2024
January 3, 2024
Justin Bridges (BME) joined us as a rotating graduate student. Welcome!
January 1, 2024
We are excited to announce that Dr. Anteneh Getachew has received the prestigious AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations to Anteneh on this significant achievement!
2023
August, 2023
Meimei and Yu-An presented their projects at the BCVS meeting in Boston. Congratulations!
July, 2023
Welcome high school student William Peng and undergraduate researcher Rachana Kuthuru for joining our lab!
March 23, 2023
Meimei and Yu-An showcased their research excellently in poster presentations at the NHLBI Celebration of Progenitor Cell Research and Translation Meeting. Fantastic job!
March 1, 2023
Anna is honored 20 years of service to UAB. Congratulations, Anna! We deeply appreciate your invaluable contributions to our lab.
2022
December 22, 2022
Dr. Zhou’s study, “TBX20 Improves Contractility and Mitochondrial Function During Direct Human Cardiac Reprogramming,” published in Circulation, has been selected as the winner of the Heersink School of Medicine’s Featured Discovery. Please read her interview here.
December 19, 2022
Our lab is officially relocated to Shelby Building Rm 831.
December 6, 2022
Big congratulations to Meimei Wang for receiving an American Heart Association Predoctoral Fellowship! Good job and so proud of you, Meimei! Read more here.
December 1, 2022
Dr. Anteneh Getachew joined the lab as a postdoctoral scholar. Welcome Anteneh!
November 5, 2022
Yu-An nicely presented her poster “Stage-Specific Roles of ELMSAN1 in the Control of Cardiac Cell Fate Differentiation of Human-Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells“ in 2022 American Heart Association Scientific Session in Chicago. Congratulations!
August 5, 2022
Grace’s research paper “TBX20 Improves Contractility and Mitochondrial Function during Direct Human Cardiac Reprogramming” has been accepted for publication in Circulation. Congratulations!
July 2022
Dr. Zhou received the Transformational Project Award from American Heart Association. Congratulations! This award supports the new study in the lab to decipher regulatory elements driving direct cardiac reprogramming. Read more here.
March 2022
Dr. Yu-An Lu joined the lab as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome Yu-An!
2021
November 2021
Dr. Zhou receives AHA Melvin L. Marcus Early Career Investigator Award in Basic Cardiovascular Science as a finalist. Read more here.
October 20, 2021
Lab PhD student Yawen (Grace) Tang successfully defends her PhD. Grace will pursue postdoctoral studies in Zhou lab to continue invstigating how transcriptional factors combinatorially orchestra cell fate conversion. Congratulations Dr. Tang!
April 21, 2021
Congratulations to Grace for her paper “Inhibition of EZH2 Primes the Cardiac Gene Activation via Removal of Epigenetic Repression during Human Direct Cardiac Reprogramming” which is formally accepted for publication in Stem Cell Research!
March 25, 2021
Congratulations to Patrick for his review paper “Cardiac Fibroblasts and Myocardial Regeneration” published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology!
2020
August 25, 2020
We are so thrilled to announce that Dr. Zhou received her first NIH R01 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NHLBI). Big congratulations!
August 20, 2020
Dr. Zhou was interviewed by Circulation Research to discuss research and early career development. Enjoy listening to the episode from Discover CircRes!
July 29, 2020
Dr. Zhou was selected as the finalist of the Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award at the Basic Cardiovascular Sciences (BCVS) 2020 Scientific Sessions, American Heart Association. Congratulations!
2019
May 22, 2019
Dr. Zhou’s paper “Singe cell transcriptomic analyses of cell fate transitions during human cardiac reprogramming” is accepted for publication in Cell Stem Cell. Congratulations! link