People

Paul is a cardiologist/physician scientist at Stanford University, and also the co-director of the Stanford Translational Investigator Program (TIP) for the Stanford Internal Medicine . An engineer trained in developmental biology, Paul loves to apply developmental biology concepts and tools to understand human cardiovascular diseases. He is obsessed with leveraging single cell technologies to redefine our biological understanding of many vascular diseases. In his spare time, Paul spend time with his two boys, and enjoys fishing, golf, and all the other amazing outdoor activities available in the Bay Area.

Lab Manager

Sugandha Basu MS

Joining us from UCSF, Sugandha is the back bone of the lab, in charge of all the fun activities and day to day functioning of the lab.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Meghana Iyer, BSc

Meghana joins us from Cleveland Clinic as a Sarnoff Fellow. Meghana is the master of bioinformatics and strives to leverage multi-omic data to understand the biological underpinning of sex differences in vascular diseases.

LSRP

Alexa Berezowitz BSc

Alexa joins us from Yale. Alexa is the master of our in vivo atherosclerosis model, and leverages CRISPRi and epigenetic to hunt for new GWAS genes.

Post Doctoral Fellow

Ashley Zhu, BSc

Ashley joins us from Mt.Sinai, where she is finishing her medical school on her path to be a Cardiologist. In her spare time, Ashley designed and started the in vitro CRISPRi screening program in the Cheng lab!