Dr. Ke Huang

Biography

Ke Huang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Texas A&M Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy. Prior to joining Texas A&M, he served as an Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University and as an Assistant Research Professor at North Carolina State University. He earned his MD from Shanxi Medical University in Taiyuan, China and completed his PhD in Comparative Biomedical Sciences at North Carolina State University, followed by postdoctoral training in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University. His contributions to cardiovascular research have been recognized with numerous honors, including the American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award and the NIH PCTC Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award. He became a Fellow of the American Heart Association (FAHA) in 2023. His teaching interests include cell biology and cardiovascular-related physiology, pharmacology, and pathology. Currently serving as a course coordinator for Advanced Pharmacology, he delivers lectures on courses such as Human Physiology. His laboratory focuses on engineering cell-derived biotherapeutics to treat cardiac conditions, integrating advanced drug delivery systems within disease models. His research is supported by an NIH R01 grant from NHLBI and has resulted in over 50 publications in high-impact journals.

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