News – Zheng's Lab

Zheng Lab Watches the Total Solar Eclipse!

Members of the Zheng Lab watched the total solar eclipse today! The next total solar eclipse in the US wont be until 2044 – in 20 years!

L to R: Yi Luo, Annabelle Rice, Dr. Mengxiao Yu, Dr. Samira Ahrari, Dr. Jie Zheng, Dr. Xuhui Ning, Hasti Arefeh Shafie, and Wei Xiao

The sky became darker as the eclipse proceded!

This composite photos shows the sequence of the Great Eclipse of 2024, over Cleveland, Ohio. — Composite photo of stages of eclipse over Clevend, Chris Quinn

Yi Luo accepted into UT Southwestern – UTD Biomedical Engineering Joint PhD Program

Congratulations to Yi Luo for being accepted into the UT Southwestern – UTD joint program for Biomedical Engineering!

Review Article “Physiological principles underlying the kidney targeting of renal nanomedicines” Published in Nature Reviews Nephrology

Congratulations to Yingu Huang, Xuhui Ning, Samira Ahrari, Mengxiao Yu, and Jie Zheng for having their work published in Nature Reviews Nephrology! This review article, Physiological principles underlying the kidney targeting of renal nanomedicines, covers what is currently known about the distribution, transport, and clearance of nanoparticles in the kidney, providing a necessary base of information to further research kidney disease and treatment via nanomedicines.

To read the abstract of this article, click the link below!

Physiological principles underlying the kidney targeting of renal nanomedicines | Nature Reviews Nephrology

Undergraduate Students Johnathan Bai and Annabelle Rice Recieve Undergraduate Research Scholars Award

Undergraduate students Johnathan Bai and Annabelle Rice were selected as URSA recipients after submitting a research proposal last semester! They will be competing at the URSA Poster competition on April 16th.

Zheng Lab welcomes Mozhdeh Ghafari!

Mozhdeh Ghafari has recently joined our lab as a graduate student! Mozhdeh graduated from Ishafan University of Technology in Iran with a B.S. in Applied Chemistry and has previously worked in pharmacology and drug delivery.

Follow the link below to see Mozhdeh’s profile!

Mozhdeh Ghafari – Zheng’s Lab (utdallas.edu)

Kidney Week 2023

(left to right) Dr. Samira Ahrari, Dr. Mengxiao Yu, Dr. Jie Zheng, Wei Xiao, and Hasti Shafie

Several members of our lab went to Philidelphia, PA for Kindey Week, the world’s premier nephrology meeting held by the American Society of Nephrology. Our members got to learn more about nephrology from some of the leading kidney experts in the country!

Kidney Regeneration Research Featured in Discover Magazine

Recently, our paper “Proximal tubules eliminate endocytosed gold nanoparticles through an organelle-extrusion-mediated self-renewal mechanism ” was discussed in an article about tissue and organ regeneration from Discover Magazine, an eductational STEM magazine. Follow the link below to see the article!

What Is Regeneration, and Can Other Organs Regenerate Like the Liver? | Discover Magazine

The Mercury: UTD researchers uncover novel kidney cell renewal

Dr. Jie Zheng, Dr. Mengxiao Yu, and Dr. Yingyu Huang’s research uncovering a previously unobserved renewal process in the kidney was recently featured in the UTD publication The Mercury.

The broad impact of our research [is that] — because it’s a new phenomenon we discovered — I think in [the] future we will explore how this tubular organelle actuation process changes with the disease progression.
Dr. Mengxiao Yu

To read the full article, click the link below!

UTD researchers uncover novel kidney cell renewal – THE MERCURY (utdmercury.com)