Areas of Focus
- Cardiac development and regeneration
- High-content drug screening targeting cardiomyocyte proliferation and maturation
- Application of drugs in animal models of cardiac injury
Academic Background & Achievements
- Bachelor's Degree: Department of Biological Sciences and Technology, Tsinghua University
- PhD: Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles
- Postdoctoral Research: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
- Selected for the National Overseas High-Level Talents Youth Program
- Lead and participated in multiple national natural science projects and key research and development projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology
Publications
- Jmjd4 facilitates Pkm2 degradation in cardiomyocytes and is protective against dilated cardiomyopathy, Yansong Tang, Mengying Feng, Yang Su, Teng Ma, Hongjie Zhang, Hongchun Wu, Xiaoyu Wang, Shuyue Shi, Ying Zhang, Yawei Xu, Shijun Hu, Ke Wei, Dachun Xu, 2023
- Dynamic chromatin landscape encodes programs for perinatal transition of cardiomyocytes, Jing Zhang, Zhaohui Ouyang, Limei Xia, Qi Wang, Feng Zheng, Kun Xu, Yuexian Xing, Ke Wei, Shaolin Shi, Chaojun Li, Jingping Yang, 2023
- AP-1 activation mediates postnatal cardiomyocyte maturation, Hongjie Zhang, Lijuan Pei, Zhaohui Ouyang, Haocun Wang, Xin Chen, Kai Jiang, Shiqi Huang, Rui Jiang, Yaozu Xiang, Ke Wei, 2022
- Single-cell transcriptomics of cardiac progenitors reveals functional subpopulations and their cooperative crosstalk in cardiac repair, Lei Gao, Hongjie Zhang, Jingyi Cui, Lijuan Pei, Shiqi Huang, Yaning Mao, Zhongmin Liu, Ke Wei, Hongming Zhu, 2021
- Epicardial FSTL1 Reconstitution Regenerates the Adult Mammalian Heart, Ke Wei, Vahid Serpooshan, Cecilia Hurtado, Marta Diez-Cuñado, Mingming Zhao, Sonomi Maruyama, Wenhong Zhu, Giovanni Fajardo, Michela Noseda, Kazuto Nakamura, Xueying Tian, Qiaozhen Liu, Andrew Wang, Yuka Matsuura, Paul Bushway, Wenqing Cai, Alex Savchenko, Morteza Mahmoudi, Michael D. Schneider, Maurice J. B. van den Hoff, Manish J. Butte, Phillip C. Yang, Kenneth Walsh, Bin Zhou, Daniel Bernstein, Mark Mercola, Pilar Ruiz-Lozano, 2015
