Meet the 2025 Winner - Tian Jiang, MD, PhD
Tian Jiang, MD, PhD is a resident doctor in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Zhongshan hospital Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Dr. Jiang received a PhD degree in Thoracic Surgery in 2022 at Fudan University in Shanghai (Supervisor: Prof. Lijie Tan), and as a joint-PhD student at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany (Supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Kuebler). Throughout his tenure, Dr. Jiang focused on unraveling the role of endothelial cell dysfunction in pulmonary diseases, including acute lung injury/acute respiratory distress syndrome, pulmonary arterial hypertension, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and donor lung preservation in lung transplantation.
His prior investigations revealed the role of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM) in platelet-activating factor (PAF)-induced pulmonary edema, the mechanism of PGE2 receptor 3 (EP3) activation in lung edema, and the multifaceted posttranslational regulation of TRPC6 in lung endothelial permeability, providing a theoretical and experimental basis for elucidating the mechanism of pulmonary edema. Currently, his research interest includes: 1) the role of transmembrane semaphorin family members in pulmonary arterial hypertension, 2) the functional heterogeneity of lysine lactylation of RNA splicing factors in acute lung injury, and 3) the mechanisms of EVLP on donor lung preservation in lung transplantation.
Description
This award is given to the highest rated abstract in the Pulmonary Hypertension category submitted to the Assembly on Pulmonary Circulation.