Paper Voice & Paper Nexus: listen, read, connect
Two free, open-source Zotero companions from Kang Lab: listen closely with Paper Voice, then follow citations and research connections with Paper Nexus.
KANG LAB · RETINAL BIOLOGY
The retina across
development,
aging & evolution.
We study how retinal cells acquire their identities, change with age, and diversify across species, connecting molecular mechanisms with single-cell and spatial genomics.
Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine
Lab news
All news ↗Welcome to our four new students
Kang Lab welcomes Bin Tong, Fu-Ji Deng, Min-Yu Xing and Han Gong to our 2026 incoming cohort.
DDX19B study published in Communications Biology
A 2026 Communications Biology paper examines DDX19B and post-meiotic 3′-UTR profile shifts in mice.
OUR QUESTIONS
Research directions
01 / PRIMARY FOCUS
Retinal development, aging & evolution
How is retinal cell diversity generated, maintained over time, and reshaped across species?
DevelopmentAgingEvolution
SELECTED WORK
From questions to discoveries
2026
Systematic discovery of retina-enriched Rik genes identifies 1190005I06Rik as a novel modulator of visual signalling
Journal of Translational Medicine DOI ↗
2022
2017
OPEN SCIENCE
Explore, query, reuse.
Expression atlas
Query genes across seven bulk, single-cell and spatial datasets. Compare expression, explore orthologs and download figures or data.
Open the atlas ↗Tools for reproducible research
Explore research software and workflows for regulatory genomics, spatial analysis and scientific literature.
Browse software ↗