Neurosurgery Department, UF College of Medicine
Tong Zheng, PhD.
Special Interests:
Neural Stem Cell Therapies
Brain Repair
Tong Zheng, MD, PhD, received her M.D. degree from Hunan Medical College in Hunan, China, in 1992. She received her Ph.D. in Neurobiology, from University of Tennessee, Memphis in 2000. She then joined Dr. Dennis Steindler’s lab as a post-doctoral fellow at University of Tennessee, Memphis. After moving to University of Florida with the lab in 2001, she joined the faculty of the Department of Neuroscience in 2004, and the faculty of the Department of Neurosurgery in March of 2011.
Dr. Zheng’s major research interest is the characterization of postnatal and adult sources of transplantable stem cells that may eventually be appropriate as therapeutics for neurological injury and disease. She is also interested in approaches that would enhance the survival, differentiation and migration of the grafted cells-including homing factors, biomaterial scaffolding, and growth factors. Her current research also involves the use of live cell tracking and novel imaging approaches to track stem cell’s growth, migration and differentiation both in vitro and in vivo.
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