People
A Collaborative & Diverse Group

Zhiyu Dai, Ph.D., FAHA
Principle Investigator
Director, Translational Endothelial Research
Dr. Dai is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Medicine, Member of the Translational Cardiovascular Research Center, the BIO5 Institute, and the Sarver Heart Center, at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix. He received his B.S. from Shandong University and Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen University, China. Dr. Dai completed his postdoctoral training in lung vascular biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a Research Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago.


Bin Liu, PhD
Postdoc Researcher
Dr. Liu has been trained in Cancer Biology at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Dan Yi, PhD
Postdoc Researcher
Dr. Yi received her Ph.D. from the University of Lyon, France.

Karina Ramirez, PhD
Research Specialist
Dr. Ramirez graduated her B.S. from Arizona State University and Ph.D. from the University of Tsukuba, Japan.


Xiaomei Xia
Research Specialist

Anton Gao
Volunteer Student
Arizona State University
Undergraduate student

Ryan Dong
Arizona State University undergraduate student

Yanhong Cao
Visiting student


Syed Hamid
Master Student
Syed is a CTS Clinical Research master student at UA Phoenix

Hanqiu Zhao
PhD Student
Hanqiu is a PhD student in the CTS program

David Guo
high school student
David is a high school student at Scottsdale
We are recruiting Ph.D./MS students, and volunteers now.
Past lab members

Shuai Li, PhD
Dr. Li is an associate professor at Guangzhou Medical University, China.

Rebecca Li
UCLA undergraduate

Mengyao Zhao
ASU graduate

Ethan Ngo
ASU undergraduate

Jiakai Pan, BSc
Jiakai was a UC Berkeley graduate and is a Medical School student at Midwestern University at Glendale

Rogelio Miranda Mora, Flinn Intern
Rogelio is a undergraduate student at Duke University