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Liangwen Zhong is an Associate Research Scientist at Yale School of Medicine, specializing in genetics. He trained as a Reproductive Biologist from 2008 to 2016 and worked as a clinical embryologist from 2016 to 2017 at the University of Science and Technology of China affiliated hospital IVF lab. His research focuses on genetic causes of spermatogenic failure and male infertility, evolving into postdoctoral training in stem cell biology from 2017 to 2022. At the UT Health, he studied directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into lung progenitors and maintained mouse embryonic stem cell pluripotency at Weill Cornell Medicine. Early in his career, Liangwen generated numerous mouse models to investigate non-azoospermia symptoms and identified novel functional genes responsible for meiotic failure. He found that lipids promoted embryonic stem cell development. Since August 2022, he has been a part of the Sozen lab, exploring the roles of metabolism and intracellular signaling in stem-cell based embryo development during natural mammalian embryogenesis.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.