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Lab Members

Principal Investigator

  • Mark Nicolls, MD.

    Mark Nicolls, MD.


    Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

    Endowed Chair, The Stanford Professor of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

    Stanford University School of Medicine

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Faculty

  • Peter Kao, MD., PhD.

    Peter Kao, MD., PhD.


    Associate Professor, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy & Critical Care Medicine

    Dr. Kao, received his MD and PhD degrees from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.  He established rodent models of inflammatory pulmonary hypertension and demonstrated that the endothelial lineage contributes to the neointimal vascular occlusion. Additionally, Dr. Kao discovered and cloned novel gene regulators NF45/ILF2 and NF90/ILF3 that modulate chromatin conformation, RNA transcription, RNA splicing and translation. These host cell factors are hijacked during viral infections to support viral replication and gene expression. Dr. Kao is exploring novel antiviral strategies based on his unique insights into the biology of ILF2 and ILF3.

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    Email: peterkao@stanford.edu

Project Leaders

  • Xinguo Jiang, MD., PhD.

    Xinguo Jiang, MD., PhD.


    Principal Investigator at VA Palo Alto
     

    Dr. Jiang received PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on elucidating the roles of hypoxia-inducible factors in vascular physiology and pathophysiology.

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    Email: xinguoj@stanford.edu

  • Amy Tian, PhD.

    Amy Tian, PhD.


    Project Leader
     

    Dr. Tian received her PhD degree in biochemistry from University of Illinois at Chicago and was trained in the world-renowned eicosanoid signaling and lipid signaling lab with Dr. Wonhwa Cho. She has extensive experience in cell signaling, vascular biology and inflammation. She designs and administers studies in the area of pulmonary hypertension, lymphedema and lung transplantation activities in the Nicolls group.

    Email: amytian@stanford.edu

Research Assistants

  • Dongeon Kim, PhD

    Dongeon Kim, PhD


    Postdoctoral Researcher
     

    Dr. Kim received his B.S. from Ulsan University in 2013 and he received his MS-PhD in Biomedical Science & Engineering Interdisciplinary Program from Korea Advance Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) in 2018. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Convergent Research of Emerging Virus Infection (CEVI) from Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology (KRICT) in 2019. Currently, he is studying how lymph node and vascular lymphatic endothelial cell regulate immune cell

    Email: harrykim@stanford.edu

  • Tim Wu, M.S.

    Tim Wu, M.S.


    Research Assistant
     

    Timothy graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Biology with Honors and M.S. in Biomedical Informatics in 2018. He is currently a medical student at the Stanford School of Medicine. As an undergraduate, he began research in the division of pulmonary medicine under Dr. Peter Kao studying immediate early gene regulation by DNA- and RNA-binding proteins NF45 and NF90. He is now mentored by both Dr. Kao and Dr. Nicolls to study vascular inflammation and immune dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension.

    Email: thsuanwu@stanford.edu

Alumni

Gongyong Peng, PhD & MD

Current: Clinical Professor in Guangzhou Medical University, China

Shravani Pasupneti, MD

Current: Instructor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Joe Hsu, MD

Current: Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Petra Dahms, B.S.

Current: PhD in Biomedical Sciences Program, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

Allen Tu, B.S.

Current: UC Davis

Rasa Tamosiuniene, MD, PhD.

Olga Manouvakhova, BA

Current: UAB School of Medicine

Yon Sung, MD

Current: Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University School of Medicine

Yu-chun Lin, PhD

Current: Assistant Professor, Taiwan University

Paul Mesange, PhD

Current: Scientist, Charles River Laboratories

Eric Shuffle, MS

Current: UQ-Ochsner Medical School

Ashok Babu, MD

Current: Cardiothoracic Sugeon, St. Thomas Heart Institute, Nashville, TN

Torrey Guan, BS

Current: Saint Louis University, School of Medicine

Shirley Jiang, MD

Current: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center (Internal Medicine)

Mohammad Afzal Khan, PhD

Current: Senior Scientist, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Hai Li, PhD

Current: Scientist, Bolt Biotherapeutics

Tomohiro Murakawa, MD

Current: Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo