Zheng, Yiyan

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Zheng, Yiyan

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Research Assistant Professor, Center for Translational Science , Office of Research and Economic Development

yiyzheng@fiu.edu

biography

Dr. Yiyan Zheng is Research Assistant Professor in the Robert Stempel College of Public Health and Social Work at Florida International University. He is a member of Society for Neuroscience. Dr. Yiyan Zheng received his M.D. degree in clinic medicine from Fudan University at Shanghai, China. He was a Professionally trained Neurosurgeon at Department of Neurosurgery, Huashan Hospital, Fudan University. He then moved to United States and complete postdoctoral training at Kentucky Spinal Cord Injury Research Center, University of Louisville and University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. He received best postdoctoral fellow research award of University of Texas Health Science Center in 2010 and 2012. Dr. Yiyan Zheng’s research focuses on the animal models of different neurological diseases and their treatments using Human induced pluripotent stem cells transplanting or other approaches and their behavioral recoveries.

selected scholarly works & creative activities

Article
- 2022
  
  Transplantation of Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Neural Progenitor Cells Promotes Forelimb Functional Recovery after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3390/cells11172765 Web of Science: 000851232600001
- 2021
  
  Systematic analysis of purified astrocytes after SCI unveils Zeb2os function during astrogliosis
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2021.108721
- 2020
  
  Reaching and Grasping Training Improves Functional Recovery After Chronic Cervical Spinal Cord Injury. FRONTIERS IN CELLULAR NEUROSCIENCE. 14.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.3389/fncel.2020.00110
- 2018
  
  Apolipoprotein E as a novel therapeutic neuroprotection target after traumatic spinal cord injury. EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY. 299:97-108.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2017.10.014
- 2017
  
  Human neural progenitors derived from integration-free iPSCs for SCI therapy
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.scr.2017.01.004 Web of Science: 000397450700013
- 2017
  
  The systematic analysis of coding and long non-coding RNAs in the sub-chronic and chronic stages of spinal cord injury
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1038/srep41008
- 2016
  
  Response to di-functionalized hyaluronic acid with orthogonal chemistry grafting at independent modification sites in rodent models of neural differentiation and spinal cord injury
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1039/c6tb01906d
- 2013
  
  RNA-Seq Characterization of Spinal Cord Injury Transcriptome in Acute/Subacute Phases: A Resource for Understanding the Pathology at the Systems Level
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072567
- 2013
  
  Apolipoprotein E Mimetic Promotes Functional and Histological Recovery in Lysolecithin-Induced Spinal Cord Demyelination in Mice.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.4172/2155-9562.s12-010
- 2012
  
  Transplantation of D15A-expressing glial-restricted-precursor-derived astrocytes improves anatomical and locomotor recovery after spinal cord injury
  Full Text via DOI: 10.7150/ijbs.5626
- 2012
  
  Cervical central canal occlusion induces noncommunicating syringomyelia. NEUROSURGERY. 71:126-137.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e31824d18ae
- 2011
  
  Effect of heparin following cervical spinal cord injuries in rats. NEUROSURGERY. 69:930-941.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e3182241f3b
- 2011
  
  Inhibitor of DNA binding 2 promotes sensory axonal growth after SCI. EXPERIMENTAL NEUROLOGY. 231:38-44.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2011.05.013
- 2010
  
  Enhanced adenoviral gene delivery to motor and dorsal root ganglion neurons following injection into demyelinated peripheral nerves
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1002/jnr.22394
- 2008
  
  175. The Effect of Prophylactic Use of Heparin in Acute Cervical Spinal Cord Injury
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.spinee.2008.06.211
Conference
- 2017
  
  Validation of a 3DOF Parallel Manipulator for Robotic Forelimb Training with Rats. 1-1.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1109/werob.2017.8383867
Other Scholarly Work
- 2023
  
  Apart and back again: Reestablished neuronal connections restore walking after paralysis. 1559-1560.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.stem.2023.11.003 Web of Science: 001138984700001
Proceedings Paper
- 2008
  
  Spinal cord contusion based on precise vertebral stabilization and tissue displacement measured by combined assessment to discriminate small functional differences. JOURNAL OF NEUROTRAUMA. 1227-1240.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1089/neu.2007.0388
Review
- 2011
  
  Astrocytes from the contused spinal cord inhibit oligodendrocyte differentiation of adult oligodendrocyte precursor cells by increasing the expression of bone morphogenetic proteins. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. 6053-6058.
  Full Text via DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5524-09.2011

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