About
Hao Zhang, MD., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He completed his medical training at Tsinghua University and a cardiology fellowship at Fuwai Hospital (Beijing, China). He was a postdoctoral researcher and instructor with Joe Wu in the Cardiovascular Institute at Stanford. Through a recruitment effort initiated by the Broad Stem Cell Research Center, Hao has a primary appointment in Physiology and membership in the BSCRC and CV Theme. He will be establishing a research program focused on the pathomechanisms and opportunities for therapeutic intervention in cardiac fibrosis. In these pursuits, he developed a multiscale platform to screen for antifibrotic compounds using human IPSC-derived cardiac fibroblasts, established safety in cardiac myocytes, and demonstrated efficacy in 3D-engineered heart tissues and mouse models of heart failure.