Yue Ma

Biography

1994-2000　 Ph. D., University of Massachusetts. 2000-2003　 Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Dr. James Thomson, University of Wisconsin. 2003-2006　 Senior Researcher, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington. 2006-present Professor (Principle Investigator), Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences 1994-2000　 Ph. D., University of Massachusetts. 2000-2003　 Postdoctoral fellow, Laboratory of Dr. James Thomson, University of Wisconsin. 2003-2006　 Senior Researcher, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington. 2006-present Professor (Principle Investigator), Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Research Interest

Myocardial infarction is one of the major causes of death in developed countries. InChina, more than one million new patients suffer a heart infarction each year. Under current technologies, there is no therapy that can cure this disease. Our long term goal is to develop stem cell based cardiac repair strategies for heart infarctions.Our recent work has focused on: 1).Humanized cell culture system for human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem cells. 2). Cardiac differentiation of human embryonic stem cells. 3) The isolation of high purity and clinical-grade cardiomyocytes. 4) Safer and higher efficiency methods to produce human induced pluripotent stem cells.