Current Lab Members
Zheng (Jenny) Zhang, MD, MSc
Director of Microsurgery Core
Jiao-Jing Wang
Senior Research Associate and Core Manager
Jiao-Jing has been a Microsurgeon since 1995. She is skillful in rat and mouse organ transplantation including skin, heart, kidney, small bowel, spleen and aorta as well as islet transplantation.
Shuling Han, MD, PhD
Research Associate and Microsurgeon
Shuling is very skilled with microsurgery procedures such as lung, heart, and limb transplantation, acute kidney injury (AKI), carotid injury, ischemic reperfusion injury (IRI), and more. Additionally, Shuling is familiar with laboratory techniques such as RT-PCR, Western blot, co-immunoprecipitation, cell culture, and many others.
Luke VanOsdol
Research Associate
Luke has been a research associate with the Comprehensive Transplant Center since 2018. Previously, he obtained his Master of Science from Northern Michigan University. Luke has extensive experience with a broad range of scientific techniques, data analysis, and animal surgeries.
Chunlei Chen
Research Associate
Chunlei has five years of veterinary training background. Her research skills span across biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology and animal models.
Xin Zheng
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Zheng, a transplant surgeon, is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Comprehensive Transplant Center’s Microsurgery Core. He has a strong background in clinical kidney transplant experience and excellent expertise in molecular biology and cell biology. He is also skilled at minor animal surgeries, including mouse or rat skin, heart, and kidney transplantation.
Previous Lab Members
Wanqing Xie, MD, PhD
Research Associate
Xingqiang Lai, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. Lai, a transplant surgeon, is currently a postdoctoral fellow in the Comprehensive Transplant Center’s Microsurgery Core. He has a strong background in clinical kidney transplant experience, together with excellent expertise in molecular biology and cell biology. He is also skilled at small animal surgeries including mouse skin, heart, and kidney transplantation.
Kui Shen, PhD
Assistant Core Scientist
Dr. Shen has over 20 years of research experience in molecular biology and biochemistry. His research skills span across biochemistry, molecular biology, cell biology and animal models.
Longhui Qiu, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Longhui Qiu received his medical degree from China and worked in our laboratory as a postdoctoral fellow between 2016 and 2019. He is now working at University of California, San Francisco as a research specialist.
Xin Yi Yeap, MS
Feibo Zheng, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Feibo Zheng, M.D, was a postdoctoral fellow from September,2017 to August,2019 in Microsurgery Core. During postdoctoral period, he assumed two projects, and was committed to investigating the immune tolerance of limb transplant in rats and skin transplant in mice. He was specialized in developing rodent animal model of limb transplantation and skin transplantation.
Presently He works as a attending physician in surgery department, East District of Tianjin First Central Hospital, China. He majors in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, especially in the clinical and basic research on pancreatitis.
Kang Xin, MD
Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow
Xin Kang
M.D., chief physician, professor, graduate study supervisor.
Executive Director of Animal Injury Treatment Branch of China Association for Disaster & Emergency Rescue Medicine (CADERM) and chairman of Marine Animal Injury Committee ; Member of International Society for Experimental Microsurgery (ISEM).
At present, He is working in the department of wound repair and emergency department of Zhongshan Hospital of Dalian University in China, specializes in the surgical treatment of traumatic and acute abdominal injuries and the treatment of refractory wounds. He, as a visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow, trained for liver and heart transplants of animals at the Microsurgery Core at Northwestern University from January 2015 to April 2016. He has authored over 20 peer-reviewed articles and 10 monographs. He has been granted 3 Chinese utility patents.