Areas of Focus
- Cardiovascular development and disease
- Epigenetics in cardiovascular disease
- Transcriptional regulation mechanisms
- Regenerative medicine for cardiovascular disease
Work Experience
- 2009-2014 - Postdoctoral Researcher, Cardiovascular Department, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
- 2015-Present - Lecturer, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Supervisor: William Pu
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2002 - Bachelor in Biopharmaceuticals: China Pharmaceutical University
- 2008 - PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, under the guidance of Xu Guoliang
- Total citations of published papers exceed 3500 (Google Scholar)
Publications
- Molecule in mothers’ milk nurses pups’ heart cells to maturity, Pingzhu Zhou, William Pu, 2023
- Dynamic changes in P300 enhancers and enhancer-promoter contacts control mouse cardiomyocyte maturation, Pingzhu Zhou, Nathan J. VanDusen, Yanchun Zhang, Yangpo Cao, Isha Sethi, Rong Hu, Shuo Zhang, Guangyu Wang, Lincai Ye, Neil Mazumdar, Jian Chen, Xiaoran Zhang Yuxuan Guo, Bin Li, Qing Ma, Julianna Y. Lee, Wei-liang Gu, Guo-Cheng Yuan, Bing Ren, Kaifu Chen, William T. Pu, 2023
- GATA4 regulates developing endocardium through interaction with ETS1, Pingzhu Zhou, Yan Zhang, Isha Sethi, Lincai Ye, Michael A. Trembley, Yangpo Cao, Brynn N. Akerberg, Feng Xiao, Xiaoran Zhang, Kai Li, Blake D. Jardin, Neil Mazumdar, Qing Ma, Aibin He, Bin Zhou, William T. Pu, 2022
- Mapping cell type-specific transcriptional enhancers using high affinity, lineage-specific Ep300 bioChIP-seq, Pingzhu Zhou, Fei Gu, Lina Zhang, Brynn N. Akerberg, Qing Ma, Kai Li, Aibin He, Zhiqiang Lin, Sean M. Stevens, Bin Zhou, William T. Pu, 2017
- Recounting Cardiac Cellular Composition, Pingzhu Zhou, William T. Pu, 2016
- Interrogating translational efficiency and lineage-specific transcriptomes using ribosome affinity purification, Pingzhu Zhou, Yijing Zhang, Qing Ma, Fei Gu, Daniel S. Day, Aibin He, Bin Zhou, Jing Li, Sean M. Stevens, Daniel Romo, William T. Pu, 2013
