Stanford
Cheng lab

People

PI: Paul Cheng MD/PhD

Paul is a cardiologist/physician scientist at Stanford University, and also the co-director of the Stanford Translational Investigator Program (TIP/PSTP) 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 three boys, and enjoys fishing, golf, and all the other amazing outdoor activities available in the Bay Area. 

Wenduo Guo MD PhD

Post Doctoral Fellow

Wenduo joins us from King's college, London. Master of adventitia and fibrous cap!  Rising superstar in vascular biology!

Sugandha Basu MS

Lab Manager

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. 

 

Alexa Berezowitz BSc

LSRP

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.

Andrew Nguyen

Cardiology Fellow / Post Doctoral Fellow

Andrew join us from Harvard Medical School, where he studied HSCs and Clonal Hematopoiesis. Andrew is currently studying the role of different vascular mural cells and their contributions to atherosclerosis and neovascularization. 

Om Patel

Undergraduate Researcher

Om is a Stanford student who is spearheading our projects understanding how tobacco alters the biology at the vessel wall! 

Shreya Gupta

Post Doctoral Fellow

Shreya joins us from NEOMED/Kent State where she completed her PhD. She spearheads the hunt for regulators of VSMC that forms plaque cells.

Kevin Li

Staff Researcher

Avid baseball fan, Kevin joins us from UCSD, and is the master of understanding RNA splicing and degradation using scRNA data!

Alumni of the Cheng Lab

Ashley Zhu, BSc (MD)

Research Fellow

Ashley joins us from Mt.Sinai, where she is finishing her medical school on her path to be a Cardiologist. 

William Jackson, Bsc

LSRP

MSTP (MD/PhD) Student at University of Pennsylvania 

Meghana Iyer, BSc

Sarnoff Fellow

Meghana joins us from Cleveland Clinic as a Sarnoff Fellow, she is currently finishing her training to become a cardiologist/physician scientist