People
A Collaborative & Diverse Group
Zhiyu Dai, Ph.D., FAHA, ATSF
Principle Investigator
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care Medicine
Department of Medicine
Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis
Dr. Dai received his B.S. from Shandong University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Dr. Dai completed his postdoctoral training in lung vascular biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago. Dr. Dai started as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix on 2019, and was promoted as Tenured Associate Professor on July 2024. Dr. Dai was recruited to Washington University in St Louis on July 2024.
Current lab members
Current lab members
Bin Liu, PhD
Senior Scientist
Dr. Liu has been trained in Cancer Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Hanqiu Zhao, MS
PhD student
Hanqiu is a PhD student in the DBBS program
Ankit Tripathi, PhD
Postdoc Researcher
Xiaomei Xia
Research Specialist
Alumni
Anton Gao
Volunteer Student
Arizona State University
Undergraduate student
Ryan Dong
Arizona State University undergraduate student
Yanhong Cao
Visiting student
Syed Hamid
Master Student
Syed is a CTS Clinical Research master student at UA Phoenix
Karina Ramirez
Research Specialist
Dr. Ramirez graduated her B.S. from Arizona State University and Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.
Dan Yi
Postdoc
Dr. Yi received her Ph.D. from the University of Lyon, France.
David Guo
high school student
David is a high school student at Scottsdale
Ebani Acedo
Volunteer Student
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We are recruiting Postdoc, Ph.D./MS students, and volunteers now.
Past lab members
Shuai Li, PhD
Dr. Li is an associate professor at Guangzhou Medical University, China.
Rebecca Li
UCLA undergraduate
Mengyao Zhao
ASU graduate
Ethan Ngo
ASU undergraduate
Jiakai Pan, BSc
Jiakai was a UC Berkeley graduate and is a Medical School student at Midwestern University at Glendale
Rogelio Miranda Mora, Flinn Intern
Rogelio is a undergraduate student at Duke University
