Zhuldyz Zhanzak, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Diabetes Center
School of Medicine

Awards

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• American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, UCSF, 2025-2028
• Laney Graduate School 3MT Finalist, Emory University, 2025
• Laney Graduate School Fellowship, Emory University, 2019-2025
• American Physiological Society UGREF Fellowship, Stanford University, 2018
• Amgen Scholar Program, University of Tokyo, 2017
• WEP Program, KAUST, 2016
• Academic Excellence Scholarship, Nazarbayev University, 2015-2019

Education & Training

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• Ph.D. Immunology Emory University 08/2025
• B.S. Biological Sciences Nazarbayev University 08/2019

Websites

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• www.linkedin.com/in/zhuldyz-zhanzak (linkedin.com)
• https://x.com/Zhuldyz_Zhanzak (x.com)

Grants and Projects

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• Defining the self-immunopeptidome and its role in CD4 T cell tolerance in Type 1 Diabetes, American Diabetes Association Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2026-2028

Publications (6)

Top publication keywords:
IsoantibodiesKidney TransplantationAntigen PresentationMice, Inbred BALB CSkin TransplantationGraft RejectionHLA-A AntigensPeptidesEpitopes, T-LymphocyteHLA-DQ AntigensTransplantation ToleranceCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesMajor Histocompatibility ComplexEpitope MappingOrgan Transplantation

• HLA-DQ monomer-based enrichment of alloreactive CD4 T cells.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2025 Zhanzak Z, Cina D, Zhang X, Hadley A, Kissick HT, Larsen CP
• Identification of indirect CD4+ T cell epitopes associated with transplant rejection provides a target for donor-specific tolerance induction.
  Immunity 2025 Zhanzak Z, Johnson AC, Foster P, Cardenas MA, Morris AB, Zhang J, Karadkhele G, Badell IR, Morris AA, Au-Yeung BB, Roversi FM, Silva JAF, Breeden C, Hadley A, Zhang W, Larsen CP, Kissick HT
• Major histocompatibility complex and peptide specificity underpin CD8+ T cell direct alloresponse.
  American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons 2024 Zhang W, Roversi FM, Morris AB, Ortiz K, Zhou G, Hadley A, Zhang X, Silva JAF, Breeden CP, Zhanzak Z, Kissick HT, Larsen CP
• Implications of MHC-restricted immunopeptidome in transplantation.
  Frontiers in immunology 2024 Zhanzak Z, Cina D, Johnson AC, Larsen CP
• Systematic analysis of NLMP suggests nuclear localization of RTK/MET kinases resemble cancer cell clearance.
  Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR 2019 Xie Y, Nurkesh AA, Ibragimova N, Zhanzak Z, Meyerbekova A, Alexeyeva Z, Yesbolatova A, Satayeva M, Mustafa A, Manarbek L, Maipas A, Altaikyzy A, Keneskhanova Z, Akbay B, Chen Z
• Re: Long-term Psychological and Quality-of-life Effects of Active Surveillance and Watchful Waiting After Diagnosis of Low-risk Localised Prostate Cancer.
  European urology 2017 Ibragimova N, Zhanzak Z, Meyerbekova A, Xie Y