Harvard Catalyst Profiles

University of California, Berkeley, CA	BA	05/2004	Molecular and Cell Biology
Yale University, New Haven, CT	PhD	12/2011	Genetics
Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT	Postdoc	05/2018	Cardiovascular and Developmental Biology

Dr. Shiaulou Yuan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yuan received his undergraduate degree in molecular cell biology from University of California, Berkeley in 2004 under Dr. Athanasios Theologis. He completed his Ph.D. in genetics from Yale University in 2011 with Dr. Zhaoxia Sun. Dr. Yuan performed his postdoctoral training in cardiovascular biology and developmental biology with Dr. Martina Brueckner at Yale School of Medicine. He received additional postdoctoral training in light sheet microscopy, laser nanosurgery techniques, and biophysical approaches with Dr. Joe Howard at Yale University and Dr. Scott Fraser at University of Southern California. In 2018, he started his own independent laboratory in the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Yuan’s research focuses on elucidating the cellular and molecular mechanisms that shape the developing heart, and in particular, the function of cilia in this process.

• Cilia
• Cilium
• Heterotaxy Syndrome
• Congenital Heart Defects
• Polycystic Kidney Diseases
• Left-Right Determination Factors
• Calcium Signaling
• Polycystins
• Microscopy
• Zebrafish