About the Staff

Arupa Ganguly, Ph.D. 

Laboratory Director – Professor of Genetics, CE

Dr. Ganguly is a Professor of Genetics and is a molecular biologist with particular expertise in mutation analysis and adaptation of novel assays for mutation scanning and direct mutation detection. She is Board Certified in Clinical Molecular Genetics by the American Board of Medical Genetics. Prior to her appointment at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Ganguly was on the faculty of the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine. Dr. Ganguly directs the laboratory which is a reference laboratory in the US for genetic testing of Hemophilia A, Retinoblastoma, Li Fraumeni disease, Herediatry Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT or Osler Weber Rendu Syndrome), Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, Russell Silver syndrome, and Uveal melanoma. She supervises all diagnostic testing for these disease-related genes.

Dong Li, Ph.D.

Laboratory Assistant Director – Assistant Professor of Genetics, CE

Dr. Li is an Assistant Professor of Genetics at the University of Pennsylvania and a faculty member in the Division of Genetic and Genomic Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He is board certified in Laboratory Genetics and Genomics and leads a translational research program focused on rare genetic disorders, with particular emphasis on vascular anomalies and neurodevelopmental conditions. Dr. Li’s work integrates clinical genomic testing, advanced sequencing technologies, and functional modeling to improve variant interpretation and molecular diagnosis.