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Alan Zhu, Ph.D. | Research | Publications | Lab

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Alan J. Zhu, Ph.D.

Assistant Staff

Department of Cell Biology
Lerner Research Institute (NC10)
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
Tel.: (216) 444-9340
Fax: (216) 444-9404
zhua@ccf.org

Area of general research interest:

  • Hedgehog signaling in development and disease

Current program:

  • Identifying key regulators controlling Smoothened protein trafficking
  • Studying the transporter activity of Patched protein in initiating Hedgehog signaling
  • Investigating a Patched-related protein in membrane trafficking in early embryogenesis of Drosophila

Investigators:

  • Adam Schoen, B.S., Research Technician
  • Ying Su, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Jun-Zheng Zhang, B.S., Graduate Student
  • Jason Ospina, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow
  • Andrew Michelson, Undergraduate Research Student