Meet the Team

Principal Investigator
Bishuang Cai, PhD
 
Bishuang Cai received her PhD from the University of Nebraska Medical Center, where she studied endocytic trafficking, in 2013. She then joined Dr. Ira Tabas’ s lab at Columbia University Irving Medical Center as a postdoctoral research scientist to pursue translational research with an emphasis on macrophage biology in cardiometabolic diseases. In July 2020, Dr. Cai joined Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai as an Assistant Professor to start her independent research career. Her current research focuses on defective inflammation resolution in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and NASH-related cardiometabolic diseases. 
Education and  Training
2008-2013: PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha
2013-
2017: Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY (AHA Postdoctoral Fellow)
2017-2020: Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY (NIDDK K99/R00)                                                      

Postdoctoral Fellow
Fanglin Ma, PhD

Email: fanglin.ma@mssm.edu

Education:

PhD.– Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

BS. – Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University, China

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Amaia, Navarro Corcuera, PhD

Email: amaia.navarrocorcuera@mssm.edu

Education:

PhD. – Universidad de Navarra, Spain

Nottingham Trent University, England

MSc. – Universidad de Navarra, Spain

BSc. – Universidad de Navarra, Spain

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Neha Gupta, PhD

Email: neha.gupta@mssm.edu 

Education:

PhD. – University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli Naples, Italy | BIOGEM research Institute Ariano Irpino, Avellino Italy

MSc. – Banasthali University Rajasthan, India

BSc. –H.N.B Garhwal Central University Srinagar, Uttrakhand India

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yiwei Zhu, PhD

Email: yiwei.zhu@mssm.edu 

Education: 

PhD.– Jilin University, China

MS. – Jilin University, China

BS. – Jilin University, China

 

Postdoctoral Fellow
Satya Prakash, PhD

Email: satya.prakash@mssm.edu

Education:

PhD. – Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology Allahabad, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India

MTech. – Delhi Technological University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering), New Delhi, India

BTech. – Lovely Professional University, Jalandhar, Punjab, India

Research Assistant
Syed Hussain