Principal Investigator
Ching Zhu, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Dr. Zhu is a physician-scientist focused on advancing therapy for heart rhythm disorders. Growing up in Charleston, SC, she started doing bench research in arrhythmia biology at the Medical University of South Carolina as a high school student. She completed her undergraduate studies at Harvard University, her MD degree at Stanford University, and her PhD at UCLA. She completed her postgraduate medical training at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School and UCLA. Her laboratory studies neuronal control of cardiac arrhythmia susceptibility, and she is also a practicing clinical electrophysiologist specializing in cardiac device implantation and catheter ablation of arrhythmias.
Lab Members
Yuanyuan Wu, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Wu is a molecular and cellular biologist who obtained her PhD from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, China. She received postdoctoral training in cardiac immunology and gene-editing techniques from the University of Connecticut and University of California, San Francisco. She is passionate about translating her work at the bench to creating new medical therapies. In her spare time, she enjoys R&B and exploring the hiking trails of the Research Triangle.
Arun Jyothidasan, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Dr. Jyothidasan has multidisciplinary training in biomedical engineering and cardiac physiology. He received his PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. His expertise is in vivo mouse experimentation, including surgeries and tissue isolation. In his spare time, he enjoys traveling and electronic music.
