Title: Research on skin stem cells in tissue engineering
Lecturer：Wu Xiaoyang， Assistant Professor
Professor Wu Xiaoyang is an assistant professor at the Ben May Department for Cancer Research at the University of Chicago. He graduated from Cornell University in 2006 with a Ph.D. in pharmacology. His main research focuses on the dynamics, signal transduction and clinical application of skin stem cells: 1) regenerative tissue engineering research derived from skin stem cells; 2) migration of epidermal stem/progenitor cells and cytoskeletal dynamics; 3) epidermis Stem cell differentiation and molecular mechanisms. Up to now, his research has received 10 research grants from NIH, etc. He has published more than 50 papers in internationally renowned journals such as Cell Stem Cell, Nature Communications, and EMBO Journal, and has won 3 international patents and more than 40 invited reports. Professor Wu Xiaoyang is an editor of Cell Stress magazine and a peer reviewer of American Cancer Society. He is a member of Science, Nature Cell Biology, Elife, PNAS, Journal of Investigative Dermatology, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Journal of Cell Science, etc. Simultaneously，he is also the member of the Biology Society, the American Heart Association, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Time: 9:30 am, July 9, 2018
Venue: Conference Room on the second floor of the Institute of Translational Medicine (First Experimental Building of Qianhu Medical College District)