Affiliation: Nationwide Children’s Hospital/The Ohio State University

Dr. Zhao is a Principal Investigator in the Center for Cardiovascular Research at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in the Department of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University College of Medicine in Columbus, Ohio. He earned his PhD degree under the mentorship of Dr. Randall Prather at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO. Subsequently, Dr. Zhao completed his postdoc fellowship with Drs. Joseph Wu and Michael Snyder at Stanford University School of Medicine, followed by an instructor position at Stanford Cardiovascular Institute in 2018. In August 2019, he moved to Columbus to set up his independent laboratory in the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Dr. Zhao’s research laboratory aims to decipher the molecular mechanisms controlling heart development and discover novel treatment for congenital heart disease using patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).