Prof. Jiaqian Wu earned her doctorate from Baylor College of Medicine where she led the NIH Mammalian Gene Collection effort. Her postdoctoral training was at Yale and Stanford University. She joined the University of Texas McGovern Medical School at Houston in 2011. Currently, she holds the UTHealth Houston Distinguished Professorship. Her research focuses on neurodegeneration and regeneration in Neurotrauma and Neurodegenerative Disease, and her publications have been cited more than 25000 times.Dr. Wu’s work has been recognized with prestigious honors, including the NIH Pathway to Independence (PI) Award (K99/R00), and the Senator Lloyd and B.A. Bentsen Investigator Award etc.