Affiliation: Emory University, School of Medicine

Jihnu Wang’s broad research goal is to understand how regenerative responses to injury have been optimized in non-mammalian vertebrates like zebrafish to discover new targets that underlie regenerative deficiencies in mammals. During his postdoctoral training with Dr. Kenneth Poss, whose lab is a pioneer in tissue regeneration at Duke University Medical Center, he focused on zebrafish myocardial and epicardial regeneration biology. He gained extensive expertise in zebrafish heart histological analysis, cardiac regenerative responses, and transgenic analysis. Over the past several years, as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Cardiology at Emory University School of Medicine, his independent research program centers on how regeneration events such as cardiomyocyte proliferation, immune response, and revascularization are coordinated to obtain successful cardiac regeneration, with a specific focus on the role of non-myocardial cells on this coordination.