Mentor: Dr. Rajat Gupta
Shi Fang received her Bachelor of Science in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Sun Yat-sen University before joining the PhD program in Pharmacology at the University of Iowa in 2016. In Dr. Curt Sigmund’s lab, Shi completed her thesis that focused on understanding the molecular and physiological function of an atypical Rho GTPase in hypertension and arterial stiffness. Shi is currently a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Rajat Gupta’s lab at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and Genetics in Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where she studies genetic variants in cardiovascular diseases.
Keywords
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Vascular Biology
- Genetic Variants
- Genomic Editing