Wangde Dai

Wangde Dai received the M.D. degree from Shanghai Medical University, Shanghai, China, in 1999. For two years, he was a Research Fellow in the Vascular Gene Therapy Laboratory, Department of Surgery/Vascular Division, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, where he is currently a Research Assistant Professor of medicine. In 2002, he joined as a Research Fellow at the Heart Institute, Good Samaritan Hospital, Los Angeles, where he is a Research Scientist. He has been involved in the studies including cell transplantation therapy in the heart and vasculature and development of therapies for limiting myocardial infarct size and protection of cardiac function following coronary artery occlusion in rat and mice myocardial infarction model for the last nine years.