Principal Investigator
Hanrui Zhang, MB PhD
Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences
Email: hz2418@cumc.columbia.edu
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8655-938X
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Dr. Hanrui Zhang is a macrophage biologist. She completed her PhD training in 2011 at the University of Missouri. Her graduate work centered on the crosstalk between immune cells and blood vessels in diabetes-associated vascular diseases. Her postdoctoral research at the University of Pennsylvania continued to address the mechanisms of cardiometabolic diseases focusing on macrophage lipid metabolism and inflammation using gene targeting in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) with differentiation to macrophages. Her laboratory at Columbia University Irving Medical Center seeks to understand the dynamic role of macrophages in cardiometabolic diseases with the aim of finding novel mechanisms and new treatments.
Hanrui is the Immediate Past Chair of the Women’s Leadership Committee, the Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (ATVB) council of the American Heart Association (AHA), and the Chair-Elect of the ATVB & PVD Shobha Ghosh Investigator in Training Award Selection Committee. She is serving as the Technical Review Editor for the ATVB Journal.
Read the ATVB_net interviews to learn more about Hanrui’s role as the ATVB Technical Editor and the ATVB Digital Strategies Team member.
Education & Training
- MB, 2003, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
- MS, 2006, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China
- PhD, 2011, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO (AHA Predoctoral Fellow, NIH R90 Trainee)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (AHA Postdoctoral Fellow)
- Associate Research Scientist, 2018, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY (NHLBI K99/R00)
Lab Members
Fang Li, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, AHA Postdoctoral Fellow, AHA CDA Awardee
I am interested in the functional interrogation of coronary artery disease-associated loci identified by human genome-wide association studies. My current work focuses on the role of lysosomal acid lipase in atherosclerosis.
Education & Training
- BS, 2012, Northwest A&F University, China
- PhD, 2018, Univerity of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Xun Wu, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, AHA Postdoctoral Fellow, AHA CDA Awardee
Education & Training
- BS, 2011, Anhui Science and Technology University, China
- MS, 2014, Anhui University, China
- PhD, 2019, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Mazal Zebak, BA
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Research Specialist
Education & Training
- BA in Chemistry, 2023, Harvard University
Philip Ha
Undergraduate Research Assistant, Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College 2026
Lab Alumni
Research Specialist
Jianting Shi, MS, Research Specialist (07/2018-08/2023) –> Data analyst
MS Students
Ziyi Wang, MS in Human Nutrition (with Thesis Honors), Columbia University (09/2019-02/2021), Research Specialist (PT, 03/2021-07/2022) –> PharmD program
Shamma Ali, MS in Human Nutrition, Columbia University (09/2020-09/2021)
Rebecca Moore, MS in Human Nutrition, Columbia University (09/2020-09/2022), Research Specialist (Casual, 09/2022-12/2022)
Rehet Chugh, MS in Human Nutrition (09/2022-05/2024) –> MD program
Undergraduate Researchers
Eden Tilahun Teferi, Columbia University 2021 (09/2018-01/2019)
Raneem Hamad, Columbia University 2021 (09/2018-03/2020)
Eileen Moudou, Columbia University 2021 (01/2019-05/2019)
Yolanda Jean-Baptiste, BS, Fellow of the NERA Program, Howard University 2019 (06/2019-07/2019)
Jeana Chun, BS, SURF Scholar, Columbia College 2022 (01/2019-05/2022) -> MD program
Annie Rozenblyum, BS, Barnard College 2022 (01/2019-05/2022) –> MD program
Tyler Shern, BA, SRF (Science Research Fellow) and SURF Scholar, Columbia University 2024 (02/2022-12/2024)
Columbia Data Science Institute (DSI) Scholars
Joey Zihui Gu, MS in Data Science, Columbia University (09/2018-12/2018) –> Data scientist
Jiayi Shen, MS in Biostatistics, Columbia Univ. Mailman School of Public Health (03/2019-07/2019) –> PhD program
Jianyou Liu, MS in Biostatistics, Columbia Univ. Mailman School of Public Health (03/2019-07/2019) –> Biostatistician –> PhD program
Joy Hsu, MS in Biostatistics, Columbia Univ. Mailman School of Public Health (11/2019-05/2020) –> Biostatistician
Neha Pusarla, MS in Data Science, Columbia Univ. (03/2021-06/2021) –> Software engineer
Sophie Shan, BS in Statistics, CUSP Scholar, Columbia College 2022 (11/2019-09/2021) –> PhD program
Visting Scientists
Yujiao Meng, Visiting PhD Student, Beijing Univ. of Chinese Medicine (12/2019-03/2021) –> Instructor
High School Students
Philip Ha, Townsend Harris 2022 (03/2020-08/2022) –> Undergraduate Research Assistant in the lab