Speaker
Chuanxi Cai
University of Virginia, USA
Biography :
Dr. Chuanxi Cai was trained (PhD) in the Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Beijing), and he joined Rutgers University in the USA as a postdoctoral Fellow and was awarded a postdoc fellowship by American Heart Association. He initiated the discovery of a muscle-specific protein named MG53 (TRIM72) in cell membrane repair. This important finding resulted in several landmark papers published in Nature Cell Biology, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communication and Journal of Biological Chemistry. He then joined the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Louisville in Kentucky as an Assistant professor. He was recently recruited to the Department of Surgery at the University of Virginia as a tenured Associate Professor. The research in his lab mainly focusses on cancer research and myocardial repair with different animal models.
