Welcome to the Zhu Research Group at Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University.
Latest News:
May 2024
Chris is awarded the OSU 2024 Early Career Distinguished Scholar Award! Thank you, Ohio State Enterprise for Research, Innovation and Knowledge (ERIK), and HS/HN colleagues for your supports! This is a reflection of our group efforts and momentum in cutting edge research!
March 2024
Congratulations to Rui Xu for her successful exit seminar and PhD defense! Good luck, Dr. Xu, to your new endeavor in Northern California!
March 2024
Congratulations to Fouad Choueiry for his successful exit seminar and PhD defense! Good luck to your future endeavor, Dr. Choueiry!
January 2024
Congratulations to our new publications by Rui, Li, Fouad, and Shiqi, a great way to start the new year!
December 2023
End of the year celebration, looking forward to a better 2024!
July 2023
Congratulations to Shiqi for her Robert Suskind and Leslie Lewinter-Suskind Pediatric Nutrition Student Award from the American Society of Nutrition! An amazing achievement with a national recognition!
January 2023
Congratulation to Fouad for his Pelotonia Graduate Fellowship! Way to go, Fouad!
August 2022
Working with a fantastic team led by PI Dr. Jacob (Co-PIs Dr. Schultz and Dr. Zhu), our lab was funded to perform an exciting project supported by IARPA that will investigate radiation-induced biomarkers using advanced mass spectrometry techniques.
August 2022
Our NIH/NIGMS application for an admin equipment fund to purchase a state-of-the-art bioreactor system was awarded! Thanks, NIGMS!
April 2022
We are pleased to announce that our very first clinical study, titled “Assessing Gut Microbiota Mediated Health Outcomes Of Whole Wheat And Its Major Bioactive Components” is funded by USDA/NIFA! This is a truly collaborative project by the Zhu lab, the Bruno lab and the Peterson lab, as well as Dr. Matthew Teegarden and Dr. Xiaokui (Molly) Mo. Briefly, the objectives of this study are to investigate the gut microbiota-mediated effect of whole wheat consumption on the fecal and plasma metabolomes, metabolic health, and gut health in a cohort of adults with prediabetes. Thank you, USDA/NIFA for the support!
March 2022
Check our our latest publications by Fouad, Andrew, and Shiqi on EBM/JPR, Cancers and ACS Omega.
December 2021
The Spakowicz lab and the Zhu lab collaboratively obtained a Pelatonia IRF grant titled “Dietary interventions to modify response to immunotherapy: a companion assessment within the NutriCare Study”. The proposed study will leverage existing clinical trial in cancer patients to understand how micriobiome and their metabolites as biomarkers of cancer could impact immunotherapy and potentially improve treatment.Congrats to the team work!
November 2021
Rui and Fouad attended the 2021 ASMS annual conference, and showcased their work in oral presentation and poster session, respectively. Well done!
Fouad’s second paper, the SESI-HRMS study of lung cancer VOCs, is accepted by Analytica Chimica Acta, Congrats!
October 2021
All three third-year graduate students, Shiqi, Fouad, and Rui have successfully passed their candidacy exam, congratulations to all!
August 2021
Our lab received the EHE ‘Big Idea’ grant to study the impact of prebiotics on gut health in an infant gut model. Thank you, EHE!
August 2021
We have two new OSUN graduate students, Andrew Gold and Ming Hu, joined our lab starting this semester. Welcome, Andrew and Ming!
July 2021
Check out our latest publications by Li, Rui, and Fouad on JPR, Molecular Omics, and Cancers!
September 2020
Our lab was recently awarded an Administrative Supplement to our NIH/NIGMS R35 Grant to purchase a mass spec system for advanced metabolomics and volatiomics analysis. Thank you, NIGMS!
Chris presented a session keynote talk at this year’s Metabolomics Association of North American (MANA) Annual Conference (online), the title of his presentation was “Advanced volatilome analysis for the assessment of gut microbial metabolism”.
August 2020
Congratulations to Jisun and Li for their new publications on the SESI-HRMS study and hybrid metabolomics review, please check out their papers from our publication list.
January 2020
We are so glad that two new postdoctoral researchers, Dr. Jisun Lee and Dr. Li Chen joined our lab starting from this month. WELCOME Jisun and Li!
October 2019
Xiaowei presented at this year’s OMSMS symposium, she talked about our joint project with the Bruno lab titled ‘Investigating the metabolic impact of green tea extract and its major constitutes on gut microbial metabolism in obese mice model’. Nice work, Xiaowei!
August 2019
The Zhu lab received one-year Discovery Theme Food for Health Seed Grant of $25,000 to work on a project titled “Food products for the targeted enrichment of gut microbes.” This is a collaborative project with four investigators (Dr. Daniel Spakowicz and Dr. Qin Ma from the College of Medicine; Dr. Yael Vodovotz from College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Sciences; and Dr. Zhu) who will work together to identify OSU food products that increase the abundance of a bacterium shown to improve cancer outcomes. Thank you, FFH!
August 2019
Dr. Zhu received a 5-year, $1.78 million NIH/NIGMS R35 Maximize Investigator Research Award for Early Stage Investigator, which will support his team’s study titled “Characterizing the Metabolome and Volatilome of Gut Microbiome.” This study will allow his team to develop and apply novel metabolomics tools to understand how the most intriguing microbial metabolites, such as those from bioconversion of functional food, could possibly impact host physiology and may therefore be appropriate targets for nutritional and therapeutic interventions. Thank you, NIGMS!
August 2019
Fouad Choueiry, Shiqi Zhang and Rui Xu, three OSUN graduate students have officially joined our lab. Welcome!
February 2019
Dr. Xiaowei Sun, a recent Miami Graduate, is now joining us as a Food For Health Postdoc Research Fellow. Welcome and congrats, Xiaowei!
January 2019
We have moved! The Zhu lab now relocated from Miami University of Ohio to The Ohio State University. Our new space is located in the Wiseman Hall Comprehensive Cancer Center. Check back later for our latest updates!