Zhongwei Li * USC Profiles

Zhongwei Li, PhD

Title(s)	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
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Biography

Education and Training

Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California	Postdoc	08/2017	Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China	PhD	07/2012	Molecular Cell Biology
Sichuan University, Chengdu, China	BS	07/2007	Biotechnology

Awards and Honors

Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (ISTIC)	2013	Top 100 Influential Research Articles in China (2012)
Ray Wu Memorial Fund	2012	Ray Wu Prize
Johnson & Johnson	2012	"Johnson & Johnson Asia Outstanding Thesis Award in Bio-tech", 1st Prize
City of Beijing	2012	Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award
Tsinghua University	2012	Outstanding Ph.D. Graduate Award
Tsinghua University	2012	Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award
Sichuan University	2007	Outstanding Undergraduate Award
Sichuan University	2007	Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis Award

Overview

Organ transplantation saves lives. However, the gap between organ supply and organ demand is ever increasing. Kidneys account for more than 80% of the donor organs needed by patients awaiting transplantation. Thus, it is an urgent task to find ways to build transplantable kidneys. My research aims to bridge basic studies of kidney organogenesis and translational applications of stem/progenitor cell-based kidney regeneration and disease modeling, with the long-term goal of rebuilding the kidney. State-of-the-art stem cell technologies and engineering methodologies are combined in my research to achieve these goals.

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Li Z, Araoka T, Belmonte JCI. Gene Editing in 3D Cultured Nephron Progenitor Cell Lines. Methods Mol Biol. 2019; 1926:151-159. PMID: 30742270.

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Yang Y, Liu B, Xu J, Wang J, Wu J, Shi C, Xu Y, Dong J, Wang C, Lai W, Zhu J, Xiong L, Zhu D, Li X, Yang W, Yamauchi T, Sugawara A, Li Z, Sun F, Li X, Li C, He A, Du Y, Wang T, Zhao C, Li H, Chi X, Zhang H, Liu Y, Li C, Duo S, Yin M, Shen H, Belmonte JCI, Deng H. Derivation of Pluripotent Stem Cells with In Vivo Embryonic and Extraembryonic Potency. Cell. 2017 04 06; 169(2):243-257.e25. PMID: 28388409.

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Wang L, Xu X, Cao Y, Li Z, Cheng H, Zhu G, Duan F, Na J, Han JJ, Chen YG. Activin/Smad2-induced Histone H3 Lys-27 Trimethylation (H3K27me3) Reduction Is Crucial to Initiate Mesendoderm Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells. J Biol Chem. 2017 01 27; 292(4):1339-1350. PMID: 27965357.

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Li Z, Araoka T, Wu J, Liao HK, Li M, Lazo M, Zhou B, Sui Y, Wu MZ, Tamura I, Xia Y, Beyret E, Matsusaka T, Pastan I, Rodriguez Esteban C, Guillen I, Guillen P, Campistol JM, Izpisua Belmonte JC. 3D Culture Supports Long-Term Expansion of Mouse and Human Nephrogenic Progenitors. Cell Stem Cell. 2016 10 06; 19(4):516-529. PMID: 27570066.

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Zhu G, Fei T, Li Z, Yan X, Chen YG. Activin Regulates Self-renewal and Differentiation of Trophoblast Stem Cells by Down-regulating the X Chromosome Gene Bcor. J Biol Chem. 2015 Sep 04; 290(36):22019-29. PMID: 26221038.

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Wu J, Okamura D, Li M, Suzuki K, Luo C, Ma L, He Y, Li Z, Benner C, Tamura I, Krause MN, Nery JR, Du T, Zhang Z, Hishida T, Takahashi Y, Aizawa E, Kim NY, Lajara J, Guillen P, Campistol JM, Esteban CR, Ross PJ, Saghatelian A, Ren B, Ecker JR, Izpisua Belmonte JC. An alternative pluripotent state confers interspecies chimaeric competency. Nature. 2015 May 21; 521(7552):316-21. PMID: 25945737.

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Zhang J, Fei T, Li Z, Zhu G, Wang L, Chen YG. BMP induces cochlin expression to facilitate self-renewal and suppress neural differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. J Biol Chem. 2013 Mar 22; 288(12):8053-60. PMID: 23344953.

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Li Z, Huylebroeck D, Chen YG.TGF-ß in Human Disease (Chapter 2). 2013.

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Li Z, Chen YG. Functions of BMP signaling in embryonic stem cell fate determination. Exp Cell Res. 2013 Jan 15; 319(2):113-9. PMID: 23051821.

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Li Z, Chen YG. Fine-tune of intrinsic ERK activity by extrinsic BMP signaling in mouse embryonic stem cells. Protein Cell. 2012 Jun; 3(6):401-4. PMID: 22528752.

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Chen YG, Li Z, Wang XF. Where PI3K/Akt meets Smads: the crosstalk determines human embryonic stem cell fate. Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Mar 02; 10(3):231-2. PMID: 22385648.

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Li Z, Fei T, Zhang J, Zhu G, Wang L, Lu D, Chi X, Teng Y, Hou N, Yang X, Zhang H, Han JD, Chen YG. BMP4 Signaling Acts via dual-specificity phosphatase 9 to control ERK activity in mouse embryonic stem cells. Cell Stem Cell. 2012 Feb 03; 10(2):171-82. PMID: 22305567.

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Fei T, Zhu S, Xia K, Zhang J, Li Z, Han JD, Chen YG. Smad2 mediates Activin/Nodal signaling in mesendoderm differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells. Cell Res. 2010 Dec; 20(12):1306-18. PMID: 21079647.

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Fei T, Xia K, Li Z, Zhou B, Zhu S, Chen H, Zhang J, Chen Z, Xiao H, Han JD, Chen YG. Genome-wide mapping of SMAD target genes reveals the role of BMP signaling in embryonic stem cell fate determination. Genome Res. 2010 Jan; 20(1):36-44. PMID: 19926752.

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