Jiaxin Gao obtained his PhD from Beijing Normal University. He joined Yue Wang’s lab at A*STAR IMCB as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 2019 and moved to A*STAR IDL with Wang in 2022. Since then, his work has focused on the emerging 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 Foundation of China in 2022 and established his own laboratory at the Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2023.
