Di Feng is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), and Harvard Medical School. Her lab focuses on genes and pathways contributing to the onset and pathogenesis of chronic kidney disease and hypertension. Her research integrates approaches in genetics, cellular and molecular biology, bioengineering, and whole animal studies. Leveraging the latest techniques across these disciplines, she aims to understand the interaction between defects in kidney cells and mechanical stress. She is characterizing how this interaction underlies familial forms of kidney disease to common forms of kidney disease—such as diabetic nephropathy—as well as renal drivers of systemic disease—such as salt-sensitive hypertension.
She received her Ph.D. in physiology under Dr. Allen Cowley at the Medical College of Wisconsin prior to completing post-doctoral training at BIDMC under Dr. Martin Pollak. Her work has been supported by the National Institutes on Heath, the Department of Defense, and the American Physiologic Society. She was named a STAT Wunderkind in 2019. She is also Director of the newly-established Super-Resolution and Multiphoton Imaging Center at BIDMC, supported by Massachusetts Life Sciences Center.