Welcome to Taojin Peng and Zhixuan Song's Senior Design Project!

Modeling APOE Genotype-Specific Alzheimer's Disease Pathology Using Isogenic iPSC-Derived Brain Organoids.

Principal Investigator: Dr. Sheng Zhong, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering

Laboratory Website: https://systemsbio.ucsd.edu

Meet the Team!

Taojin Peng

Teammate: Taojin Peng

Senior Year | Bioengineering: Biotechnology

Hi! My name is Taojin Peng, nice to meet you! I created this website and hope you enjoy it ^^

Junchen Chen

Mentor: Junchen Chen

Postdoc Scholar at Zhong Lab

Nice to meet you!

Zhixuan Song

Teammate: Zhixuan Song

Senior Year | Bioengineering: Biotechnology

Hi there! I’m Zhixuan, a senior biotechnology major at UCSD and the proud “mom” of our brain organoid family. Together with Taojin, I’m raising the first generation of APOE-genotype–specific brain organoid models. Tiny brains, big ambitions😜