Kai Yee Chang
Research Assistant
Kai Yee is a Research Assistant in the Simões group, is studying how macrophages regulate cardiac regeneration and fibrosis. Her work uses zebrafish to dissect the cellular and molecular mechanisms of heart regeneration, alongside iPSC-derived cardiac organoids and CRISPR–Cas9 gene editing to investigate human cardiac development. Kai Yee holds a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Bristol and an MRes in Inflammation from the University of Edinburgh, where her research focused on the role of neutrophils in cancer initiation using zebrafish models.