主要从事基因单核苷酸多态性对抗癌药物药效的影响以及动脉粥样硬化及血管内皮信号转导机制的研究。负责国家自然科学基金青年基金一项，已结题。

科研成果：

(1) Minjia Zhu#, Yi Fu#, Yingjian Hou, Nanping Wang, Youfei Guan, Chaoshu Tang, John Y.-J. Shyy, Yi Zhu*. Laminar flow up-regulates Liver X receptors in endothelial cells in vivo and in vitro. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 28(3):527-33, 2008.

(2) Aksoy P, Zhu MJ, Kalari KR, Moon I, Pelleymounter LL, Eckloff BW, Wieben ED, Yee VC, Weinshilboum RM, Wang L. Cytosolic 5'-nucleotidase III (NT5C3): gene sequence variation and functional genomics. Pharmacogenet Genomics. Aug;19(8):567-76, 2009.