The CVRI is pleased to announce that Jingli Cao, Ph.D. will join the CVRI faculty on October 1, 2018.
Dr. Cao’s laboratory will focus on cardiac regeneration, and build upon his paradigm-changing work performed while a postdoctoral fellow in lab of Ken Poss at Duke University. Using the zebrafish model, Dr. Cao developed a powerful explant system and showed that the epicardium is critical in the cardiac regeneration process.
He recently received a prestigious American Heart Association Career Development Award to support his pioneering research in the CVRI. Before joining the Poss lab, Dr. Cao received his PhD from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Dr. Cao’s primary appointment will be in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology at Weill Cornell Medicine.