Lab Members
Mark Nicolls, MD
Position: Chief, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine
Education: M.D., Stanford University
Residency: Stanford University Hospital
Fellowship: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
email » [mnicolls]
Fellows and Research Associates
Joe Hsu, MD, MPH
Position: Instructor of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Education: M.D., Tufts University School of Medicine; M.P.H., Boston University School of Public Health Residency: Stanford University Internal Medicine Residency and Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship
Research Interest: Risk factors for Aspergillus fumigatus infection in lung transplant recipients
Specialties: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
email » [joehsu]
Xinguo Jiang, MD, PhD
Position: Research Associate II
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; M.D., Zhejiang University, China
Research Interest: Microvasculature in airway fibrosis
email » [xinguoj]
Mohammad Afzal Khan, PhD
Position: Research Associate
Education: Ph.D., Aligarh Muslim University, India
Postdoctoral Scholar: McMaster University, Canada
Research Interest: Role of microvasculature in airway transplantation
email » [afzal]
Hai Li, PhD
Position: Research Scientist
Education: Ph.D., Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France
Postdoctoral Scholar: Stanford University
Research Interest: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
email » [haili]
Yu-chun Lin, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor ; B.S., Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University
Research Interest: Extracellular matrix effects on cellular behavior, Orthotopic tracheal transplantation, and Biofluid mechanics
email » [ylinz]
Tom Nguyen, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Ph.D., Molecular and Cellular Pharmacology, SUNY, Stony Brook University; B.S., Animal Physiology, San Francisco State University
Research Interest: Neutrophil elastases in lung transplantation
email » [ngu2tom5]
Jin Qian, MD, Ph.D.
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Ph.D., Vascular Biology Center, Georgia Health Sciences University; M.D., Nanjing Medical University
email » [jinq]
Joshua Santé, PhD
Lab Manager
Position: Lab Manager and Research Associate
Education: Ph.D., Stanford University; B.A., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, UC Berkeley
Research Interest: Immune cell dynamics and lineage
email » [jsante]
Yon Sung, MD
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow and Clinical Instructor in Medicine
Education: M.D., University of Pittsburgh; B.S., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University
Residency: Brown Medical School / Rhode Island Hospital
Fellowship: Pulmonary and Critical Care, Stanford University
Research Interests and Specialties: The role of the immune system in pulmonary arterial hypertension
email » [yonsung]
Rasa Tamosiuniene, MD, PhD
Position: Research Associate
Education: M.D., Ph.D., Kaunas University of Medicine
Research Interests and Specialties: Immunoinflammatory and coagulation responses in pulmonary arterial hypertension
email » [Rasa.Tamosiuniene]
Amy Tian, PhD
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
Education: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago; Fudan University, Shanghai, Economics and Chemistry
Research Interest: The role of eicosanoid signaling in the development of inflammatory pulmonary hypertension
email » [amytian]
Undergraduates and High School Students
Mohammed Omer
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Education: B.S. (Biomechanical Engineering) Stanford University 2012
Research Interest: Vascular repair following rejection, HIF-1α, airway remodeling
email » [momer]
Mithya Jayakumar
Position: High School Student Assistant
Education: Cupertino High School 2013
Research Interest: The role of the immune system in pulmonary arterial hypertension
Shirley Jiang
Position: Undergraduate Research Assistant
Education: B.S. (Biology) Stanford University 2015
Research Interest: Vascular repair following rejection and airway remodeling
email » [yunqij]
Alumni
Ashok Babu, MD
Current: Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Colorado
Danielle Sandhu
Current: Boston University Undergraduate / Medical School Program
Tomohiro Murakawa, MD
Current: Assistant Professor of Thoracic Surgery, University of Tokyo
Carol Tran
Current: Harvard University Undergraduate
Jing Xu
Current: California Institute of Technology Undergraduate
