Xuesong Yang is currently a professor in, Jinan University Medical College, China. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degree in Harbin Medical University, China and then received his doctorate in Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan. After having worked in University of Manchester and University of Dundee University, UK respectively, he took the position in Jinan University Medical College. His research interests contain: 1) exploring embryos as the possible models for stem cell applications on regenerative medicine. 2) the regulations of coordinated signaling pathways on mesoderm and neural crest cell migration during gastrula embryo development. 3) the investigation of gene-regulatory elements on birth defects. 4) medical education researches. So far, he has published 101 SCI scientific papers including Developmental Cell, PNAS, Current Biology and Development, Developmental Biology and Oncogene.

Xuesong Yang is currently a professor in Division of Histology and Embryology, Medical College, Jinan University, China. He received his bachelor’s (MD) in clinical medicine from Harbin Medical University (1984), master’s degree in reproductive physiology from Harbin Medical University Division of Physiology (1987), and then started his overseas study in Japan (1991) after serving as an assistant professor in Harbin Medical University Medical College for two years. He received his doctorate in cell membrane physiology and neurosciences in Tokyo Medical and Dental University School of Medicine, Japan (1997). Next, I had worked on pancreas exocrinology as a postdoctoral research associate in University of Manchester for two years, and then moved to University of Dundee Wellcome Trust Center in 1999. Since then my research has mainly focused on developmental biology, specifically about “FGF, VEGF and PDGF signaling modulating mesoderm cell migration during chick embryo gastrulation”. Part of the work has been published in Developmental Cell, PNAS, Current Biology and Development, Developmental Biology and Oncogene. Since being recruited as a professor in Jinan University Medical School (2008), China, He has been continuing to carry on the aforementioned projects while he also extends his research interest into studying neural crest formation, neural tube formation & heart formation, and vasculogenesis & angiogenesis during embryonic development and corresponding congenital malformations as well as underlying mechanisms in the setting of various external teratogens using mouse and chick embryo models and human samples. Some of research results have already been published as shown in the following publication list.