Chunhui Xu, PhD

Biography

Chunhui Xu, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and a member of the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at Winship Cancer Institute. Dr. Xu has extensive research experience in stem cells and heart cell development. Her research focuses on heart cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). Her team has made significant contributions to the field, with several publications recognized as hot papers or among the most highly cited in hPSC research. She is an inventor or co-inventor of 18 issued U.S. patents, and her work has been cited more than 12,000 times, according to Google Scholar.

Education

Dr. Xu received her PhD from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia. She completed her postdoctoral training at the Burnham Institute in San Diego, California.

Titles & Roles

• Professor, Department of Pediatrics

  Emory University School of Medicine

Research

Research in Dr. Xu's laboratory is focused on human cardiomyocytes derived from human pluripotent stem cells, which hold promise for cardiac cell therapy, disease modeling, drug discovery and the study of developmental biology. They have been collaborating with investigators at Georgia Tech, Emory University, and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, establishing new technologies and disease models for stem cell and cardiovascular research.

Their research has been funded by National Cancer Institute, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Science Foundation, Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, American Heart Association and Health and Environmental Sciences Institute/U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Their spaceflight experiment was called a significant step for next-generation space research by the International Space Station National Laboratory, and featured by CNN, NASA and Chemical & Engineering News.

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