Team
Principal Investigator
Lai Wen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Office Location
Center for Molecular Medicine (CMM)
Room 207D
Phone: (775) 682-8288
Email: lwen@unr.edu
About
Lai received his Ph.D. training with Dr. Robert Feil at the University of Tubingen and postdoctoral training with Dr. Klaus Ley at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology. In September 2022, he joined the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, where he now leads a lab that focuses on leukocyte adhesion in cardiovascular inflammation.
Education and Training
2017-2022 Postdoctoral fellow/Instructor, La Jolla Institute for Immunology, San Diego, CA, USA
2014-2017 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
2009-2014 Ph.D. (summa cum laude), University of Tübingen, Germany
Awards and Honors
2022 American Heart Association (AHA) Career Development Award
2022 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Trainee Abstract Award
2020 American Association of Immunologists (AAI) Trainee Poster Award
2019 American Heart Association (AHA) Postdoctoral Fellowship
2015 Young Investigator Award, 7th International Conference on cGMP, Trier, Germany
2015 Travel Grant, Boheringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany
2014 Rudolf-Buchheim-Award, German Society for Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology
2014 Doctoral degree awarded with the mark of “summa cum laude”
2013 Poster Award, 6th International Conference on cGMP, Erfurt, Germany
2009 Travel Grant, Boheringer Ingelheim Fonds, Germany
Team members
Serena Lee
CMPP Graduate student
Gulinare Halimu
Research Assistant
Grant Yu
Biochemistry undergraduate student
Rithika Uppu
Microbiology undergraduate student
William Le
Biochemistry undergraduate student
Alumni:
Aubrin Sarder (Biochemistry undergrad student)