2001.9 - 2005.7: B.S. in Biological Science, Peking University (Minor in Computer Software) 2005.9 - 2010.7: Ph.D. in Cell Biology, Peking University 2011.2 - 2012.6: Postdoc Research Associate, HHMI / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2012.7 - 2015.6: Research Fellow, HHMI / Harvard Medical School / Boston Children’s Hospital 2015.7 - present: Professor (PI), Medical Research Institute & Zhongnan Hospital at Wuhan University Area of Interest stem cell differentiation; disease modeling; diabetes; pancreas; long noncoding RNA (lncRNA); epigenetic regulation. Publications (First-authored *; corresponding author #): 1. Jie Yang*, Pei Lu*, Mao Li, Chenchao Yan, Tianzhe Zhang, Wei Jiang#. (13 Aug 2020). GATA6-AS1 Regulates GATA6 Expression to Modulate Human Endoderm Differentiation. Stem Cell Reports 15:1-12. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2020.07.014. 2. Jie Yang, Wei Jiang#. (21 July 2020). The Roles of SMAD2/3 in Human Embryonic Stem Cells. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 8:653. DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2020.00653. 3. Yangyang Yu, Wei Jiang#. (16 Jul 2020). Pluripotent Stem Cell Differentiation as an Emerging Model to Study Human Prostate Development. Stem Cell Research & Therapy. 11(1):285. DOI: 10.1186/s13287-020-01801-9. 4. Mengtian Tan, Lai Jiang, Yinglei Li, Wei Jiang#. (1 Dec 2019). Dual inhibition of BMP and WNT signals promotes pancreatic differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells. Stem Cells International. Volume 2019, Article ID 5026793, 15 pages. DOI: 10.1155/2019/5026793 5. Ting Geng, Donghui Zhang, Wei Jiang#. (Nov 2019). Concise Review: Epigenetic Regulation of Transition among Different Pluripotent States. Stem Cells. 37(11):1372–1380. DOI: 10.1002/stem.3064. 6. Yinglei Li, Wei Jiang#. (30 Aug 2019). The path and surface marker of SC-β cells. Science Bulletin. 64(16), 1122-1124. DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2019.06.018. 7. Xiaojuan Su*, Mengtian Tan*, Bo Duan, Jie Cai#, Wei Jiang#, Lina Zhang#. (28 Aug 2019). Hierarchical microspheres with macropores fabricated from chitin as 3D cell culture. Journal of Materials Chemistry B. 7(34), 5190-5198. DOI: 10.1039/c9tb01046g. 8. Wei Jiang#, Yuting Liu, Rui Liu, Kun Zhang, Yi Zhang#. (7 Apr 2015). LncRNA DEANR1 facilitates human endoderm differentiation by activating FOXA2 expression. Cell Reports 11(1), 137–148. DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.03.008. 9. Donghui Zhang#, Wei Jiang#. (28 Feb 2015). From one-cell to tissue: reprogramming, cell differentiation and tissue engineering. Bioscience 65 (5): 468-475. DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv016. 10. Wei Jiang#, Donghui Zhang, Nenad Bursac, Yi Zhang#. (4 Jun 2013). WNT3 is a biomarker capable of predicting definitive endoderm differentiation potential of hESCs. Stem Cell Reports 1 (1), 46-52. DOI: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2013.03.003. 11. Jiang W, Wang J, Zhang Y#. (2013). Histone H3K27me3 demethylases KDM6A and KDM6B modulate definitive endoderm differentiation from human ESCs by regulating WNT signaling pathway. Cell Research 23(1), 122-130. 12. Jiang W*, Sui X*, Zhang D, Liu M, Ding M, Shi Y#, Deng H#. (2011). CD24: A novel surface marker for PDX1-positive pancreatic progenitors derived from human embryonic stem cells. Stem Cells 29(4):609-617. 13. Zhang D*, Jiang W*, Liu M, Sui X, Yin X, Chen S, Shi Y, Deng H#. (2009). Highly efficient differentiation of human ES cells and iPS cells into mature pancreatic insulin-producing cells. Cell Research 19(4):429-438. 14. Jiang W*, Bai Z*, Zhang D, Shi Y, Yong J, Chen S, Ding M, Deng H#. (2008). Differentiation of mouse nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells into functional pancreatic beta cells. Diabetologia 51:1671-1679. 15. Jiang W*, Shi Y*, Zhao D, Chen S, Yong J, Zhang J, Qing T, Sun X, Zhang P, Ding M, Li D#, Deng H#. (2007). In vitro derivation of functional insulin-producing cells from human embryonic stem cells. Cell Research 17:333-344.