Dr. Dan Wang serves as an associate professor of medicine in the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine and leads the Human Hypertension Research Laboratory, which specializes for translational clinical vascular researches. With a longstanding interest in research of microvascular physiology, her current researches focuses on the mechanisms of systemic hypertension, chronic kidney disease, aging and HIV-associated cardiovascular comorbidity. The basic research portion entails studies of oxidative stress related genes, microvascular function and therapeutic strategies using rodent models of systemic hypertension and chronic kidney disease. The clinical/translational portion is focused on functional evaluation of living microvessels both ex vivo and in vivo. She has established a series of invasive and non-invasive human vascular function assessment technologies to investigate vascular function from larger vessels to small vessels and better understand their mechanisms and monitor the progress of vascular disease. Dr. Wang is the principle investigator of an active NIH-RO1 grant titled as “Accelerated aging of microvessels, perivascular adipose tissue in people living with HIV”.
With a longstanding interest in research of microvascular physiology, her current researches focuses on the mechanisms of systemic hypertension, chronic kidney disease, aging and HIV-associated cardiovascular comorbidity