Education and Academic Training

• 2018–2022 PhD student , Center for Systems Neuroscience (ZSN) Hannover, Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology, Hannover Medical School
• 2014–2017 Master of Medicine, Clinical Medicine in the Department of Orthopedics, West China School of Medicine, Sichuan University, Sichuan, China
• 2015 Chinese National Medical Admission
• 2009–2014 Bachelor of Medicine, Clinical Medicine, Nanchang University, Nanchang, China

Research Career

• Since 2022 Research Associate at the Institute of Neuroanatomy and Cell Biology, Hannover Medical School

Research Focus

1. Investigation of peripheral nerve regeneration
2. Differentiation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) into nerve-associated cells (Schwann cells, cortical cells)

Publications

Modified Hyaluronic Acid-Laminin-Hydrogel as Luminal Filler for Clinically Approved Hollow Nerve Guides in a Rat Critical Defect Size Model. Huang Z, Kankowski S, Ertekin E, et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021, 22(12): 6554.

Perspective on Schwann cells derived from induced pluripotent stem cells in peripheral nerve tissue engineering. Huang Z, Powell R, Phillips J B, et al. Cells, 2020, 9(11): 2497.

Culture Conditions for Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Schwann Cells: A Two-Center Study Huang, Z., Powell, R, Kankowski, S., Philips, J.B., Haastert-Talini, K. (2023) . Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2023, 24(6), 5366; doi: 10.3390/ijms24065366