Starr Jiang

Starr Jiang grew up in Ohio and graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from Ohio State, where he studied age-associated dysfunction in microglia-astrocyte crosstalk in the lab of Dr. Jonathan Godbout. He then worked as a technician in Dr. Dan Finley's lab at Harvard Medical School, studying how the ubiquitin proteasome system drives proteome turnover in terminal erythropoiesis. He began his MD-PhD studies at Weill Cornell in 2024. Clinically, he is interested in caring for patients with neurodegenerative disease. Scientifically, in the Gan lab he is interested in leveraging mass spectrometry-based proteomics and iPSC models to better understand the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's.

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Research Interests: Mechanisms of neurodegeneration, proteomics, proteostasis, biochemistry

Hobbies: Trying new restaurants, Costco and its food court, playing music, basketball