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. 

Post Doctoral Fellow

Wenduo Guo MD PhD

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

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. 

 

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.

Cardiology Fellow / Post Doctoral Fellow

Andrew Nguyen

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. 

Undergraduate Researcher

Om Patel

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

Post Doctoral Fellow

Shreya Gupta

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

Staff Researcher

Kevin Li

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

Research Fellow

Ashley Zhu, BSc (MD)

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

LSRP

William Jackson, Bsc

MSTP (MD/PhD) Student at University of Pennsylvania 

Sarnoff Fellow

Meghana Iyer, BSc

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