Researcher

Jiaxin Gao

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB)

Jiaxin Gao obtained his PhD from Beijing Normal University. He joined Wang Yue’s lab at IMCB as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2019. Since then, his work has focused on a newly merged fungal pathogen, Candida auris, to provide new insight into fungal pathogenesis and antifungal resistance using functional genomic screens. He received the Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas) from the National Natural Science Fund of China in 2022 and will establish his own laboratory at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023.

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