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.