Members’ Labs

Kunzhe Dong, PhD April 1, 2024 Assistant Professor Augusta University Immunology Center of Georgia   Primary Research: Our lab leverages omics data mining and mouse genetic models to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying vascular diseases such as atherosclerosis and aneurysm. Specifically, we are particularly interested in how naturally occurring mutations identified by GWAS are involved…

Richard Pierce, PhD February 23, 2024 Assistant Professor Department of Pediatrics Section of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine Yale School of Medicine   Primary Research: Our passion is to understand blood vessel dysfunction in the setting of critical illness. Blood vessels, and the endothelial cells that line them, extend to within micron of all the cells…

Jennifer S. Fang, PhD January 24, 2024 Assistant Professor Department of Cell and Molecular Biology Tulane University   Primary Research: Our group is interested in better understanding how blood vessels grow, remodel, and reorganize during healthy tissue development to form mature structures such as arteries, capillaries and veins, and how this process might go awry…

Xiaolei Liu, PhD November 28, 2023 Lemole Center for Integrated Lymphatics Research Department of Cardiovascular Sciences Lewis Katz School of Medicine Temple University   Primary Research: The Liu lab research studies lymphatic vessels during development and cardiovascular diseases. We study molecular mechanisms and signal cues that guides early lymphatic vessel formation and development. In parallel,…

Gediminas Cepinskas, DVM, PhD October 1, 2023 The Vascular Inflammation Laboratory Centre for Critical Illness Research Lawson Health Research Institute and Depts. Medical Biophysics/Anatomy & Cell Biology Western University   Primary Research: Research at the Vascular Inflammation laboratory (Centre for Critical Illness Research, Lawson Health Research Institute, London, ON, Canada) under supervision of Dr. Cepinskas,…

Cam McCarthy, PhD, FAHA September 1, 2023 Cardiovascular Translational Research Center Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy School of Medicine Columbia University of South Carolina   Primary Research: The Vascular and Integrative Physiology (VIP) Lab directed by Cam McCarthy at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Columbia studies novel mechanisms of vascular deterioration in…

Shulamit Levenberg, PhD August 1, 2023 Faculty of Biomedical Engineering Technion – Israel Institute of Technology   Primary Research: The Levenberg Lab specializes in the field of stem cell-based tissue engineering. Our focus is on recreating complex tissues in vitro for purposes such as regenerative medicine, disease modeling, and drug discovery. We have expertise in…

Zhiyu Dai, PhD July 1, 2023 Department of Internal Medicine University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix   Primary Research: Pulmonary vascular biology and lung vascular diseases Laboratory web site URL: https://www.zhiyudai-lab.com/   Lab Members Expand Bin Liu (postdoc) Dan Yi (postdoc) Karina Ramirez (graduate student) Xiaomei Xia (graduate student) Syed Hamid (graduate student) Recent…

Arndt F. Siekmann, PhD June 1, 2023 Department of Cell and Developmental Biology Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania   Primary Research: Understanding the mechanisms regulating the establishment of hierarchically patterned arterial and venous blood vessel trees Laboratory web site URL: https://www.med.upenn.edu/siekmannlab/   Lab Members Expand Christine Mau, Postdoc Jia Kang, Graduate…

Rio Sugimura, MD, PhD April 29, 2023 School of Biomedical Sciences University of Hong Kong   Primary Research: Cancer immunotherapy Laboratory web site URL: https://www.riosugimura.com/ Collaborative Relationships: University of Cambridge University of Pittsburgh University of Pavia Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Chinese University of Hong Kong Polytechnique University of Hong Kong Recent Presentations:…