Taixing Cui , MD, PhD
- Professor Medical Pharmacology and Physiology
Research
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Areas of expertise
- Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
- Translational/Clinical Neuroscience
Research Summary
The Cui Lab is interested in understanding the nature of cardiovascular adaptive responses, as well as maladaptive remodeling and dysfunction across diverse pathological settings. We have focused on the intercellular and interorgan communications in cardiovascular adaptation and maladaptation. They take a multidisciplinary approach to explore the underlying cellular and molecular atlases and identify novel therapeutic targets for cardiovascular disease.
There are four areas of technical strengths in the laboratory: 1) Conventional and inducible cardiovascular tissue-restricted genetic manipulation in vivo; 2) Genetic inducible fate mapping of endothelial cells, vascular smooth muscle cells, adventitial fibroblasts, and resident cardiovascular stem cells in vivo; 3) Cardiovascular physiology analyses at the cell, organ, and whole animal levels; 4) Conventional and high-throughput analyses, such as single-cell or nuclear RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq or snRNA-seq) and Special Transcriptomics (ST) analyses in vitro and in vivo.