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmacological Sciences at Stony Brook University.

Favorites: thinking about the mysteries of evolution/insulin resistance, cooking, traveling with family, and detective novels/movies.