Laboratory Members of Lipid Metabolism and Cardiovascular Signaling

text size:    Jonas Galper, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Galper received his BA in chemistry from Harvard College. He received his MD and PhD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and did his house staff training at New England Medical Center (now Tufts Medical Center).  He served as a Clinical Associate at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health.  He received his fellowship training in Cardiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and became a faculty member at the Harvard Medical School and attending physician at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital as an instructor, assistant professor and associate professor.  He is an Established Investigator of the American Heart Association and has served on the editorial boards of Circulation Research and the Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology.  Dr. Galper has a program for the study of the role of lipids in signaling in the cardiovascular system and is involved in collaborations with Drs. Richard Karas and Mark Estes.   Jonas Galper Ho-Jin Park, Ph.D. Dr. Park earned his doctoral degree in Biochemistry from the University of Bayreuth, Germany, studying NAD(P)H oxidase from thermophiles in the Laboratory of Dr. Mathias Sprinzl.  He then joined Dr. Tom RajBhandary’s laboratory of Molecular Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, for a postdoctoral position working on the regulation of protein biosynthesis machinery in mammalian cells, and subsequently joined Dr. Jonas Galper’s laboratory in Division of Cardiovascular Research at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School in Boston where he then served as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.  He has been actively investigating the role of lipid metabolism in angiogenesis and atonomic responsiveness using in vitro and in vivo models. In 2003, he joined Molecular Cardiology Research Institute as a Research Investigator and currently holds an appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine.   Ho-Jin Park Serban Georgescu, M.D. Serban P. Georgescu earned his M.D. at the "Carol Davila" University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania in 1993. He completed his internship in Cardiology in Romania, and then spent two years in the Department of Medicine III at the Tokyo University focusing on the permanent exit from the cell cycle of cardiac myocytes from neonatal rats. In 1996, he entered a fellowship in the Department of Cardiac Catheterization and General Angiography at the "C.C.Iliescu" Institute of Cardiology in Bucharest. He joined the Molecular Cardiology Research Center at Tufts Medical Center as research fellow in Medicine in 1998.   Serban Georgescu JingJing Liu, M.D., Ph.D. Dr. Liu earned her MD from Nanjing Medical University and received her cardiology training at West China Hospital/West China Medical University in China. She earned her doctoral degree in Cell and Molecular Biology from Colorado State University. After serving as a postdoctoral research fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, she joined the Galper lab as a postdoctoral research fellow.   JingJing Liu Kristen Picard Kristen Picard received her B.S. in Biology with a concentration in forensic science in 2005 from Cedar Crest College in Allentown, PA.  While studying there, she completed a lab in the DNA unit where she assisted with the validation of RT-PCR for use in forensic biological testing.  She then worked as a research technician in the laboratory of Dr. Arthur Tischler in the Pathology Department of Tufts Medical Center for two years where she employed cellular/molecular/and biochemical techniques in the study of pheochronocytomas, a neuroendocrine tumor of the adrenal medulla.   Kristen Picard Bonnie Wang, M.D. Bo Wang received her M.D. degree from the Kunming Medical College and was an Assistant Professor/Physician-in-charge in China (1st Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical College from 1990-2001). Prior to joining the MCRI she worked as a Research Associate in CV Research labs at BU, BWH and BIDMC. As a Research Associate in the Galper lab, Dr. Wang is working with an abdominal aortic aneurysm mouse model.   Bonnie Wang Yali Zhang, M.D., Ph.D. Yali Zhang  earned her MD from Tianjin Medical University, China in 1997. After receiving her PhD in Pharmacology from Peking University Health Science Center (Beijing Medicine University) in China, she joined Dr. Galper's lab in the MCRI as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2005. She is currently studying the role of lipid metabolism in angiogenesis and atonomic responsiveness using in vitro and in vivo models.   Yali Zhang