Kelly Lab

Members

Principal Investigator

Daniel P. Kelly, M.D.

Willard and Rhoda Ware Professor of Medicine
Director, Penn Cardiovascular Institute
Perelman School of Medicine
Contact:
215-898-0768
dankelly@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Staff

Teresa C. Leone

Kelly Lab Director
Associate Director, Scientific Administration and Operations
Penn Cardiovascular Institute, Perelman School of Medicine
Contact:
215-898-0768
terleone@pennmedicine.upenn.edu 

Raia Dierov

Lab Manager
Contact:
raia.dierov@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Ling Lai, M.D., Ph.D.

Senior Research Investigator
Project:
Exploring the biologic role of the coactivators PGC-1a/b in melanoma
Contact:
linglai@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

 Peihong Ma

Research Specialist
Project:
Oversight of Mouse Colony
Contact:
peihong@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Trainees

Justin Berger, M.D., Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Project:
Cardiac MondoA Signaling
Contact:
bergerj@email.chop.edu

Yuanjun Guo, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Project:
A proteomic approach to delineating regulators of cardiac myocyte maturation
Contact:
Yuanjun.Guo@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Timothy Matsuura, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Project:
Assessment of ketone body therapeutics for heart failure
Contact:
timothy.matsuura@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Elizabeth Pruzinsky

Graduate Student
Project:
Probing the metabolic basis for muscle fitness and performance
Contact:
elizabeth.pruzinsky@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Tomoya Sakamoto, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Project:
Nuclear receptor-miRNA circuits controlling striated muscle metabolism
Contact:
sakamoto@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Tsunehisa Yamamoto, M.D., Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Project:
Exploring transcriptional co-repressor (RIP140)signaling in the failing heart
Contact:
tsunehisa.yamamoto@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Xiaofei Yin, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Associate
Project:
Molecular mechanisms governing cardiac fuel metabolism
Contact:
xiaofei.yin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Undergraduate Students

Daniel Koropeckyj-Cox

Work Study Student
Contact:
ddkc@sas.upenn.edu

Christine Pae

Work Study Student
Contact:
cmpae@sas.upenn.edu

Allen Zhang

Student Worker
Contact:
allanz@sas.upenn.edu

Jeffrey Zhou

Student Worker
Contact:
zjeffrey@sas.upenn.edu