Associate Chief Physician. Main research directions: basic and clinical applications of cartilage tissue engineering; discovery and reprogramming applications of dermal stem cells, etc. In recent years, he has published multiple papers in academic journals including Journal of Cell Science and BMC Cell Biology, with a total impact factor of 22 and the highest single paper impact factor of nearly 7. He has presided over or participated in National Natural Science Foundation projects with a total funding of more than 1.1 million yuan in recent years:

1. National Natural Science Foundation for Young Scientists (Funding: 300,000 yuan), 2009-2012, Principal Investigator;

2. General Program of National Natural Science Foundation (Funding: 680,000 yuan), 2012-2016, Principal Investigator;

3. 2 projects of Shanghai Natural Science Foundation and bureau-level research projects (Funding: about 150,000 yuan), Principal Investigator;

He holds 2 authorized national invention patents related to dermal stem cells:

1) Culture and application of dermal fibroblast-like cells;

2) Marker membrane protein for purifying and enriching multipotent cells in the dermis;