Lab members
Principal Investigator
Ying Zheng, PhD
Associate Professor - Department of Bioengineering
Center of Cardiovascular Biology
Institute of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
University of Washington
yingzy at uw.edu
Research Scientists
Ping Luo
B.S. East China Normal University
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
pingluo at uw.edu
Jun Xue
B.S. East China University of Science and Technology
M.S. University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth
Department of Bioengineering
University of Washington
jxue at uw.edu
Mentored Fellows/Assistant Professor
Sam Rayner, MD
Assistant Professor: UW Medicine Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
MD, University of Minnesota
srayner at uw.edu
Graduate Students
Yu Jung Shin
PhD student, Bioengineering
Joined September 2019
B.S. Johns Hopkins University
yshin20 at uw.edu
Kira Evitts
PhD student, Bioengineering
Joined March 2020
Co-advised with Jessica Young
B.S. University of Washington
kevitts at uw.edu
Ariana Frey
PhD student, Bioengineering
Joined October 2020
B.S. North Carolina State University
afrey3 at uw.edu
Rachel Hu
PhD student, Bioengineering
Joined September 2022
B.S. University of Washington
ruoqih at uw.edu
Andres Armenta
PhD student, Bioengineering
Joined September 2022
B.S. University of Washington
ara5cf at uw.edu
Undergraduate Students
Sahana Subramanian
Joined June 2022
Isabella Kwan
Joined June 2022
Alumni:
Former Post-doctoral Fellows:
Dongjune Kim, Ph.D. 2022-2023
Russel Whelan, M.D. 2018-2022
Ryan Nagao, PhD., 2014 - 2019
Brian Hayes, Ph.D., 2014-2018
Raluca Mauca, Ph.D., 2014-2016
Giovanni Ligresti, Ph.D. 2012-2014
Former Graduate Students:
Caitlan Howard, Ph.D., 2017-2022
Nicole Zeinstra, Ph.D., 2016-2022
Christian Mandrycky, Ph.D. 2015-2020
YoonJung Choi, Ph.D. 2014-2018
Surya Kotha, Ph.D. 2013-2018
Meredith Roberts, Ph.D. 2012-2017
Sijie Sun, Ph.D. 2012-2015
Nam Phuong Nguyen, M.S. 2017-2019
Eric Juang, BS/MS, 2016-2017
Jin Xu, BS/MS, 2014-2015
Xiaoling Zhang, BS/MS, 2013-2014
Former Undergraduate Students:
Karina Lavalley, Jason Fox, Mohammed Mushtak, Rachel Straughn, Harrison Hiraki, Celina Gunnarsson, Sarah K. Albrecht, Connor Tsuchida, Alexander Novokhodko, Eric Jung, Kiet Phong, Dominic Tran, Joy Xu, Sowa Imoisili, Katie Truong, David Feldman, Sam Totorica, Lin Qi, Qi Wu.