Research Team

Min Young Park 
Postdoctoral Associate

Min Young Park received her B.S. in Biotechnology from Korea University, Korea, in 2010. She continued to study in the lab of Nutritional Biochemistry in the same institute, and earned her Ph.D. in 2017 with her thesis project focused on the role of vitamin D in skeletal muscle fiber type-specific development. In June 2019, after one-year postdoc in the Functional Genomics and Bioinformatics lab, she joined Dr. Sitara’s lab. In her current project, Min Young Park is interested in studying the role of FGF23 in adipose tissue as a mediator of diet-induced obesity.

Stanislovas Jankauskas 
Postdoctoral Associate

Stanislovas Jankauskas earned his M.D. in 2011 from Pirogov Medical University, Moscow, Russia. In 2014 he received his Ph.D. in Human and Animal Physiology from Moscow State University with his thesis project on the mechanisms of renoprotection elicited by mitochondria-targeted antioxidants. Between 2011 and 2017, as a research fellow in the Laboratory of structure and function of mitochondria in Moscow State University, Stanislovas studied the role of mitophagy in age-dependent decline of renoprotection and the role of mitochondria in endothelium dysfunction in acute kidney injury. He then moved to Germany where he continued his postdoctoral training at the University Hospital RWTH in Aachen, Germany, and carried out translational research on uremic cardiomyopathy. In August 2019, Stanislovas joined Dr. Sitara’s lab at NYU College of Dentistry as a postdoctoral fellow, where he studies the FGF23-mediated organ cross-talk in obesity and kidney disease.