Wenfei Sun

Wenfei Sun is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at Stanford University. Originally from Zhejiang, China, Sun earned a B.S. from China Pharmaceutical University, an M.S. from Columbia University, and a D.Sc. from ETH Zurich. He performed his doctoral thesis with Prof. Christian Wolfrum, identying novel molecular and cellular circuits that govern adipose tissue formation and function. From 2021–2025, Sun trained as a postdoctoral fellow with Drs. Steve Quake and Tom Südhof at Stanford, where he investigated the cellular and molecular basis of memory engrams, revealed astrocyte–neuron interactions during memory consolidation, and delineated neural circuits underlying socially transmitted food memory. Launching his laboratory at Stanford in 2025, Sun integrates neuroscience, metabolism, and genomics to explore how neural circuits regulate metabolic homeostasis and memory, with an emphasis on neuro-adipose communication and tool building that accelerates discovery.