He earned his PhD at Peking Union Medical University, Beijing, China. Following graduation, he got his postdoctoral training in the fields of cardiovascular and stem cell biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The overall goal of his research is to apply the stem cell-based therapy for treatment of cardiac diseases. His major research interests include stem cell biology, cardiac lineage differentiation, cardiomyocytes electrophysiology and functional maturity, stem cell tissue engineering, and stem cell transplantation in animal model. Various techniques from in vitro biochemical, molecular biological, and functional analyses, to in vivo stem cell transplantation in animal model are employed to fulfill the proposed projects. The completed studies may offer novel approaches to repair cardiovascular diseases.