Affiliation: Mayo Clinic

Dr. Xiaolei Xu is a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Genetics and Genetic Engineering from Fudan University, China in 1989, and PhD in Developmental Genetics from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York in 1999. He started to work with the zebrafish model in 1999 when he was a post-doc fellow at the Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He is the director of the Zebrafish Genetics Lab at Mayo Clinic since 2003 and a professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology since 2018. The overall goals of his program are to generate adult zebrafish models of human cardiac diseases, to decipher underlying mechanisms, and to develop mechanism-based therapies.