Wei Cheng

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

I am now a postdoctoral fellow in Krannert institute of cardiology, Indiana University School of Medicine since 2014.
I completed my Ph.D. in Molecular and cellular biology at Nanjing University, working on an apoptotic protein FADD in skeletal muscle regeneration and ageing. In recent years, I has focused on epigenetic mechanisms involved in cardiac development and diseases, especially lncRNAs and miRNAs. With intensive experiences in cardiology field, I have been selected as an editorial member of Cardiology Journal and Current Research: Cardiology.

Biochemistry Cardiology Cell Biology Developmental Biology Genetics Genomics Molecular Biology Oncology Translational Medicine

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Past or current institution affiliations

Indiana University

Work details

Postdoctoral fellow

Indiana University

July 2014

Medicine

Cellular and molecular mechanisms in heart development and diseases, including signaling transduction and transcriptional mechanisms, especially chromatin modifications and noncoding RNAs (miRNAs, long noncoding RNAs).

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PeerJ Contributions

Reviewed 1

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September 27, 2017

A probe-based qRT-PCR method to profile immunological gene expression in blood of captive beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas)

Ming-An Tsai, I-Hua Chen, Jiann-Hsiung Wang, Shih-Jen Chou, Tsung-Hsien Li, Ming-Yih Leu, Hsiao-Kuan Ho, Wei Cheng Yang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3840 PubMed 28970970