Our Team
Current and past lab members

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Liming Pei, Ph.D.
peil@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Principal Investigator
Director of Fundamental Discovery, CHOP Cardiovascular Institute

Huajun Bai
Huajun Bai, Ph.D.
baih1@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Research Associate Scientist
Research Interests: GDF15 biology
Hobbies: reading and learning, attending seminars

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Peiran Lu, Ph.D.
lup1@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Genetics and Epigenetics
Hobbies: traveling, indoor gardening

Rasheed Sule
Rasheed Sule, Ph.D.
suler@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Cardiovascular diseases, Mitochondrial biology, Lipid Metabolism
Hobbies: Travelling, work-out/fitness, yoga, hiking, museums and art

Ting Peng
Ting Peng, Ph.D.
pengt1@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Research Associate Scientist
Research Interests: Genetics
Hobbies: Hiking, cooking, traveling

Aidan Bauer
Aidan Bauer
bauera5@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Graduate Student (Bioengineering)
Research Interests: Fibroblast metabolism and the progression of fibrotic diseases
Hobbies: Hanging out with my friends, playing basketball and exercising

Po Hu
Po Hu
po.hu@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
2019 05-31

Graduate Student (CAMB)
Research Interests: Genetics & Epigenetics, Human Genomics
Hobbies: Tennis, Free food from seminars, drinking coffee

Beishan Chen
Beishan Chen
beishan@seas.upenn.edu
2019 05-31

Graduate Student (Bioengineering)
Research Interests: Mitochondrial biology, Metabolism
Hobbies: playing with my doggies, tennis, scuba diving, baking, PUBG

Tiffany Hua
Tiffany Hua
tiffany.hua@pennmedicine.upenn.edu
2019 05-31

Graduate Student (CAMB)
Research Interests: Alternative splicing in the heart
Hobbies: reading, art, eating, PUBG

Liwen Su
Liwen Su
sul1@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Graduate Student (Bioengineering)
Research Interests: Mitochondrial biology
Hobbies: travelling, planting, "zoology", puzzles, calligraphy, PUBG

Jacob Scherba
Jacob Scherba
jscherba@seas.upenn.edu
2019 05-31

Graduate Student (Bioengineering)
Research Interests: Machine learning, Mechanometabolism of Heart Failure, Bioethics
Hobbies: Crossword puzzles, Michigan sports, cooking, working out

Duanduan Lin
Duanduan Lin
lind8@chop.edu
2019 05-31

Research Technician
Hobbies: yoga, reading, traveling, PUBG

Yuxiao Liang
Yuxiao Liang
2019 05-31

Student volunteer
Hobbies: traveling, cooking, PUBG

Deshuang Su
Deshuang Su
2019 05-31

Student volunteer
Hobbies: running, singing, and hanging out with friends

David Guo
David Guo
2019 05-31

Student volunteer
Hobbies: Pickleball, walking and playing with my rescue German Shepherd

Alaa Elhiraika
Alaa Elhiraika
2019 05-31

Student volunteer
Hobbies: watching documentaries on geopolitics and medicine, listening to music, and making coffee

Lab Alumni

  • Riley Sawka (Research Technician/Lab Manager, 2022-2024) - Graduate Student at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

  • Lu Gan (Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2022) – Scientist at Changchun GeneScience Pharmaceuticals Co.

  • Shyla Smith (Research assistant, 2019-2021) – Research coordinator at CHOP

  • Juanjuan Zhao (Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2021) – Principal scientist at WuXi PharmaTech

  • Mohammad Zarei (Postdoctoral fellow, 2018-2020) – Research associate at Harvard School of Public Health

  • Jing Jing Li (Postdoctoral fellow, 2017-2018) – Associate Investigator at Sun Yat-Sen University

  • Kate Lupino (Research assistant, 2016-2019) – Clinical researcher at University of Pennsylvania

  • Jian Liu (Postdoctoral fellow, 2016-2017) – Assistant Professor at Beijing University

  • Catilin McDonald (Research assistant, 2013-2016) – Clinical researcher at University of Pennsylvania

  • Xiandun Zhai (Postdoctoral fellow, 2014-2015) – Professor at Henan University of Science and Technology

  • Ting Wang (Postdoctoral fellow, 2013-2015) – Professor at Tianjin Medical University

Rotation Students

  • Tiffany Hua - CAMB, Summer 2025

  • Bat-Ider Tumenbayar - CAMB, Fall 2024

  • Ryan Gaspar – CAMB, Spring 2024

  • Po Hu – CAMB, Summer 2023

  • Lauren Lee – CAMB, Spring 2023

Previous Interns

  • Amritanshu Rana (2025) - Research Tech III at CHOP Research Institute, Division of Oncology

  • Wenting Zhao (2024-2025) - Research Associate at UMass Chan Medical School