Dr Tianyi Zhang obtained a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa, Canada. She moved to the UK to study for an MRes in Structural Molecular Biology with Xiaodong Zhang and Paul Freemont at Imperial College London.
Tianyi completed her DPhil with Neil Brockdorff at the University of Oxford, where she characterised chromatin readers associated with histone H3 Lysine 36 methylation.
In 2019 Tianyi was awarded a Wellcome Trust postdoctoral fellowship to study mechanisms of gene regulation by the hematopoietic transcription factor Ikaros in B cell differentiation, with Matthias Merkenschlager and David Rueda at the MRC Laboratory of Medical Sciences.
In 2025, Tianyi started as a Springboard Fellow in Cancer and Genomic Sciences, where her research will focus on epigenetic dysregulation in blood malignancies.