EDUCATION

YEAR
2019-present

DEGREE

FIELD OF STUDY
Biomed. Engineering

INSTITUTION
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

POSITION

YEAR
2019-present

POSITION
Research Assistant (PhD Student), Dept. Biomedical Engineering, the University of Alabama at Birmingham

RESEARCH

– Human-induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiac cell transplantation in vivo
– Single-nuclei RNA sequencing in cardiac tissue

BIO

To be updated.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Nguyen, T.M., Wei, Y. (co-first), Nakada, Y., Zhou, Y. and Zhang, J., Cardiomyocyte cell-cycle regulation in neonatal large mammals: Single Nucleus RNA-sequencing Data analysis via an Artificial-intelligence–based pipeline. Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, p.972.
2. Zhao M, Nakada Y, Wei Y, Bian W, Chu Y, Borovjagin AV, Xie M, Zhu W, Nguyen T, Zhou Y, Serpooshan V. Cyclin D2 Overexpression Enhances the Efficacy of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell–Derived Cardiomyocytes for Myocardial Repair in a Swine Model of Myocardial Infarction. Circulation. 2021 Jul 20;144(3):210-28.
3. Gao L, Wang L, Wei Y, Krishnamurthy P, Walcott GP, Menasché P, Zhang J. Exosomes secreted by hiPSC-derived cardiac cells improve recovery from myocardial infarction in swine. Science Translational Medicine. 2020 Sep 16;12(561):eaay1318.
4. Zhao M, Zhang E, Wei Y, Zhou Y, Walcott GP, Zhang J. Apical resection prolongs the cell cycle activity and promotes myocardial regeneration after left ventricular injury in neonatal pig. Circulation. 2020 Sep 1;142(9):913-6.