Yong Li BSM, MD, PhD

Dr. Yong Li, is an Associate Professor within the Department of Pediatric Surgery at the University of Texas, School of Medicine at Houston. He also is appointed as an Associate Professor in the Center Stem Cell for Regenerative Medicine at the Brown Foundation Institute of Molecular Medicine (IMM), UTHealth. Dr. Li accomplished his MD and PhD training in China, and was a general surgeon before he went to London of United Kingdom in 1997. His first research career as a post-doctor fellow trained in Imperial College School of Medicine in UK (1998-1999), and later as a postdoctoral research associate in Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC. He was promoted to a research assistant professor in 2002, assistant professor in 2004 (within tenure track system in 2006), and leaded his research team approach success in the field of stem cell, anti-fibrosis in regeneration medicine.

His publications are as follows:
Mu XD, Bellayr I, Choi YH, Pan HY, Li Y. Regeneration of soft tissue is promoted by MMP1 after digit amputation in mice. PLoS One. 2013;8(3):e59105.
Nozaki M, Ota S, Li Y, Uehare K, Gharaiben B, Fu FF, Huard J. Timing of the administration of suramin treatment after muscle injury. Muscle & Nerve 2012;46(1):70-79.
Lin B, Kim J, Li YX, Pan HY, Carvajal-Vergara X, Salama G, Cheng T, Li Y, Lo CW, Yang L. High purity enrichment of functional cardiac lineage cells from human iPS cells. Circulation Research 2012;95(3):327-335.
Mu XD, Xiang GH, Rathbone CR, Pan HY, Bellayr IH, Walter TJ, Li Y. Slow-adhering stem cells derived from injured skeletal muscle have improved regenerative capacity. American Journal of Pathology 2011;179(2):931-941.
Mu XD, Peng HR, Pan HY, Huard J, Li Y. Study of muscle cell dedifferentiation after skeletal muscle injury of mice with a Cre-Lox system. Plos One. 2011 February 3 ;6(2):e16699, doi:10.1371.
Zhu J, Li Y, Lu A, Gharaibeh B, Ma J, Kobayashi T, Quintero AJ, Huard J. Follistatin improves skeletal muscle healing after injury and disease through an interaction with muscle regeneration, angiogenesis, and fibrosis. American Journal of Pathology 2011;179(2):915-930.
Mu XD, Li Y. Conditional TGF-beta1 treatment increases stem cell-like cell population in myoblasts. Journal of Cellular Molecular Medicine 2011;15(3):679-690.
Mu X, Urso ML, Murrary K, Fu F, Huard J, Li Y. Relaxin regulates MMP expression in myogenic cells and promotes satellite cell activation during muscle dealing of both young and aged mice. American Journal of Pathology 2010;177(5):2399-410.