Intro

I am currently a last year PhD candidate at ULB Center for Diabetes Research under the supervision of Prof Miriam Cnop.

I graduated in 2020 with my medical degree from The Second Xiangya Hospital,Central South University, where I was advised by Prof Zhiguang Zhou (周智广). Though being trained as a physician, however, my medical education has cultivated my keen interest in basic research of disease mechanisms.

Leveraging clinical and omics resources, my current work utilizes iPSC-derived islets to understand disease mechanisms in a patient-specific model that replicates β cell phenotype seen in individuals with SNP-associated and monogenic diabetes.

Meanwhile, I've been very lucky to be able to actively participate and been extensively exposed to both bioinformatics and phylogenetics studies during the past years.

In this regard, I am cultivating an interest toward a genomics-driven understanding of disease development, hoping to generate some evolutionary insights.

These experience fostered my interest in the following areas, toward which I would like to pursuit in my future.

1) Product Development and/or Translational Studies Through which exciting discoveries from benches return to bedside as well as daily life.

2) Bioinformatics and/or Phylogenetics Studies From which how certain pathways, cellular compartments, cells, and organs has been evolved to sustain modern species could be inferred.

I Like

• Rope Climbing and/or Bouldering (Highest priority: safe and soft descending.)
• Hiking (Lite version.)
• Fossil hunting (Usually find Belemnoidea instead of Ammonoidea.)
• Star gazing (I've seen the most beautiful Venus.)
• Procreate (I know how to draw an Ichthyosauria.)
• Podcasts: 凡事不烦, 天才捕手FM, 博物志, among others.
• Series: Person of Interest beyonds everything.
• Things that I am ignorant about.

Extras

• My stage/cafeteria name is "Bagel", but that hardly work in Brussels, so I adopted "Iris".
• This website is an extended version of my CV, so you need to read more.