En-Zhi Shen, PhD
Assistant Professor, Westlake University, China
Former RTI Lab: Postdoctoral fellow, Mello Lab
Training Period: 2015 - 2019
Prior Academic Institution: National Institute of Biological Sciences
Awards: Charles King Trust Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr. En-Zhi Shen received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the National Institute of Biological Sciences (Beijing) in 2014, working with Meng-Qiu Dong and collaborating closely with Heping (Peace) Cheng’s group at Peking University to study the function of mitochondria in aging. From 2015 to 2019, as a postdoctoral researcher in the Craig C. Mello lab in the RNA Therapeutics Institute at UMass Chan Medical School, he expanded his research to small RNA biology and function. In October 2019, Dr. Shen joined Westlake University as an Assistant Professor.