He got his bachelor degree in biology from Nanjing University, China and his PhD degree from the University of Toledo, USA. Dr. Tian has extensive experiences in biomedical research, especially in the field of uremic cardiomyopathy. His current work is funded with a R01 grant from NIH. Dr. Tian’s laboratory uses partial nephrectomy (PNx) animal model and cell culture system as tools to study the role of Na/K-ATPase in regulating cardiac hypertrophy, fibrosis, apoptosis, and regeneration. He has over 30 research papers published in peer-reviewed prestigious journals. His laboratory had a long-standing interest in deciphering the mechanism of uremic cardiomyopathy.