Alan Wu

Alan Wu is a first-year undergraduate student majoring in Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology from Thousand Oaks, California, who joined the Mack Lab in November 2026. He is on the pre-medicine track and has been fascinated by the heart since middle school. He joined the Mack Lab to learn the wet lab techniques needed to breed, screen, and image zebrafish while engaging in cardiovascular research, particularly how blood flow shapes calcium signaling in blood vessels. In high school, he published a systematic review on donor-derived cell-free DNA as a blood test for detecting kidney transplant rejection. In his free time, he loves playing badminton and the violin.